Putin is going to find it difficult to arrest all these people with his jails overflowing. Well done, brave Russian people of St Petersburg. 🇷🇺✊

This space has solid info that pierces through the misinformation noise. Listen in. x.com/i/spaces/1LyxB…

#Ukraine tells IAEA that fire at site of #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has not affected “essential” equipment, plant personnel taking mitigatory actions.

The best thing the US can do to help Ukraine is to convince Putin that de-escalation is a less costly and risky option for him than continuing the war. Calling for regime change or assassination does the opposite.

Francis Fukuyama: Putin’s war on the liberal order | Financial Times ft.com/content/d0331b…

In most countries, democracy is a recent achievement. Dictatorship is far from a distant memory. Don't take it for granted. - Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/democracies-age

Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart dormant nuclear power stations and increase power output of existing ones. This is *critical* to national and international security.

"Problems are solvable. Given enough time we can end the horrors of today. Poverty is not inevitable. Diseases that are incurable today might be curable in just a few generations." From Max Roser's new post on the vast future that is ahead of us ourworldindata.org/longtermism

NASA released a spiral chart to visualize the global temperature change between 1880 and 2021. We NEED climate reform.

Reddit as a collective intelligence

here is a quick thread for anybody who didn't read the 3 ipcc reports published in the last year (hello, politics, business and news editors) summarizing what hundreds of the world's top scientists concluded in their mega-review of the academic literature on climate change 1/

Report: State and Trends of Carbon Pricing worldbank.org/en/news/press-…

Hippos can’t technically swim The perfect combination of buoyancy and bone density allows them to “fly” thorough water at speeds of 5mph, (8 kph) propelling themselves using intermittent ground contact, like astronauts on a moon walk

Feature Comparison xkcd.com/2699

“Let me take care of that”

Iridescent clouds are a diffraction phenomenon caused by small water droplets or small ice crystals individually scattering light. They often occur on lenticular clouds on top of a cumulonimbus, called pileus [read more: buff.ly/3D2AyTl]

Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity onbeing.org/programs/janin…