This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Friday, 8 September 2023
Paranoid?
A word of explanation to readers (if there are currently any out there). Yesterday, I experienced great difficulty accessing my blog to make a post. I later found that professorpbrainsblog.blogspot.com had been blocked by my computer's driver, following a report from some shadowy organisation. I've reported this as a 'mistake' and await to see the outcome. I am an elderly academic (although 'retired', I still do a little teaching). My blog very much reflects my interests and I've always made it clear that the opinions expressed are my own. I've never been a member of a political party or any campaign group (to quote Groucho Marx 'I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member'). I accept that I have my biases (we all do) but try to stay within the science. The blog isn't used for commercial gain (it's not 'monitorised' with advertisements) as I have the somewhat weird idea that my opinions are my opinions- they are not there to make cash. So, if my views on artificial intelligence, biodiversity, climate change, diet, education, evolution, media, non-renewable sources of energy, pandemics, polluters, privatised water companies, religion, re-wilding, vaccinations, weight loss-injections etc. have upset anyone, I apologise. They are, however, only my opinions. I suppose, when the reads approach three quarters of a million, people start to see you as a mini 'opinion maker' (whatever that is). Hopefully, normal service will be resumed shortly and I can carry on pontificating. Thanks for reading.
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Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.
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After a worrying 36 hours the blog was restored with no word of explanation. At least it's back!
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