Will Bunch Anti-nuclear protestors gave us climate change.

Karan Talati 🔧 - stop throwing them in rivers
- use less
- bury them in landfills as carbon storage or burn them at high temps

Dan Dennett was a great philosopher, skilled with words, images, thought experiments & intuition pumps. But unlike many clever philosophers (to borrow from PB Medawar) he had something important to be clever ABOUT, namely science. Much more yet, he was a dear friend. So very sad.

In general, activists who want to change public opinion generally need to appeal to the public in various ways, not just do the thing they like doing anyway and then argue that the thing they like led to their desired outcome.

One of my main motivations for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the mad reality in academia that much of the most important research and data is locked away behind paywalls.

I wanted research and data to be a public good, accessible to *everyone*.

If you find our work

I tried to warn y’all

Complete and utter defeat for the anti-test crusaders

Oops I did it again 🤭

#TotalSolarEclipse

No one will use C#? “Have you ever seen an iPhone app use C#?”

You can’t see them. But C# apps are on your phone and you’re using them. 🥰

Vitamin A deficiency blinds up to half a million children annually.

But this banana, high in vitamin A, is being opposed because it's genetically modified.

It is public domain, no patent fees.

HT Simon Maechling
thecooldown.com/green-tech/sup…

This is absurd. The U.S. *constantly* debates whether using the bomb was a good idea, and we all grow up mourning the innocent children caught in the blasts.

Meanwhile Japan sweeps under the rug all its imperial war crimes and the 15 million people they genocided across Asia.

It's clear some people were really mentally broken by the pandemic. I hope this person gets some help.

This tweet was so dumb that Jacobin deleted it...a rare win for the righteous forces of Shut Up, Jacobin

5 total mistakes to avoid at the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse

The April 8 total solar eclipse is almost here.

If you want to make the most of totality, make like Admiral Ackbar and avoid these 5 common traps.

bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

It's true that people opposing vaccines and people opposing nuclear power use similar unscientific arguments.

This shouldn't be controversial.

The First Amendment exists to hamstring the government.

One of the biggest problems in America is that we can’t build infrastructure for normal prices.

Solar panels? 3-4x the cost of Australia
Subways? 10x the cost of Spain
Nuclear plants? 5x the cost of Korea
Housing? 3x the cost of Europe

this shouldn’t be a partisan issue!

Why it mattered so much that Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant was allowed to operate another few years, and why California should drop their ban on new nuclear calmatters.org/environment/cl…

Tom Gregorich washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

👋 Frequent flier here!

It's not just you and the security procedures (like whether you have to take your laptop out) are subtly different at every airport terminal, don't feel gaslighted by this!