Highlight of the morning. Finding Cornwall’s third oldest oak. The excitement never stops.

The hobbits have arrived to sort out the bins in Birmingham

🇩🇪 Germany shut down nuclear. 🇫🇷 France kept nuclear. Now: 🇩🇪 Germany buys nuclear from France. 🇫🇷 France has some of the lowest emissions in Europe. 🇫🇷 FRANCE: 38g CO₂/kWh 🟢 🇩🇪 GERMANY: 411g CO₂/kWh 🔴 Nuclear isn't the problem. Bad energy policy is.

None of these farms exist All are works of fiction by Tesco supermarkets This #FarmWashing practice should be made illegal, it deceives consumers and makes nonsense of Red Tractor traceability Food labelling should be clear, country of origin should be clear

Flying into JFK over Long Island.

Getting ready to take the train from Penn station to Princeton Jn. It’s a crush on Sunday!

Many thanks to the excellent DOE ⁦⁦⁦⁦PPPL⁩ for showing me some fantastic big stuff eg FLARE and letting me talk about modelling materials for nuclear energy.

Back at Los Alamos to attend the retirement seminars day celebration for my decades collaborator Kurt Sickafus. Need to tell him about a new idea… you can check out any time you like but you can never leave!

Hiking in the Jemez

BREAKING: The CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister of Sweden. The first thing he'll do is to assemble his cabinet.

Great day developing ideas around the UK fission materials workshop Henry Royce Institute in Manchester. United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory

Cactus in bloom

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Except that Scientists generally don't answer "why" questions. Go read some Karl Popper.

I wonder if he can claim salvage? bbc.com/news/articles/…

Walk from Bath to Midford hope &anchor. Now on to Pack Hourse SouthStoke. Fabulous afternoon.

Marblous pub.

Typical terrible advert statistics, this time by ⁦Boots⁩ though at least they bothered to state the sample size. How many stats problems can you spot?

Any idea what this giant might be? Killed near Bath.

You know you’re in Totnes Devon when the shops gave names like this.

The unvaccinated made up a minority of the adult population every month of the pandemic. And every month they made up a majority of the deaths. But that's a coincidence across millions of data points, for multiple years, in multiple countries... right?