This is so nutty (cubed) it's creepy. Yep, a patent for artillery shells that explode and spray retardant. Maybe Boeing should concentrate on building planes that don't fall apart and spacecraft that don't maroon passengers.

Here's one, not AI. What's wrong in this photo? Yep, a propeller on the C130 en route to the South Pole stopped. Had to go back to McMurdo. A subsequent flight got me to the pole for the solstice. Who says history isn't a field discipline...

And Humboldt describing his ambition for what became Cosmos:

Smoke obscured the view, but not the insights - delightful tour of the Tobacco Root Mountains with Mark Fiege and Michael Reidy. Will deliver the Stegner Lecture at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman tomorrow evening - appropriately on fire.

Another way to think about the #Pyrocene. It's geology's version of Jurassic Park. We take something from tens of millions of years ago, release it in the present, and find a lot of unexpected consequences.

August 5 - the 75th anniversary of the Mann Gulch fire. The fire made Life Magazine and impacted many individuals, but had little institutional or social influence until Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire, posthumously published in 1992, connected wildland fire with the wider culture.

Canadian Geographic gave me 800 words to comment on Canada's fire scene, perhaps setting it within the #Pyrocenecanadiangeographic.ca/articles/spl...

Splendour and Awfulness

Stephen J. Pyne, the author of Awful Splendour: A fire history of Canada, says we are well beyond learning to live with fire — we now have to live with a fire age

It is one of the worst and longest heatwaves hittin4 #Mexico.More#wildfires#Yucatan#drought#GOES16#oladecalor#climateemergency@katharinehayhoe.com

Hmm I'll try again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-a...

Hmm. I'll try again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-a...