Heather Scott

“Where your fear is, there your task is.” — Carl Jung

A teacher in Guizhou, China, felt unwell during class. Her students followed and caught her just before she collapsed

Don’t confuse life expectancy with quality of life. The healthcare system excels at keeping people alive. But some are 60 with a foot in the grave while others are 80 with many good years still ahead. The quality of your final decade is determined by choices you make today.

Did you know we find birdsong relaxing because our brains associate it with safety since birds stop singing when predators are near? On top of this, their songs are particularly pleasant to your ear also because of the striking similarities between theirs and human music.

Please read because the stats are stark! The UK ranks 189th out of 240 countries and territories for how intact its nature and biodiversity remain.👇 Can a country truly claim to be a global climate leader while its own nature crumbles? Paul de Zylva, Friends of the Earth’s Senior Nature Analyst, investigates the gap between the UK’s green rhetoric and the grim reality of its biodiversity collapse. Britain’s natural wealth is in ruins, and as the 2030 deadline approaches, here’s what we need to do to reverse the damage. The United Kingdom prides itself on being a green and pleasant land, a nation synonymous with rolling countryside, abundant wildlife, and environmental stewardship. Yet beneath this postcard-perfect image lies a startling reality: the UK is now one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries. According to the Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index, the UK ranks 189th out of 240 countries and territories for how intact its nature and biodiversity remain. Just 53% of the UK’s original nature is left intact - far below the Index’s safe limit of 90% and the global average of 79%. Each of the four UK nations sits near the bottom of this ranking, with England at 47%, Northern Ireland at 50%, Wales at 51%, and Scotland at 56%. As the 2030 deadline approaches (the UK government's legally binding statutory targets under the Environment Act 2021), the question is no longer whether the UK is failing nature: it’s whether there’s still time to turn the tide. The data tells a story that no amount of green rhetoric can obscure. Across nearly two decades of monitoring, the UK's biodiversity has shown stubborn stagnation at best and outright decline at worst. The UK government tracks approximately 50 different biodiversity indicators. The 2025 results paint a troubling picture. Indicators still heading in the wrong direction include: •Condition of important habitats •Abundance and distribution of wild species •Size of fish in the North Sea •Status of pollinating insects (bees, hoverflies, moths) •Bird numbers on farmland and in woodlands policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/insight/how-br…

A 400 year old garden maze in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, circa. 1625.

'This is not a tick box exercise. This is a genuine consultation where we want to make sure that what we set out further, really does work' - @bphillipsonMP We want your views to help shape the biggest overhaul of the SEND system in over a decade. Get involved now: consult.education.gov.uk/send-reform/

Before the Sovereign's arrival at Parliament, the royal bodyguards, officially known as the Yeomen of the Guard, ceremonially search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster. They are led in the procession by a member of parliamentary staff carrying a key to the cellars. The search dates back over 420 years to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Today, the search begins in the Prince’s Chamber before moving into the @UKHouseofLords Chamber.

One of the things the UK government could do is introduce legislation that farm produce cannot be bought for less than it cost to produce it. Farmers need a guarantee of a minimum profit rate on their produce. 🤔😃

BREAKING: Australia has CANCELLED the 91-story Trump Tower they planned to build. The local developer saying the Trump brand has become “toxic". “Let’s just say that with the Iran war and everything else, the Trump brand was increasingly unpopular in Australia,” David Young, CEO of Altus Property Group, told CNN in a statement.

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying that he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation? Rep. Jamie Raskin: I was surprised to hear that because I always thought he was so concerned with how working-class Americans were doing in his wretched economy. I thought he woke up every day wondering how people are going to pay for their groceries and their rent. The guy has made over a billion since he got into office. He doesn’t view the government as an instrument of wellbeing for the people; he views it as an instrument for private self-enrichment and corruption. I appreciate the fact that he has a condition that causes him to blurt out the truth on occasion.

I’m just here to bring some smiles and positivity on your timeline.. 😊 You’re welcome.. Share a picture and the name of your beloving pet(s) in the comments for more smiles.. Thanks 🙏❤️

"Russia started this war, Russia continues this war, and Russia can end this war today by withdrawing its forces and respecting Ukraine's sovereignty. The responsibility lies fully with the aggressor." - Kaja Kallas - EU diplomat Absolutely correct, I couldn't agree more...

A year and a half into @UKLabour's education tax: 65k children have had their education disrupted. The government predicted 37k "long-term". 105 schools have closed. Labour said there was no evidence any would shut. The policy that was supposed to raise money. It is now a cost

There’s something wrong with this letter from one of my former 7th grade students: “I’m going to be honest, I was really bad at math up until this year. I mean, I didn’t even understand multiplication in fifth grade. That’s saying a lot, considering this year I’m doing insane things like graphing, finding medians, and even scientific notations. I’ll go home and try to teach my dad some things that I’ll find simple, like box plots. He won’t understand any of it then I’ll sit there all confused because of how easy I think it is. You’ve taught me so much and I’m so appreciative of that.” What’s wrong with it? I didn’t teach her at all that year, not even once. She completely taught herself, day after day, with pencil and paper, and not a screen in sight. That was the year I first put my You Teach You math method to the test in the classroom, and she used the “examples for everything,” the related practice problems, and the fully-completed answer key on the back of each page to master even the trickiest concepts in the 7th grade curriculum, and to pull herself up from “Partially Proficient” at the beginning of the year to “Advanced Proficient” and into Algebra I the next. (I was available to her at all times of course—in the role of what I call “the sage at the side”—but she only asked for help once, and figured out her own mistake before I managed to get to the end of my explanation.) People here on eduTwitter tend to be skeptical of the idea of students teaching themselves math—and they're right to be. I wasn’t sure the materials could do it without me either! But that year, student after student after student—132 in all—showed me otherwise. And why shouldn’t they be able to? Kids learn to speak by hearing example after example and trying out their theories with feedback from the environment. Math is no different. The brain doesn't need to be told the rules before it can learn them—it needs examples clear enough to see the pattern, and feedback immediate enough to correct the theory. The full k-8 series I developed since then gives students both: a visual example for every single concept and a feedback loop that closes in seconds, not days. That's not a new idea. It's how human beings learn everything. And now it's how anyone can learn math. Learn more at YouTeachYou.org

“Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing whether to say it or not.”

Our purpose is simple - to love. To love each other To love all life And to love our earth. Anthony Douglas Williams