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Main audience: everyone Recently I stumbled across a couple of message threads by climatologists who were new to me. I thought I was just learning more about AMOC, not politics, but everything seems to be tangled together these days. Click … Continued

Main audience: everyone Last night my wife & I did something we haven’t done before. We went to a ballet performance, for which you see the program here—Northern Ballet’s Gentleman Jack. It is every bit as good as friends have … Continued

Main audience: everyone, especially USA people A year ago talking about what to expect in the waning days of the regime in the USA may have seemed too optimistic. It looks reachable now. We can expect a surge of bad … Continued

Main audience: everyone I did not anticipate extremists would use consequences of climate change to advance their politics or quests for power. But I also wonder whether the catastrophic Republican agenda may have made it harder to leverage climate change … Continued

Main audience: UK people The UK can turn away from demonizing trans people, which is also a stealth attack on a wide range of others and a wedge that enables attacks on other segments of society. We need to act … Continued

Main audience: everyone Other things were on my mind. Then Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket blew up during a test on the launchpad. I get questions when such things happen, so here are a few of my thoughts about it. … Continued

Main audience: everyone In democracies, gov’t should derive its legitimacy from consent of the governed—from us. Instead gov’t usually focuses on economic growth at the behest of elites. Sometimes gov’t serves us, but too often it serves us to them … Continued

Main audience: UK people The UK is getting *hot weather* this holiday weekend! Britons simultaneously love it after grim winters and wilt in it. Want some tips from someone who grew up with heat? Including maybe a fun way to … Continued

Main audience: USA people BBC, Politico, CBS, MSN, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and more got it wrong. DJT did not get a settlement in his lawsuit against the IRS (really against himself). He made a slush fund with … Continued

Main audience: everyone Because of the way Ebola transmits from one person to another, it can’t hop all over the world in a hurry the way an airborne disease can. But we have no vaccine or treatment for the type … Continued