Nice tableau of wealth and learning you got there. Be a shame if an anamorphic reminder of your mortality was obliquely visible in the foreground.

Madness

You're gonna want to read this. Believe me. An absolute barnburner: the story of carbon over the entire history of Earth, how it gives and takes lives, how the deep past informs the present. Peter🌲Brannen proves why he's the leading scribe of Earth sciences today. Out in August!

Hieronymus Bosch c. 1503-1504. Garden of Earthly Delights (details)

Top 5 best feelings as a man 1) squeezing colaborer’s hand in a vat of spermaceti 2) the physical touch of a cannibal 3) someone yelling “thar she blows” 4) when a team’s various wheels fit its captain’s one cogged circle 5) first quaff from a harpoon socket What am I missing?

Pacers games looking like the Holocene

Absolutely insane for the head of HHS to tell Americans that none of the vaccines their kids are getting have gone through safety tests - when all of them have been safety-tested.

A possible silver lining to crippling our storm forecasting ability is the potential for more, original 10-minute folk songs about shipwrecks

We live on a beautiful planet filled with mostly decent people seeking only the means to lead lives of dignity. It’s an enduring tragedy that our species has to submit to the world-making fantasies of a few craven psychopaths.

Grants terminated at Harvard, impacting the study of allergy and infectious diseases, cancer, mental health, aging. Congratulations to all the clowns involved.

why is such silly, reductionist / stereotypical thinking back in style? it's the way cartoons would think, if cartoons could think. surely not even very stupid people think in such simplistic ways?

Soccer superstar Pele visits the White House and kicks around with President Ford.

This chart of Jeff Bezos' wealth is old, and as a result is now $100 billion dollars short, but illustrates that people really don't understand large numbers and actually no, no one should have this much money. eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

New paper shows that, while high CO2 destroyed the Permian world in the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, the die-off of tropical rainforests kept CO2 high--and this miserable planet sweltering--for some 5 million years afterwards. nature.com/articles/s4146…

“Fastovich et al. used fossil pollen records spanning 600,000 years…to identify how vegetation responds to climate change...In this record, vegetation responded at timescales from hundreds to tens of thousands of years, but not at timescales shorter than about 150 years”

Pleased to see Kirkus Reviews call my book “A thrilling exploration of Earth’s tumultuous history, its tenuous present, and a future in grave doubt." Dismayed to see Quercus Reviews pan it as "Not an oak tree." pre-order👇 harpercollins.com/products/the-s…

China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says on.ft.com/4kwHbRg