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⚡️INERTIA⚡️ The magic ingredient at the heart of our power systems. It's also one of the obstacles to replacing fossil fuels with renewables. In short, a REALLY big deal! But most folks have never heard of it. It's widely considered too complex. So. Here's your idiot's guide 🧵

And here's the slightly 🤯 thing: every single turbine around the country is spinning at exactly the same frequency. Every one. 50hz. It's like an enormous orchestra across the land, all playing the same tune at exactly the same tempo.

NEW US GDP shrinks at an annualised rate of 0.3% in Q1. Slightly worse than expectations (-0.2%). First quarterly fall in three years

No aid has entered Gaza in over 8 weeks. Children are starving. Hospitals are lacking basic medicine. This is the longest blockade since the war began and is completely unacceptable. Ireland calls on Israel to lift the blockade & allow humanitarian aid in immediately.

"We are talking about 2.1 million lives at stake if this happens, we are talking about our humanity at stake if this happens" Olga Cherevko from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs speaking from Gaza on the nightmare reality of running out of everything

A headline you won’t see in American media about an American teen killed by Israeli troops.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached a critical point. With food supplies vanishing, children cry from hunger, and mothers scour the ground for even the smallest scraps.

The Miles Davis Quintet at its peak — “Footprints” as a lesson in musical conversation…

American Victory Day 2025 Latest Chartbook newsletter just dropped tinyurl.com/3v3ver5u Apropos of this FT piece ft.com/content/dd707a…

"The concept is based on taking a patient from the bitter reality they live in to another world — one of peace, with trees, birds, and rivers." How Gaza's injured youth find healing through TechMed's VR therapy: newarab.com/features/gazas…

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The arenas of today—transformative industries like consumer electronics and software—have brought sweeping change to our lives. The arenas of tomorrow are likely to bring even greater change. Learn about 18 industries that could shape the global economy: mck.co/arenas

This 1974 Volkswagen Beetle had a trailer add-on that provides a small living space that can attach to the vehicle. Bonus: it had a maneuverability of 360° and a good aerodynamics. [📹 Dave Ford]

Chartbook 380 Trump's futurism: Elon's rockets and fewer dolls for "baby girl" Is US right-wing best understood as making a wager against the future and on "the bunker", or does it in fact embody a radical, perhaps quixotic politics of the future? 1 of 2 tinyurl.com/aprsb72h

And you persuade yourself that adjusting your actual trade balance will make a difference to this politics?

'Self-portrait.' (c1930) Lotte Laserstein studied painting under Erich Wolfsfeld at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts and for the final two years of her tuition was his star pupil, an honour which brought with it her own studio at the Academy in which to paint.

"The kids are crying all the time because there’s nothing to eat or drink.” The United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA decried the worsening situation in Gaza, after nearly nine weeks of a total Israeli blockade on the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.

Those crazy communists over at the Financial Times... Netanyahu does not care about the hostages. He chooses death and more death. "Total victory" is the mantra of totalitarian ideology.

Serious question: Has anyone in the Merz-Klingbeil government in Berlin ever had any "big idea"? Written anything of note? Proposed any concept or vision of any kind? Asking not polemically but in desperation. Is there anything to be said about any of these drab people?