After-Orts #108
I feel I've just been beaten up by two terribly intelligent people.
-- Eduard Hanslick, after hearing Brahms and a colleague play a piano-four-hands version of the opening movement of Brahms' fourth symphony
from the news-from-all-over department, a fascinating tale of feral swine:
“Wild pigs are easily the worst invasive large mammal on the planet”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar
[ed.note: surely the headline should read "... the worst invasive large mammal on the planet after humans."]
The U.S. is one of just seven countries in the world that does not guarantee paid maternity leave. The others are all small Pacific island nations: Micronesia (includes the Marshall Islands, Nauru, and Palau), Papua New Guinea, and Tonga.
-- https://www.axios.com/2023/02/28/majority-of-countries-guarantee-paid-paternity-leave-but-not-the-us