The survey began in 2010, and last year, a record 60,000 people turned in 62,500 counts of butterflies and day-flying moths from across the United Kingdom, according to Butterfly Conservation, which describes the effort as the largest butterfly count in the world.
NYT
The butterfly census remains
one of humanity's gains.
A labor so charmed
that no one is harmed;
we need more such peaceful campaigns.
MOSCOW—The Russian government signaled Friday its openness to a possible second summit between President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, even as some officials in Moscow remain taken aback by the firestorm that has surrounded the meeting between the two leaders earlier this week.
WSJ
When leaders of global import
meet more than once to cavort,
I think it's a sign
that they still do pine
each other to fully extort.
The air of mystery attaching to the reclusive pangolin has been its downfall, sparking an unjustified belief that its scales have magical medicinal properties. In hospitals and pharmacies across China and Vietnam, powder made from pangolin scales is prescribed for an impossibly wide range of ailments, including rheumatism, wound infections, skin disorders, coronary heart disease and even cancer.
Washington Post
The pangolin is awful rare;
it carries armor and not hair.
It noshes on the eggs of ants
and is a medical romance.
So if you're sick and your heart fails,
just swallow some of its smooth scales.
Crushed pangolin is just the thing
to give you back that good old zing.
But nobody has thought to quiz
the pangolin about this biz.
I think if pangolins could drawl
they'd say "Go get some Tylenol!"
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