Fun fact. The Norwegian flag is a kind of Swiss Army knife of flags. It contains six other flags.

Tripling Nuclear by 2050 ⚛️🚀 Tech giants (Google, Meta, Amazon) joins 14 financial institutions and 31 leading nuclear countries in the race to triple nuclear capacity by 2050. The announcement was made on the sidelines of CERAWeek facilitated by World Nuclear Association. 1/4

The clearest image ever taken of Phobos, Moon of Mars.

B side of punk band Dead Kennedys tape, 1980.

Kīlauea, April 2025. Lava. Fury.

Katy Perry “couldn’t recommend this experience more,” which is useful information for those deciding between space travel and booking a basic economy ticket on Spirit that doesn’t let you carry on any luggage so you have to wear 13 layers of clothing pitchfork.com/thepitch/katy-…

Possible biosignature on K2-18b but note NASA didn't hold a presser despite JWST data. No discovery yet. Everyone stay calm. Our story: washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

Five people have seen “olo”—a color no one else has—thanks to a new system called Oz, according to a Science Advances study. Learn more in #ScienceAdviser: scim.ag/4iw67Hr 📥 Sign up for the daily #newsletter: scim.ag/49hPGM9

Glacier collapse buries most of Swiss village bbc.in/3Fucaz1

U.S. Nuclear Waste - Upcoming online event by Centre for Energy Ethics at University of St Andrews 📍Online - Register here 🔗 👉 energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/governi… 🗓️9 Oct 🕐4-6pm Dr Vincent Ialenti and Prof Mette High will provide insights on American nuclear waste policy.

🔬 Governing the Unseen: U.S. Nuclear Waste Futures & the Geocultural License to Operate Join Dr Vincent Ialenti & Prof Mette High for a fireside chat on U.S. nuclear waste policy. 🗓️ 9 Oct | 🕐 4–6pm | 💻 Online 👉 ow.ly/ojlR50X74pK

Please join us for the 2025 Jack Gallagher Visiting Scientist lecture on October 28 - 1pm - 223 Wallace. Dr. Vincent Ialenti is a cultural anthropologist who studies how nuclear waste organizations engage with deep time and envision the future. University of Manitoba

“Like the Biblical Noah loading pairs of animals onto his ark, scientists & archivists are salvaging fragile bits of our world that are at risk of disappearing forever.” —@McHughJess noemamag.com/the-ark-builde…

My latest in Scientific American: ⛏️ 51,500 CE — A hunter crosses tundra above a long-forgotten Canadian nuclear waste facility. What might these repositories mean to future societies? What do they reveal about us today? 🔗 scientificamerican.com/article/nuclea…

New article by Cornell Anthropology PhD alumnus...

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Protecting future generations takes engineering, technology, diplomacy—and mythmaking. Vincent Ialenti writes about what it will take to warn future humans about nuclear waste in this amazing read in Scientific American: na2.hubs.ly/H02fpfJ0

Read more from Ialenti’s work on Long Now Ideas here: longnow.org/people/vincent…

#Anthropologist Vincent Lalenti explores nuclear waste, deep time & the challenge of communicating risk across millennia in this new piece for Scientific American. “Nuclear Waste Arks Are a Bold Experiment in Protecting Future Generations” 🔗scientificamerican.com/article/nuclea…

Cornell Anthro PhD alumnus Vincent Ialenti recently published this article... The Mind-Bending Challenge of Warning Future Humans about Nuclear Waste