Jane Goodall Died On This Day in 2025

In July,1960 Jane Goodall arrived by boat at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika with her mother−local officials would not allow Jane to stay at Gombe without an escort−and a cook, Dominic.

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Trash Clock

Artist Niklas Roy made this "Trash Clock"  using only objects and materials he could find, including tape, cable ties, hot glue, cardboard, a folding ruler, pieces of plastic, and other random items. 

Since the mechanism runs for just half an hour, it only displays seconds and minutes, striking a gong whenever the minute hand reaches the 12 o’clock position.

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Artwork Of The Day

Rome, from Mount Aventine (above) was painted in 1836, and is one of the few major late works by J.M.W. Turner still in private hands.

The painting is expected to fetch as much as £50 million at a forthcoming sale at Sotheby’s in London. It will go on display at the auction house’s location on Bond Street from Friday 9th to Thursday 15th October 2026.

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How Beavers Reshape The Landscape

 If a habitat doesn’t suit them they just fix it so it does.

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Elsinore Trailer

 I would love to see this film but unfortunately it is not playing in a theatre near me.

Reflections On a Lifetime Of Dental Drama

“In photographs from my childhood I am often sporting wide, toothy smiles. Guileless grins. It seems I was—despite the complications of divorce, alcoholism, and mental illness in my family—a happy kid. But by my teens I began to develop a sort of tight-lipped, toothless grin. I could feel myself consciously pulling my upper lip tight against my teeth, my tongue poking at the back of my fake, discolored front tooth.


When I attended summer camp in the early 1980s, there was no long journey north from some hot city. No slow drive down a narrow dirt road through a tunnel of tall pines. No tearful goodbye as my parents dropped me off with a duffle bag of jeans and T-shirts, swim trunks and a towel, then drove away. I was a local kid, a poor year-rounder in Maine. “Summer camp” meant my small town’s daily parks-and-rec program on the grounds of my elementary school, which was across the street from the dilapidated house my unstable mother rented with her alcoholic boyfriend. For me, there was only waking to an empty house, making myself breakfast, then crossing the road.”

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Digi Digi Dance

 

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He Was Probably Asking For It

Receiving abusive emails? If you were using a coquettish font like Helvetica you probably brought it on yourself.

 

  

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From Spray Bottle To Trashbot

CWLbuilds turns a bit of trash into an adorable little robot.

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Otters

 

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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— In Otter News (@in-otter-news.bsky.social) September 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM