Why Don’t We Leave Flowers at Abattoirs?

I was going to write about working memory but a whale got trapped in the River Thames in London this week and it attracted lots of attention, including mine.

Photo by Gabriele Agrillo on Unsplash

Much effort and manpower was devoted to the whale’s rescue. Several Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) members had to physically dislodge the whale from the lock in Richmond. Divers from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue…