George Miller Beard (1839 – 1883) associated the condition with "exhaustion of the central nervous system's energy reserves". He attributed the condition to civilization. Was he wrong?

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Perfect: "Together, the pair looked uncannily like the duo you don’t want to see at the end of your hospital bed." washingtonpost.com/style/202…

EXCLUSIVE: Labour MP calling for return of compulsory military service chairs parliamentary group bankrolled by IDF-linked weapons manufacturers. New research shows that Armed Forces APPG has taken £525,000 from TEN firms that supply the Israeli military. Here’s what I found:🧵

Dear humans, don’t spend the Winter Alone: Our 3-Month Camp for Creative Humans Starts 9 Nov both on- and off- line! Join us! schoolofma.org/programs/p/fa…

I've written a new essay on bacterial protein manufacture: gmwatch.org/en/latest-news/2… It invites George Monbiot to go beyond the invective & answer points of substance about this problematic tech. More background here chrissmaje.com/2026/11/how-n…

"Designing for Life: Food as Medicine at a Bioregional Scale" - my talk @IEGD_CSIC in Madrid , 25 November.

You have to love how the line "This is almost certainly the largest theft of any kind in history” is the fifth last line in the whole story. ft.com/content/c7f5e395-c3a9… via @ft

Softbank down 48% in a few months. "Global tech rout deepens as US earnings stoke AI spending fears" ft.com/content/3ba953ae-84bb…

"I oppose legal controls of (tech ) teenagers because adults are trying to cope with the guilt about their own failings." made-not-found-by-danah-boyd…

Is this a sequel to 'The Value of a Whale'? Find out from Elle Adams (Findhorn, Nairn and Lossie Rivers Trust) who's a keynote in the splendid surroundings of The Royal Geographical Society, London, on Thursday 19 November. eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-than…

These social enterprise guys in Australia produce stone-milled flour using ancient grains harvested locally for 60,000 years. Now, they could use our help to expand their space. Over to you. chuffed.org/project/yaamarra…

Got this? New EU EmpCo rule bans 'vague' claims that x is (for example) 'regenerative' - but remains vague on what regenerative *does* mean. Nice pic, though. foodnavigator.com/Article/20…

"We don’t need to imagine computers trying to exterminate us: right now, our cars compel us to provide more and more of the oil that’s heating the planet" . Excellent journalism here by @Jeff_Sparrow theconversation.com/friday-e…

nuclear revival faces scrutiny after "incidents" at flagship plant = a contractor fell into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods nearly tipped over during refuelling ft.com/content/bcc464cc-9d12… @alastairmci

Économie circulaire : un nécessaire recadrage critique institut-rousseau.fr/publica… via @InstitRousseau

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