As someone with reservations from an ethical perspective that have precisely nothing to do with anyone's sky daddy, I resent your implication that opposition is anti-science. There is an article in Nature linked at the top of the page presumably written by those who also have concerns that have nothing to do with…

I think that's grossly oversimplistic. The reasons for abortion are wildly different from the ones for modifying.

I've been wanting to have this discussion, and I see it as ongoing. I think there are valid reasons to edit the germ line, but there are also reasons that stink of socially authoritarian eugenics. To try to claim that those of us with reservations didn't want to have a debate is disingenuous at best.

I can see why, in an intellectual sense. Most of the local geology centres on the Carboniferous (coal measures, limestone, volcanic plugs, for example, which have all influenced the human history), but the glaciers and a reasonably impressive river have given it a good going over since.

Please can we have a moratorium on this while we thrash out the ethics, and decide what we can and can't - and should and shouldn't - be doing?

Thanks. I live in a landscape of endless geological fascination (there are drumlins scattered around locally, for example), and it's a subject in some ways I regret not being able to become properly geeky about, but I still like to try to have some grasp of what I'm looking at.

On the subject of Norway's stone rings, this reminded me of the stone stripes found at the Keen of Hamar on Unst.

You forgot one:

For those who are a bit sick of further intrusion into their private lives, here is a DIY solution to the proliferation of these things.

“There’s no sense in getting killed by a plant!”

Indeed. I can still do geek stuff at 4am, but reading comprehension can sometimes slip.

You have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

Try Washington.

UK.

Carrion crow v raven is fairly straightforward in the field, as they have different shaped tails and very different calls. This might help: it only covers British Isles corvids, but will help you with crows and ravens. With a photo like that one you need to look at the size and shape of the bill. The raven's bill is…

Before someone gets really pedantic, the Poecile genus has 13-15 species (depending on which avian taxonomist you ask), several of which are found in Europe and/or Asia, but only those found in North America are called chickadees. The others are all known, in English at least, as tits.

With or without a coconut?

We call them tits where I come from.

I've spent a total of about 6 weeks of my life in North America.

I admit to being interested in why that is. I mean, Scotland (and just about everywhere else) in the middle of the 18th Century was a violent place. That doesn't mean I want to emulate it.