
Derek (Del) Pickard
@delpickard
Microbiologist! I keenly ‘follow’ evolution from 3.5 billion years ago to the Burgess Shale era. 'Liberal' but not of the orthodox kind and so no affiliations!
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07-06-2011 12:28:20
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Sebastião Salgado port-magazine.com/sustainability… Sebastião Salgado, the magnificent Brazilian Photographer died yesterday. Like Ansel Adams, his images will be an impressive monument to the beauty and fragility of the beauty of the Earth, but also the ferocity of Human destructiveness..

Sebastião Salgado’s renowned photography on the immense beauty and fragile ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest. aestheticamagazine.com/?p=590039 via Aesthetica Magazine A further article on the legacy that Sebastião Salgado left behind in his beautiful dramatic Black and White images.




12 killed after latest Russian aerial strike on Ukraine independent.co.uk/news/world/eur… Russia has become a nation that only exists to conquer, its Culture smeared by the blood of those who it has massacred and the Cities it has destroyed. Russia descends deep into the Cesspit of History

🎸 Rock History 🎸 I recall Sultans of Swing suddenly emerge from nowhere. It seemed like a conveyor belt of fine new groups would always be there. In 1975 it was Bruce Springsteen with Born to Run (Roger Scott of Capital Radio loved Born to Run- what a fine DJ he was). Now stagnation and silence..