Be CAREFUL. I've an absolute nightmare story about a lady who did fall asleep with her mother in the car. She ended up with a ten year driving ban, and no mother.
I still meet people who are adamant lockdown was a mistake. We've just seen what happens when leaders dither in denial, then double down dither, S Korea, meanwhile, 36,000 total deaths I believe?
I am not often blown away by a paper in the American Economic Review, but genuinely gobsmacked here. The causal chain here is veterinary use of a painkiller that's toxic to vultures -> vulture populations collapse -> higher human mortality from unscavenged carcasses. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Why can't we have someone nice? 😭 They are always liars of dismal disappointment or lords of insidious dark repellency.
"Loss and damage" is what happens when efforts to reduce emissions and address climate risks have been insufficient for avoiding harm. Addressing loss and damage (e.g., via rebuilding) will be far more expensive than avoiding it in the first place. And so many things in this world can't be replaced.
More than 50 people were reported dead across the southeastern U.S. and millions without power as forecasters braced for “catastrophic” flooding.
Two years?! 😦 The average prison sentence for assault resulting in ABH is only 13-14 months.
Perhaps familiarity will become cause for skepticism too? open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
New artificial intelligence tools can make chatbots that are scarily good at mimicking dead loved ones. Should they exist?
"The UK’s clampdown on international students and overseas skilled workers will cost business more than £40bn and provide no overall benefit to society, according to government estimates of the policies’ impact" - on.ft.com/3ZGs8O4@financialtimes.com
Home Office assessments come as new Labour government presses ahead with curbs on immigration
Did you know that at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, there is an impact crater topped up with ice? Really cool visualization suite here. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4572/ ⚒️
The series of visualizations below are derived from satellite imagery and radar sounding. They portray both the location and size of the 31-kilometer-wide impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier. They ...
Do you think the events of the 1950's have relevance and ramifications today?