When you think about demographic data you might just picture a population pyramid. It's arguably the most common way of displaying population data. In my column in The New Daily I explain why population pyramids are great and why I NEVER use them (and what I use instead): buff.ly/diCKuuZ

A coronal mass ejection is en route from the Sun! This footage from GONG reveals two filaments of plasma erupting on the weekend, the latter of which is predicted to reach Earth tomorrow afternoon/evening. A strong geomagnetic storm (and lower-latitude aurora) is possible.

Super cool figure shows how insolation (the amount of solar radiation received by Earth’s surface) has varied over the last 12 thousand years at each latitude, for the months of June and December.

h/t @ibergwiesel.bsky.social

Check out our new Polar Vortex Blog! Though parts of the US have been very cold and snowy, experts do not think there's much evidence that the polar vortex is the main driver of our winter weather so far this year. www.climate.gov/news-feature...

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency

We are facing the demolition of American higher education

The Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise is out! Herculean effort bringing together >200 estimates of glacier loss outside the ice sheets. Bottom line is 273 gigatonnes per year of ice loss since the year 2000! 😲

Open-access article: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🥼❄️ @natureportfolio.nature.com

This is what a protoplanetary disk looks like edge-on.

A young star, blasting jets of material from its poles, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. Where planets are being born.

HH 30. By JWST.