Excited for this Behind the Spacecraft series with the Mission To Psyche team! For a place that loves robots, NASA JPL has some spectacular human stories that we’re thrilled to share as we count down to launch 🚀

Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber latimes.com/business/story…

Angus Deaton shows how free-market ideas are killing Americans
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This is huge, fantastic, and heroic: 'Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision' wapo.st/455uN3H

Lots more outlets are finally starting to cover climate litigation. Here's why both the litigation and the coverage matter (and why 2015 was a huge year for climate cases, and 2023 could be too). drilled.media/why-climate-li…

Column: The story behind that Florida school curriculum that whitewashed slavery keeps getting worse latimes.com/business/story…

Barry Kibrick and I talked about my book 'Big Science,' about Ernest Lawrence, Oppenheimer, and the bomb, in 2015. Here's the interview on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=LXqq7b…

Pleased to see this level of interest in mainstream science. Refutation papers don’t often “trend”.

As a mere reporter, I would not be allowed to do this — accept expensive hospitality from some organization, and then report on matters affecting them.

But as a Federalist Society judge, no problem!

We can calculate just how much more water is falling during record downpours, how much greater area is burned by wildfires, how much stronger hurricanes are, and how much more deadly our heat waves are due to climate change. Dr Friederike Otto and I explain, here: nytimes.com/2021/08/17/opi…

Wonderful to celebrate the first year of science from NASA Webb Telescope at the National Academies last evening with lots of great colleagues!! Large, complex missions are historic, generational quests & it’s always exciting to see them come to fruition & make the impact we plan for!!

Strongly recommended
Dave Lipsky's engaging book out today:
The Parrot and the Igloo - Climate and The Science of Denial
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I found many details new to me, for example: Frederick Seitz and Fred Singer were covered in Merchants of Doubt, BUT also:

I love me some electricity, but since I grew up in an all-electric home in the 1970s, I find the notion that all-electric homes are “revolutionary” to be laughable. GE was selling this idea in the 50s… latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Column: Here's how the billionaire owner of the Oakland A's is planning to rip off two cities at once latimes.com/business/story…

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Actually: It has become a disturbing feature of some recent opinions to go beyond the proper role of the judiciary.   

Worse still: Those decisions tend to benefit the right-wing groups and creepy billionaires who put those justices on the Court. Like, pretty much every time.

Extremely lame and defensive climb-down from @Propublica's disastrous 10/22 COVID origins article that is thoroughly debunked by this intelligence report, which PP describes misleadingly. A low point for a usually reliable ProPublica. propublica.org/article/safety…

Quote of the day: In 1864 Lincoln said: “We all declare for liberty, but...we do not all mean the same thing.…The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks [him]... while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.”

Our latest, adapted from Chapter 2 of The Big Myth. thersa.org/comment/2023/0… Erik M Conway [email protected] Bloomsbury U.S. @agent_ayesha Berggruen Institute

This is *absolutely* the right idea: 18-year terms for active service on SupCt. Stagger them so every president predictably has a nomination every two years.

Eliminates game of looking at nominees the way horse traders look at horses' teeth, to see how many years they have left