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2 People Escape Coronavirus Quarantine; How You Can Help Bees by Not Mowing and ‘Lord of the Rings’ Was Written Out of Procrastination.
Two people who escaped their 14-day, government-imposed quarantines in Hong Kong are now facing arrest as police try to locate them.
Health minister Sophia Chan Siu-chee said that nine people have left their designated premises so far, with two of them yet to be found.
“I have to remind these people, violating the quarantine order is a criminal offense,” said Chan.
Since Saturday, Chan said that 1,193 people, 1,066 of them Hong Kong residents, have been issued quarantine orders. 20 were sent to government quarantine facilities, 35 were sent to hotels and most were confined to their homes.
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As bees start to come out of hibernation, they’re going to need our help. One way you can do this is by not mowing any dandelions you see in your yard.
The new president of the British Ecological Society, Professor Jane Memmott, suggests leaving dandelions alone. Dandelions provide a valuable food source for bees and other pollinators when they first start coming out of hibernation.
“If dandelions were rare, people would be fighting over them. Because they’re common, people pull them out and spray them off and all sorts of horrible things. Just let them flower,” said Memmott.
She also advises against planting too many ‘pompom shaped’ flowers, such as dahlia and old English roses. These flowers provide very little pollen or nectar.
“As a rule, if you can see the pollen and nectar parts of a flower without pulling back petals, then it’s okay for pollinators,” she said.
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John M. Bowers at LitHub took a look at how Tolkien procrastinated working on Chaucer to instead work on writing The Lord of the Rings.
“For so many years, in short, he had been loafing in his scholarly career as a losel who squandered time on children’s stories when he should have been whipping his Beowulf book into shape. He confided to his publisher in 1937 that Oxford would merely add The Hobbit to his ‘long list of never-never procrastinations’ (Letters, 18).
“The authorities of the university,” lamented Tolkien when The Lord of the Rings was in press, “might well consider it an aberration of an elderly professor of philology to write and publish fairy stories and romances” (Letters, 219).
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