Nature 826

02/21/2024

08/24/2023

"They were competing with urbanisation," said Laird. "Towards the end of the 19th Century, [golfers] had to leave. Partly because there wasn't enough space for 18 holes, but partly because there were too many incidents involving golf balls hitting ordinary people. There were outcries about accidents."

08/24/2023

According to Lauren Beatty, a PhD student at Glasgow Caledonian University researching mid-20th-Century women's club golf in Scotland, the earliest written reference of women officially playing golf also comes from those years in Bruntsfield. In April 1738, two women were reported by the Caledonian Mercury newspaper as playing a match on the links, with their husbands acting as caddies. Nothing is known of the players except that the winner is named in the paper as "charming Sally".

08/24/2023

A True Dog-Lover won't ignore this

08/20/2023

I was standing in Shute's Lane, one of the most famous of the sunken paths known as "holloways" that riddle the southern English county of Dorset.

08/18/2023

Today, the churches remain a major place of pilgrimage for Ethiopia's Christians. They're also a Unesco World Heritage site, and international travellers flock here to see one of Africa's most extraordinary historical spots.

08/16/2023

Thwaites is currently disappearing eight times as fast as it was in the 1990s, dumping 80 billion tonnes of ice into the ocean every year and accounting for 4% of the planet's annual sea level rise. Because of its colossal size and alarming collapse, this remote ice cap is not only considered one of the scariest places on Earth, but also one of the most important: the frozen ground zero in the global fight against climate change. Were Thwaites to completely melt, it could raise sea levels by 10ft or more, triggering "spine-chilling" global implications.