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#IStandWithEvan

There is a lot happening in the news these days, but it seems like we should be paying a bit more attention to the fact that the world just saw its hottest day on record (in absolute terms), coming on the back of 13 straight record setting months:

A reminder ( it’s an evergreen topic) - humans are a genetically undiverse species - we exploded out Africa in a heartbeat of evolutionary time and we predominantly adapted to the multitude of environments by our behaviour, passing that knowledge down culturally in groups

Evan cannot be freed soon enough. #IStandWithEvan ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩

This is one hell of a final page of a book.

What an absolute legend!

The best front page ever.

The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mom on.wsj.com/4d98rCt on.wsj.com/4d98rCt

Bloomberg's editor in chief: "We prematurely published a story on the release of Evan Gershkovich and the other prisoners, which could have endangered the negotiated swap that set them free." Read the rest: x.com/katie_robertso…

Fourteen years ago, I wondered why my students at NYU Journalism couldn't have access to embargoed EurekAlert! press releases. Others have also wondered that. Today, they changed their policy. embargowatch.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/so-… via Deborah Blum

Big news! A team of former @natgeo editors and contributors (Rachael Bale Oliver Payne Rene Ebersole) has started a new investigative wildlife journalism nonprofit called WIRE. Incredible that they are continuing this important work: wireonline.org

Nova Scotia, August 2024

424.35 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 05-Aug-2024 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

It’s that time of year again #internationalcatday2024

423.13 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 16-Aug-2024 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

"This practice of lionizing and glossing over protesters’ actual beliefs insulates their ideas from correction. It is difficult to steer protesters away from extreme rhetoric...if you are abiding a norm of treating them as beyond critique" nymag.com/intelligencer/…

A team has translated the Euripides Papyrus, a 3rd-century text discovered in the corner of a pit grave at the necropolis of Philadelphia in Egypt in 2022, and revealed 100 previously unknown lines written by 5th-century B.C. Greek playwright Euripides. archaeology.org/news/2024/09/0…

Hey I don't want to distract you from the vital narrative-building on fracking in Pennsylvania, but ... 51% of energy jobs in PA are clean energy; clean energy employs 8X as many PA workers as gas; 78% (!) of PA residents want *more* clean energy. climatepower.us/news/clean-ene…

Like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables. And we are shutting down – not building – coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest. PS: We also don’t eat cats and dogs. #Debate2024

Congratulations to Joe Palazzolo and his colleagues at the The Wall Street Journal for winning the Pulitzer for National Reporting for their coverage of Elon Musk. And kudos to WSJ’s Christopher Weaver & Anna Matthews for being finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.