How making the call to the bullpen flipped the 2024 election on its head, by the numbers (a really sharp analysis) -- www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We Dug Into the 2024 Polling Crosstabs. What We Found Was Stunning.

Harris has made eye-popping gains with traditional, core Democratic base voters while also appealing to independents.

Scientists really said "okay great-great-grandma let's get you to bed" www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

Never take health tips from world’s oldest people, say scientists

Scientists still trying to work out why some people live beyond 100, but agree it is best to avoid taking advice from centenarians themselves

New Belfast Telegraph poll of Northern Irish voting intentions. Once again the big winner seems to be our old friend MoE (margin of error…) Nb. The fieldwork took place mostly before Doug Beattie resigned as UUP leader www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...#stormont#devolution

Uruguay powered its economy with 100% renewable electricity for 10 straight months (the streak came to an end in May when it had to use a little bit of gas) theprogressplaybook.com/2023/10/19/e...

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months

Uruguay's rapid energy transformation has shielded electricity users from global shocks.

But the number of nations getting a sizable fraction of their electricity from renewables is climbing. Seven nations are at 100%, 10 are >90%, 40 nations >50%. 🧪🔌💡https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy

Scientists say we have reached an ‘irreversible tipping point’ that will see fossil fuels phased out

I'd like to take the famous British "stiff upper lip" and drag it out back and put it out of its misery. Bottling everything up and drowning your feelings with alcohol surely isn't a productive approach to dealing with problems. :-( #trauma 3/3

When will the intergenerational #trauma be addressed? When will a balm be applied to unhealed wounds of so many? Why were these historic abuses covered up and ignored for so long? How can so many survive carrying around such burdens without any assistance? I weep for the nation. 2/3

O Britain, your boarding schools & stuffy institutions have so much to answer for. The sorrow and pain that was covered up is unbelievable. The victims' pain is so hard to witness even decades after the fact. It is a cancer that eats away at the heart, despite the stiff upper lip. #trauma

Incendie dans un centre d’art au cœur de Londres, des dizaines de pompiers mobilisés

Incendie dans un centre d’art au cœur de Londres, des dizaines de pompiers mobilisés

Un incendie s'est déclaré samedi matin sur le toit de la Somerset House, un centre d'art situé au coeur de Londres, où...

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Opinion | Harris’s Economic Plan Could Impress a Lot of Voters

The plan she presented in Raleigh was about how to lower the cost of living.