Sunday off-site 280216

• Here's 90 minutes of Dara O'Briain on being and speaking Irish, on women in comedy, on celebrity, on science.
• What if we could kill all the Aedes and/or Anopheles mosquitos?
• A race on the wild side [long-form alert] starting just along the coast from the River Elwha in Washington State. "On June 26, a 71-year-old arrives with his 26-year-old first mate, having spent the morning jury-rigging their broken rudder. He steps ashore and says simply, “I do this stuff.”"
• Another [gorgeous] project on the edge is a photo-essay about paperless national borders in Europe.
• Darth Vader and Spiderman help out in a renovation project.
• How good is your ear for British English? BBC audio quiz.