It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.

Canadian House of Commons Member Charlie Angus: Canadians are very proud of our traditions. We know, having lived next door to our neighbors… that while our taxes might be slightly higher, it doesn’t cost us a dime to go to the doctor…

More than 90% of fossil fuel emissions occurred since my parents were born.
Over 80% since I was born.
Over 30% since my children were born.

And well over 50% since the world agreed at the Rio Earth Summit to prevent dangerous climate change. And I thought: „At last!“

That the US has an incoming government with a stated policy position of bringing back the high childhood mortality we had a couple generations ago seems utterly insane.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

The famous Apollo 17 "Blue Marble" photograph of Earth was taken 52 years ago today, on December 7, 1972, from a distance of about 33,500 kilometers.

"I’ll tell you, if there ever was a fragile-appearing piece of blue in space, it’s the Earth right now."
– LMP Harrison "Jack" Schmitt

Baffled by the management of this race honestly

i think about this quote a lot

"Don't bother, it doesn't matter any more. We're waiting to die."

Messages of Palestinian colleagues in Gaza on what to say to our politicians communicated by @rohantalbot.bsky.social of Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Israel is committing the crime against humanity of extermination in Gaza.

I updated the data in my article about the history of child mortality.

Without any large exceptions, every second child died — in Ancient Rome, in hunter-gatherer societies, in the pre-Columbian Americas, in Medieval Japan, in Imperial China, or the Renaissance.

ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:

Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47

Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429

Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3

Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2

Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0

Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0

This is not a mandate.

It's somehow way worse than this