It's Always More Complicated

(No, I'm not going to post J Jones drooling over the Renoir exhibition.... enuff is enuff.)

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Capybara on the lam: Six months ago, Samba made a brave, unprecedented escape from Marwell zoo. Her life on the lam continues today. You would think that it would be easy to find something the size of a capybara in the English countryside, but will refer to the coypu that escaped from fur farms and went feral in the Norfolk Broads and were a massive problem.

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This is a fascinating approach to the topic: Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity:

Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressing climate and public health crises effectively. A social-ecological explanation has been suggested for the phenomenon, in which motonormativity is shaped by people’s environments, but this has not been tested.

Most of the puzzles that historians are interested in have no perfect resolution. Most of them were not authored by anyone and few of them have one single, correct solution - 'I have gathered you together in the library to tell you that It's All More Complicated and further research is required....'

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Why so many Italians are getting Belgian nationality - the nightmare of Italian bureaucracy seems to factor in somewhere, not to mention rise of a far-right government, though apparently there was already a large Italian community there, who'd a thought.

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I'm really looking forward to the book on Katharine Bement Davis mentioned here - came across her either during my PhD or my Stella Browne research (she was a massive fan).

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Julian Eltinge, America’s Greatest Female Impersonator - I was already aware of Eltinge - features in one of Robertson Davies' novels as I recall and maybe came across in other texts? This sounds interesting.