When I look at what Infantino and Trump have made of World Cup football, my mind turns to the immortal lyrics of "Hatar Sport" in the Swedish film by Lucas Moodysson, "Vi är bäst": Människor dör varje dag Och du bryr dej bara om ditt fotbolls lag
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If we can go this far, we can go the rest of the way and get to zero in the power system. And we absolutely don't need any more North Sea drilling. It will take somewhat longer to get fossil fuels out of ground transport, but renewable electricity is the key to that, too. Burnham, hear that?
Ketan JoshiIn fifteen years, the UK has deleted coal power from their power system, halved fossil gas use, replaced most of that with wind and solar, and the country has not suffered the hellish blackout apocalypse conservatives and media outlets promised would happen. ember-energy.org/data/electri...
But sadly, now in the US, insulin belongs to big pharma not the world, and owing to the government's refusal to negotiate prices, the insulin tri-opoly is charging hundreds of dollars for a dose that costs maybe $5 to make, using a bunch of patent gimmicks to do so.
Ariaa®Trump's latest attack on nature: this time revoking protection for the incomparable Boundary Waters Canoe WIlderness. eos.org/articles/one... This feels even more personal than most, since some of my Midwestern forebears (by marriage) were instrumental in establishing protection.
One Billion Years Ago, Northern Minnesota Nearly Split Apart. Now, Two Companies Want to Mine the Aftermath. - EosA continental rift created valuable mineral deposits beneath a remote wilderness beloved by recreationists.eos.orgA new direction for Harrison.
Harrison NichollsNew paper on arXiv today! On the efficacy of using novel Bayesian machine learning to dispatch 'expensive' forward models of planetary evolution. This connects with #PLATO ageing and can help solve degeneracies in current static-retrieval approaches which treat #exoplanets as snapshots.
Another good example of how curiosity-driven science yields the out-of-the-box breakthroughs that drive the economy of the future. The US (and even UK) have turned their backs on this kind of science.
altNOAA 🇺🇸Physicist Ed Purcell was studying outer space when he discovered nuclear magnetic resonance. Years later, scientists would take his discovery and invent the MRI, one of the most important inventions of 20th Century. When people say we shouldn't go to space, they're speaking from ignorance.