Here's an updated map on where Northern Lights are visible based on YOUR reports and photos!

From my street way down here in Tucson, Arizona, tonight—seeing the glow of the Northern Lights over the Santa Catalina Mountains! instagram.com/p/DQ8i9EQkXaq/… #ThePhotoHour #azwx @apple #shotoniPhone

Timelapse of the #Aurora seen from SaguaroNationalPark last night in #tucson #arizona #northernlights

UPDATE: This is the latest high resolution cloud cover forecast for the overnight. Our anticipated CME has arrived & is quite potent, but currently has a positive Bz (which is unfavorable). Time will tell if that can turn negative by nightfall to allow for another big night of

This evening in Saguaro National Park… instagram.com/p/DRBuMAyEUEu/… #azwx #ThePhotoHour @apple #shotoniPhone17pro

Impossible to understand our moment in history without grasping that for many people reality is increasingly a marginal phenomenon that happens around the edges of screen time.

I think there is a limit to what you can learn through a screen. Even well made documentaries are much closer to entertainment than education. But if you look at the utterly mindless stuff people are watching on their phones it's horrifying. We need a social taboo against slop

"I wish you a nice Sunday, friendly parents, fine food, long walks, a clear head." —Franz Kafka, letter, 1912

This needs nuance, but the uncomfortable truth must be faced… AND if tech truly cared about education instead of just profit, there COULD be a way to have carefully-designed and pedagogically-restricted ‘good’ devices…but that is NOT what we have now

We’re doomed. 9k likes, almost 1k comments, and over 2k shares. A once in a lifetime rainbow storm! Whatever that is.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We’re getting young men addicted to video games, porn, gambling, investing, vaping—and then act surprised that they’re not transitioning into adulthood. It was “open season on their dopamine systems—and it was hugely lucrative.”

This needs nuance and flexibility, but…YES!!!!!!

Restaurants, come on… 15,18,20% guidelines make sense, but this is insulting.

‘Far Side’ Comic (November 24, 1986)

Perfect time of year to Opt Outside in Saguaro National Park in Tucson…instagram.com/p/DRpwdtrkh3C/… #ThePhotoHour #azwx #shotoniPhone17pro Apple

Learning a second language can protect against cognitive decline. Data from 86k people across 27 countries: Being multilingual predicted 30% lower risk of accelerated biological aging over time. Communicating in multiple tongues is a form of mental exercise.

…& he could say this precisely because he knew so many “facts” and which ones he needed to keep in his head… It’s exhausting, as a teacher, to see people take Einstein out of context in order to justify sub-par education; we all need facts AND imagination, ‘stuff’ AND thought!

In Saguaro National Park with the iPhone 17 pro this evening: December desert sunset and last full moon (the “Cold Supermoon”) of the year… instagram.com/p/DR3mmv3kfZ6/… @apple #ThePhotoHour

🌞🌡️New daily record high temperature for Tucson. Tucson Int'l airport has recorded a high temperature so far today of 83°. The previous record for Dec 14 was 80° (2010). #azwx

Fall finally arrives in December down in the desert’s riparian canyons… with the iPhone 17 pro in Tucson’s Sabino Canyon: instagram.com/p/DSRdZo5FD8y/… #ThePhotoHour #azwx