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What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ

Yes, the understanding of CO2 & the 'greenhouse' effect goes back to the 1800s. It's textbook physics confirmed by mountains of observational evidence. See a free online version of Prof Weart's textbook "The Discovery of Global Warming" on the American Institute of Physics website: history.aip.org/climate/co2.…

An extremely reliable test of whether you're an honest, sane, & decent human being is whether you agree with this. If you don't, you're not.

Try: "Israel fought a just and proportionate war of self-defense against aggressors who committed mass sexual violence and used civilians as human shields, among other heinous war crimes."

Back in 2016 a jihadist beheaded a four year Russian child and Based Le Trad right wing Putin ordered all the Russian television channels to cover it up to stop Islamophobia.

Tiny piglet, big commitment once the dog proved the flap was not, in fact, a trap ... 🐖 📹 via buitengebieden (X)

The gorilla-philosopher has become an internet star A 13-year-old male gorilla named Kiyomasa from a Japanese zoo, after quarreling with his partner, went to the corner of the enclosure, sat in the classic pose of Rodin’s “The Thinker,” and immersed himself in deep thoughts.

Can confirm. I got a good outdoor fan. Set it up next to my backyard chair. No mosquitoes. And mosquitoes love me.

An act of architectural terrorism

The USS Liberty conspiracy theory asks you to accept that Israel, a nation of 2.5 million people fighting for its literal survival on six fronts simultaneously against 110 million Arabs equipped with Soviet tanks, Soviet aircraft, and Soviet warships, and with no formal American alliance, no American weapons, and no guarantee that anyone was coming to save them, is chose day four of that existential war to deliberately attack the one country on earth that might eventually become their ally, in broad daylight, in international waters, leaving 174 survivors who could identify the attacking forces, while fourteen separate investigations across two governments found zero evidence of intent, while Israel’s own military had accidentally bombed its own armored column the day before proving how catastrophically identification fails in wartime chaos, and while not a single one of the conspiracy theory’s proponents in nearly six decades of trying has ever managed to agree on what Israel was actually trying to accomplish by doing it. Heavy lift.

There’s some quirk in physics where, if there’s a small hole in a bag of mulch it will leak all over your vehicle. But if you rip a giant hole in the bag and try to dump it out into your landscaping, almost none will fall out.

Israel dropped 200,000 bombs. If they wanted to commit a genocide they would have wiped every person in Gaza from existence. They have a kill percentage of 3.2%. WWII killed approximately 4% of the global population. The Siege of Leningrad killed approximately 25% of the city’s population. The atomic bomb killed approximately 30-40% of Hiroshima’s population instantly. The firebombing of Tokyo killed approximately 5-8% of the city’s population in one night. The bombing was not optimized for killing people. It was optimized for destroying infrastructure tunnels, weapons storage, command nodes, and the physical environment Hamas operated in. They warned civilians before strikes documented: They dropped leaflets, made phone calls, sent text messages telling people to evacuate (documented) They allowed 112,000 aid trucks into Gaza during active combat They facilitated field hospitals They targeted Hamas commanders specifically documented kills of senior Hamas leadership including Yahya Sinwar. No military in history has done more administrative work to avoid civilian casualties while simultaneously fighting an enemy that deliberately hides in hospitals, schools, and mosques and uses its own population as shields also documented, on Hamas’s own video. Tucker Carlson is a moron and a coward and in a debate with someone who’s not aligned with Russian, Iranian and Chinese propaganda he wouldn’t survive one round. Of course all these people are cowards who only invite each other to discuss this issue because anyone with half a brain would wipe the floor with them.

It took 70 years but it finally happened

I always think of this quote on memorial weekend.

"Trump started the February 28 war for reasons of personality, not strategy. He is on his way to losing the war for the same reasons of personality." -- @davidfrum: theatlantic.com/politics/202…

One fascinating consequence of GLP-1s/Ozempic: For decades, people said that big pharma would never release actually effective obesity drugs because they’d lose too much money from downstream chronic disease treatment. We’re seeing almost the exact opposite.

The dawn of 24/7 solar power. Cost of battery storage is dropping at an astonishing speed. Costs of storing solar or wind energy have fallen more than 50% since 2022, 27% only last year alone. This is an absolute game changer. It turns around the economics of power. It makes solar and wind competitive not only to coal, but to gas. In April 2026 for the first time the world produced more electricity from solar and wind than from gas. Solar and wind are economically competitive to gas 95% of the time in giants as China, India and Brazil Financial Times have more: lnkd.in/eyvx2bw5

My piece in @TheAtlantic on the real-world consequences of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish defamation. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Saturn Rises Above Titan's Haze Less than 20 minutes after Cassini's close approach to Titan on March 31, 2005, its cameras captured this view of Saturn through Titan's upper atmosphere. The northern part of Saturn's disk can be seen at the upper left; dark horizontal lines are shadows cast upon Saturn by its rings. Below this level, Titan's atmosphere is thick enough to obscure Saturn. The diffuse bright regions of the image (below Saturn and at the right) are light being scattered by haze in the upper reaches of Titan's atmosphere. This image is scientifically useful because it shows properties both of how Titan's haze transmits light (from the attenuation of light from Saturn) and of how the haze reflects light (from its brightness next to Saturn). The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 7,980 kilometers (4,960 miles) from Titan, when Saturn was about 1.3 million kilometers (808,000 miles) away. Image scale is about 320 meters (1,050 feet) per pixel on Titan. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill