Two tweets from Stephen Fry in Malaysia (he says he's here):
Tragedy is sharks fin is completely tasteless - soup has to be flavoured with chicken stock. Such a shame.
about 9 hours ago
150 million sharks killed a year. It's devastation. Almost entirely for the fins. Chinese weddings traditionally serve the soup.
about 9 hours ago
(Closer to home: this blogger is tweeting Salome in Birmingham this evening with Erika Sunnegårdh as Salome. The tweets will appear here. A piece about tweeting Mozart appears here.)
Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
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The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to
valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have
been key...
4 hours ago
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