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Pantry moths are having sex on your food

Pantry moths never seemed to appear in my mother’s kitchen, years ago, like they do in our kitchen today. Sure, you saw weevils very occasionally, but the regular infestations of pantry moths that we experience these days are not a thing I recall from my childhood. I’m presuming you know about pantry moths because they seem a common feature in many households. They are small, nondescript-looking moths of a dull brownish-grey colour that fly out of the pantry when you open the door. Left to their own devices they will mate and lay eggs in whatever…

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The Ocean is Broken: the story behind the story, and a sequel of sorts

In September 2013, while working at The Newcastle Herald in NSW, Australia, I read an item in our paper about a yachtsman visiting Newcastle Harbour. The sailor, Ivan Macfadyen, noted in the brief article his shock and surprise at the state of the North Pacific Ocean after a recent voyage. The article grabbed my attention, so I found Ivan's contact details and asked him if I could do a follow-up interview. He accepted, and told me a little more about the experience that led to his comments. The reported remarks had followed his second Sydney-to-Osaka yacht…

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Another thing coming, I think . . .

I was at work at the newspaper doing what journalists do - minding everybody else’s business - when this question came up: If you think somebody thinks a thing and you think the thing they are thinking is wrong, do you think you should say something? More particularly, if you did think of saying something about the thing you think they are thinking, which of the following things do you think you would choose? A: “If you think that, then you have another think coming?” or B: “If you think that, then you have another thing…

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