Simple and elegant design of the Korean edition of A Book of Noises published by DELTATIME

“Atmospheric concentrations are now growing faster than at any other time since global record-keeping began about 40 years ago.” theconversation.com/methane-emissi…

Here’s the paperback edition of A Book of Noises from Granta Books. It will be on sale in October

Treasury brain “militates against long-term investment & spending on unquantifiable public goods – preventive healthcare, say, or prisoner rehabilitation – that can save money for future chancellors by reducing the bill for social decay” Rafael Behr⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“New fossil fuel projects are thought to be on shakier legal ground after the precedent set by a landmark supreme court decision that…found the climate impact of burning coal, oil & gas must be taken into account when deciding whether to approve projects” theguardian.com/environment/20…

“The music was a way to bridge cultures and countries.” theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

"Wonder at existence can foster a unique kind of optimism, one that does not arise from any specific positive prospect, but from the realisation that we are inherently sense-makers." Maria Balaska psyche.co/ideas/the-most…

Winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year are out...and they are spectacular. Here's the overall winner, a time-sequence of a solar eclipse that shows deepening shadows from mountains on the Moon. (Credit: Ryan Imperio) rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astro…..

“Where most other big organisations have increased capital to replace labour, the NHS seems to have increased labour to replace capital.” on.ft.com/3MIoATJ

“Fires across South America this year have emitted 72 per cent more carbon dioxide this year than the average for the same period in 2012-2023. ‘This scenario will fuel climate change even more’.” Wildfires sweep Amazon as Brazil on.ft.com/4eqGlCS

The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds. The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds. The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds. The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds. The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds. The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.

Lovely promotion for the launch of Cosmofonia, the Italian edition of A Book of Noises @utetlibri instagram.com/p/C_-V9PjMosO/

Brexit is having “profound and ongoing” negative impact on UK goods exports and imports, latest Jun Du analysis finds. No one lives in the counter factual world, but leaving single marks continues to cost UK. And 2023 was worse! 1/2 on.ft.com/4gpd3qd

“Poetry exists to delight, instruct, console and commemorate… and to change in small and meaningful ways our lives”

“ a 53-year-old…endlessly jostling for empty interactions with strangers. A clown forced to play for an audience he despises… and which gains with every tasteless joke a clearer understanding of what he is really worth” newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

“four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence.” Simon Kuper on.ft.com/4erjnvw

“Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power” economist.com/science-and-te…

“The UK in 2024 demonstrates to the world what living with high inequality means in a once affluent country”

“The UK in 2024 demonstrates to the world what living with high inequality means in a once affluent country” theconversation.com/getting-shorte…

Time holding the Sun and Moon in his hands. Part of an extraordinary sequence in the floor of the church of San Savino in Piacenza. Eleventh century, I think