To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday this morning - if indeed it is his birthday today - Radio 3 plays the scherzo from Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night’s Dream' and Arne's 'When Daisies Pied', sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
The song is another addition to cuckoo music (blogged here) and the verse from Love's Labour's Lost is one of the many references to the natural world in Shakespeare that sounds increasingly elegiac.
The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy
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This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler
When people debate the cost of fossil fuels versus renewables, the
conversation almost always ...
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