36 percent of Americans eat fast food on any given day. Many other great nuggets in this piece, including how younger millennials are driving fast food consumption. nytimes.com/2024/05/12/din…

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LONG-READ COLUMN: Big Oil is going back into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, BP and its rivals are racing to develop some of the most difficult oilfields ever in the gulf.

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A brave new world is here. There will be many positives and negatives, as we have learned from all the existing internet platforms. “AI friends” will be used to help with loneliness and to help diagnose disease, and monetized to sell goods/services, and for many scams.

NEW: Perhaps a better chance of aurora viewing tomorrow night versus tonight.

We’re awaiting another CME impact. That will probably come Sunday morning, but perhaps too late for a good display tonight. Better chance may be for viewing Sunday night.

Good explanation of what you saw last night...for us this far South, we see a lot of the reddish pink because at our latitude, we see the upper altitude mostly. We in the South experienced something very unique and possibly once in a lifetime for those that were curious...

Just in case you want to see the cool images from the sun itself!

Tariffs and Timidity Are Driving US Carmakers into a Ditch ⁦David Fickling⁩ writes bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Brazil’s Historic Floods Create a ‘Katrina Moment’ for Lula’s Presidency bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Northern lights in TN

Which is why attention needs to be paid to how hydrogen is produced AND used. Straining electricity supplies to produce a molecule to use in situations where direct use of that electricity would be more efficient makes no economic or environmental sense.

Battle over Washington's carbon market hinges on gasoline prices subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Prayers for his family during this time of loss. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

My cat kills the cicada. My dog eats the cicada. Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside?

*Just in*: El Niño is likely to dissipate within the next month, followed by the arrival of La Niña by late summer/early fall. This has huge repercussions for the Atlantic Hurricane Season. axios.com/2024/05/09/el-…

Deep seabed mining- what could go wrong? 😑 nytimes.com/2024/05/09/wor…

The world’s economic order is breaking down. A great zeitgeist piece on deglobalization and some of its many impacts. economist.com/briefing/2024/…

That’s, a lot

Round 2 is coming

Very scary situation south of Spring Hill. Has crossed I-65. Multiple reports of damage.