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☆ Why there are more 'iconic' giant sequoias in Britain than California, where they are under threat
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Giant sequoias are thriving in the UK, scientists say. AdvertisementGiant sequoias, some of the largest trees on Earth, are suffering in their native California due to threats from wildfires and climate-change-fueled droughts. But that's in part down to their youth, with the oldest giant sequoia in the UK dating to 1863, UCL said in its report. By contrast, the oldest known giant sequoia in the US reached 3,266 years old, according to the National Park Service. UCL said giant sequoias "can potentially pull an average of 85 kilograms of carbon out of the atmosphere per year."

Persons: —, Mathias Disney Organizations: Service, Royal Society, University College London, UCL, Reuters, Disney, National Park Service Locations: California, Britain, Victorian Britain, Sierra Nevada, sequoia

☆ Why America is panicking about shoplifting
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Ally Hill | Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

New York CNN —“Shoplifting in Great Department Stores.” “The Shoplifting Profession.” “No Mercy to Shoplifters.”These headlines could be from articles today. While shoplifting has seemingly never been a bigger problem than it is now, shoplifting has long captured the public’s attention. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty ImagesAlthough shoplifting increased in some cities during the first half of the year compared to pre-pandemic levels, there is no clear national rise in shoplifting, according to a new analysis by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan criminal justice policy organization. Middle-class women shoplifting in Victorian Britain during the 1800s were the focus of an early panic over shoplifting. Fears spread over middle-class women shoplifting during the early years of department stores.

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☆ Opinion | Why Is Swearing So Much Fun?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Rebecca Roache | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Swearing can be so satisfying that it can help us withstand pain. As the linguists Keith Allan and Kate Burridge put it, the harmfulness of taboos “contaminates” certain words that refer to them, making those related words taboo, too. In prudish Victorian Britain, extremely lewd street names that had existed unproblematically throughout the country in the Middle Ages were bowdlerized. And in increasingly secular cultures the taboo around religious-themed words has waned. Consider, as Professors Allan and Burridge do, spilling salt, which was once both expensive and spiritually significant.

Persons: What’s, Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, ” Rhett Butler’s, Allan, Burridge Locations: Britain

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