A nuclear powered coal phaseout was completed in just 9 years in Ontario.

This should be the talk if the climate town but gets near zero-play.

Credit Isuru S for the graph

Next week, José González embarks on a North American tour celebrating 20 years of his seminal album ‘Veneer’ — don’t miss it!

Tickets and info: jose-gonzalez.com/tour-dates/

Note how quickly France made the transition. Sweden was the same. Neither country wrecked their economies. Expanding nuclear power in itself is neither too expensive nor too slow – but regulations can seriously slow down the process and drive up costs.

The wonderful Kurt Vonnegut who died #OnThisDay in 2007. American humanist & writer whose novels remain loved by millions. Here’s his enduring advice on living well, featured in you've guessed it, the #littlebookofhumanism . @thealiceroberts

My book What's Our Problem? is now available.

The book introduces a new framework for thinking about our chaotic political environment. With 303 drawings, it's a toolbox for understanding our societies, our group dynamics, and our own minds.

Get it here: waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem

'Super Banana' could save thousands of lives.
→ 250k-500k children become blind yearly.
→ Due to vitamin A deficiency.

↳ Half of them die within 12 months.

The “super banana,” named 'Banana 21', was created after 20 years of research.

Scientists combined a type of banana…

Every premature closure of nuclear plant is a climate catastrophe.

As Angelica notes, Taiwan's plants are built strong and could continue to safely deliver clean energy for years to come.

New book release: What I Believe sheds light on the values driving today’s leading humanist thinkers ⁦Humanists UK⁩ edited by the great ⁦Andrew Copson⁩ humanists.uk/2024/04/04/new…

Cancer mortality has declined over time in many countries.

I wrote a brief data insight to explain this on Our World in Data.

This is one big reason why France succeeded in this way — the large reduction of fossil fuel electricity.

To produce consumption-based CO₂ emissions, statisticians need access to detailed global trade statistics. This data is, therefore, not available over the very long run. But it is available for the last three decades and are shown in this chart.

Until 50 years ago, CO₂ emissions developed in lockstep with economic growth in France.

Since the early 1970s, the opposite has been true: emissions declined as people in France got richer.

Why do humans cry? Good question… Exploring reality through children's eyes challenges us to think harder – even when we don’t have the answers. The #UnstoppableUs book series is inspired by kids’ quest to understand the rules that arrange the world and their personal role in…

.Richard Dawkins has been saying he is a “cultural Christian” for almost twenty years.

I quoted him in my book, “The Atheist Muslim,” for which he graciously wrote the cover blurb. This is not news, my God-deluded Christian brethren.

The idea is still the same: while…

This video of the Rock of Gibraltar gives an intuition for why some areas of the world have deserts next to rainforests

What's happening here?
How can you use that to predict where there will be deserts or rainforests?🧵

It's difficult to understate just how truly evil & monstrous Hamas's leadership is. Within the past few days, the group's leaders rejected a provisional ceasefire deal that would have entailed a viable exchange framework for releasing Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners;…

Poverty alleviation and climate change are two of the biggest challenges facing the world today. Both require huge amounts of international cooperation, and of course money, to solve. But is the world getting the balance of funding right?

New interview:
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The science of light, shadows and colours

This is actually extraordinary- sound on

📹 color.nerd
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The World Bank published today the new poverty data, covering the period of the pandemic up to 2022.

After decades of progress, the world saw the first increase in extreme poverty during COVID.