A guided canal cruise through/below the city of 's Hertogenbosch (= the Duke’s Forest).
During the cruise the guide talks about the ~900 year history of the canals and the city.
(in Dutch with English subtitles available)
This is also the city where the 2027 EGC may be held (to be decided by the EGF AGM during the 2025 EGC), so in case you participate, you could make this cruise yourself.
A hilarious follow-up to the preceding post:
This is the place to share relaxing and thought-provoking videos?
Lots and lots of them there, but also exciting ones, boring ones … but mostly old ones:
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This video is not only about Japan. It also drifts off into antiquity (Alexander the Great vs Diogenes), philosophy and the human condition.
Relevant to the Ofcom stuff
Unfortunately I don’t have the time and patience to watch through that video … do they mention that it might kill off friendly bacteria of our (and other animals’) microbiome?
That’s something our governments and agriculture departments etc. don’t really think about … they test direct lethality, but cannot or simply don’t check all the side effects pesticides (etc.) can have.
For example (and IIRC) they tested neonicotinoids for direct lethality on bees, and as it didn’t kill individual honeybees, they allowed it. But then it was found that it apparently caused the bees to lose their internal map of the world, so (IIRC) those pesticides based on neonicotinoids killed bee populations because the bees didn’t find their way back home.
So, back to Glyphosate … if it really kills our microbiome, we might not find out about it in time because the clinical picture might be quite blurry. The Roman lead poisoning theory comes to mind, even if it is debated.
They mention that between 42:18 and 42:40.
As @jlt pointed out, it can disrupt gut microbiome, also that in itself, glyphosate has genotoxicity (around 42:00). And they knew it can cause tumors in mice way before it was approved by EPA in their own toxicity research, and they was asked to provide more studies, until 1990s, when they bribed the EPA to drop it and approved it. And the lawsuits that won against Monsanto were all about cancer cases caused by it (the class action lawsuits have like 3000+ people as a group).
The successor corporation of Monsanto still denied its toxicity to this day, but they stopped adding glyphosate in their own product, because many weeds and plants already evolved immunity to it due to its overuse over the decades, and stopped being effective nowadays.
I’ve helped translate some ancient Chinese medicinal texts (collectively known as 本草) in the past, and pangolins have been known as “ingredients” as far back from the Han dynasty (around the 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE) texts as 鯪鯉甲 in 名醫別錄, till the 16th century famous medicinal book 本草綱目. The amount of historical and cultural inheritance can not be easily disassociated, but at the same time, it definitely should change.
Today I found out that ají means chili pepper in South America. So all of our games can be pretty spicy.
There are two threads where posting these these might have been appropriate also, maybe even more so because it was topic there already, but both are in the Lounge, which is visible only to forum members who engage a lot here, and I wanted these videos to be seen by everyone.
Dr. Jane Goodall (3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025) remains one of my all-time heroines, not only for her work with chimpanzees but for how she changed our view of non-human animals forever … to non-human persons.
I always had that question… very good explanation indeed. Old style programs really did know how to deliver 
