Showing posts with label bbc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bbc. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2019

Do sharks attack humans for a reason?


 "The more sharks and people there are in one place, the greater the chance of them bumping into each other," [said Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research].

This seems like an obvious point, but when you look closer at where attacks are taking place there are some clues as to what might be going on. The large human populations along the southern coast of Australia and the eastern coast of the US mean large numbers of people enjoying the water. But southern Australia has also seen rising numbers of fur seals along its coastline, the favourite prey of great white sharks in the region.
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[Seal seal populations off Cape Cod on the coast of Massachusetts in the US have rebounded in recent years]...[which has]...led to increased numbers of great whites in the area too during the warm summer months as they look to feast on the seals[.]
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...there is no real evidence that sharks are actively hunting humans, according to the scientists who study them.
Unless they're the sharks in the Sharknado series. And the Land Shark . They are out to attack and eat us.

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Milk, in reusable glass bottles? Delivered to...homes?

Eco-Friendly, too? How didn't anyone think of this before?

BBC: More demand for deliveries of milk in glass bottles.
Luckett's Dairy, in Coventry, says its delivery business is rocketing, with new customers wanting to cut down on plastic waste by having re-usable glass bottles delivered.
Hit the BBC link, watch the video.

No Riders!

Saturday, March 30, 2019

BBC Director General whines over label "mainstream" and why Teh News not trusted.

No one wants to play in The Empty Sandbox belonging to the whiney-assed kid.

RT: BBC director whines over label "mainstream".
A speech given by the head of the BBC pouting over the "abusive" term "mainstream media" misses the point entirely, media analyst Lionel told RT.
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Rather than complain about "people of all political persuasions" pointing out the system's flaws, he said, BBC director general Tony Hall and others like him would do well to look in the mirror to understand how "traditional journalism" came to be seen as "part of the problem rather than the solution."

Monday, February 11, 2019

BBC Reports U.S. Shutdown Avoided

BBC: Breaking...U.S. avoids shutdown.
4 minutes ago

Democrats and Republicans reach agreement in principle to fund the US government and avert another partial shutdown.

This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
I guess stay tuned to the BBC link. I didn't see any other news org reporting this; so far.

UPDATE - Global NewsBorder security funding reached "in principle."
February 11, 2019 8:57 pm

U.S. Republican Senator Richard Shelby, one of the congressional negotiators working on border security funding, said late on Monday that an “agreement in principle” had been reached.