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A short story of how silly numbers end up in mainstream discourse when journalists don't do their job. I was reading the article linked here and paused for a second when I got to the highlighted part in the screenshot. 1/7 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

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As Neeraj Ghaywan's "Homebound" is receiving rave reviews at Cannes, Basharat Peer's NYT article that inspired the movie is doing the rounds again. Written at the height of the pandemic, missed reading it then but what an incredibly poignant and moving piece, this! www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/o...

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Jfc www.dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-...

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New Climate Fiction! Read: The Seed Dropper. Decades after flooding drove his family from their Louisiana home, June returns to replant the land, and grapple with its legacy. Read it today: bit.ly/4k5Jyew #Fiction #ClimateFiction #SolarPunk #Literature #Climate

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An excellent article -and podcast- questioning whether climate activists are really so radical. It makes you wonder: has any society in history been as willingly docile as ours?

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

A glimpse into the places, people and daily life of Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.

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"Meanwhile, authorities also helped households to switch from coal-fired boilers to cleaner fuels, and worked to repair degraded ecosystems while also increasing the amount of green spaces within the city, UNEP says." basically: less fossil fuels, more trees theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/12/i...

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

This is a great list, interesting books! theconversation.com/the-climate-...

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👇🏽This is really wild . An actual climate change clarion call

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 761 comments

Sorry, but this stuff drives me absolutely crazy. I’m sorry economists & journalists are just discovering the field of international political economy. But we’ve been studying & publishing about this stuff for 50 years now. There’s no new age of anything & “geoeconomics” has been around forever.

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

IR has lost a giant. When skeptics question the value of social sciences to the world, people like Joe Nye are part of the answer. on.ft.com/3SrIlSq Joseph Nye, who coined the term ‘soft power’, dies aged 88

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Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

submitted 17 days ago • 1937 comments

Strange to install solar and have it connected to the grid instead of having batteries.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

This is true in the same way that everybody with an iPhone got a shit U2 album

submitted 29 days ago • 36 comments

This OpEd out today is my most thoroughly fact-checked and legally vetted publication among over 100 prior articles. Why? People are afraid RFK Jr will do exactly what he’s promised and go after those who publish things he doesn’t like. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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Shifting baseline syndrome in action here. Sneaky and dangerous, on part of India Meteorological Department to do this! www.downtoearth.org.in/amp/story/cl...

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This video, on Meta's data center in Mansfield, Georgia, is really good public communication from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Planned obsolescence - companies making old but functional devices stop working so people buy new ones - is one of many challenges in smart homes. There's a lot of potential to improve comfort, convenience, energy efficiency and grid-interactivity, but we need standards that prevent stuff like this.

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

Thank you ETH Zurich for sharing the results of the investigation regarding Tom Crowther, which confirm most of the concerns raised in greater depth. I'm relieved to see that ETH is going to take a closer look at how it oversees and manages the conduct of research groups. ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...

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Holy shit this is real.

submitted 30 days ago • 35 comments

Musk is saying the protesters are paid. 😂 The comments are all like, "I hate him for free," and "i wish I was paid, I've been putting in the work"

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 32 days ago • 759 comments

This study has a strange conclusion. I'm confused when they say the only negative impact of SO2 is acid rain, and that it is not a problem for India. They go as far as saying sulfur emissions should persist because they cool the planet. Isn't SO2 a harmful pollutant?

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

The first recorded strike in history took place almost 3,200 years ago! The ‘Strike Papyrus’ recounts that in year 29 of the reign of Ramesses III (c. 1157 BC) royal tomb workers at Deir el-Medina downed tools over pay and working conditions! Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 me #AncientBlueSky 🏺 #Archaeology

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This is profoundly, the most disturbing story I've ever read. Elon Musk believes his children are a legion and he needs to make as many babies as possible before the apocalypse. He has a breeding fetish mixed with a messianic doomsday cult obsession. archive.ph/H7U2a

submitted 38 days ago • 174 comments

A propos of nothing, when it comes to climate policy local, domestic consulting groups with intimate understanding of their sectors and the domestic economy will generally provide better service & products at half to a quarter the the cost of famous global groups, but their bids won’t be as fancy.

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Except making labour laws more flexible, the rest of it is pretty spot on why India’s startup ecosystem is ailing India’s current growth story is uninspiring fast deliveries & service-oriented labour exploitation. Would love to see more manufacturing & innovation! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Refusing to eat at any buffet that doesn't have troughs of trash and broken glass

submitted 40 days ago • 34 comments

Okay, let's do this: AMA about the "dire" wolf study. Note: I wasn't involved in the project and have no ties to Colossal. I'm a paleoecologist with expertise on Pleistocene extinctions and their impacts, and the role ice age megafauna played in their ecosystems. I also research rewilding.

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Artist Kananginak Pootoogook (1935-2010) poses for photographer Rosemary Gilliat at Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1960. Pootoogook would become the President of the famous West-Baffin Co-operative. 📷 Rosemary Gilliat | Library and Archives Canada

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Update: at least 844 visas have been revoked across more than 160 colleges. Many students are unsure why they were targeted—and even less sure what to do now. Follow our coverage @insidehighered.com, and stay up to date with @amowreader.com’s interactive map: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

submitted 42 days ago • 682 comments

Reluctantly started watching a video on geoengineering by Make Sunsets where the main guy is like "I couldn't figure out why scientists hadn't done this" and I wanted to punch the laptop immediately Scientists & engineers know exactly why SAI won't work and that is why they haven't "done" this. Ugh

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Wrote a short piece for Indian readers who often think reducing air pollution will reduce climate impacts, also featuring @adisen99.bsky.social's paper. Many were shocked, and it started conversations on why India is surprisingly cool with ~0.7 °C of total warming! www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

submitted 43 days ago • 142 comments