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space debris and global warming

The issue of a thinner upper atmosphere with increasing CO₂ is much worse than I had expected.

It seems clear anything orbited should have an active mechanism to de-orbit.

 

 

 

jungle night

A collaboration between Sandra Boynton and Yo-Yo Ma for young children

names of donald duck's nephews

 

lifelessness is stitched into our very being

An excerpt from Carl Zimmer's new book.

snip

...

Last spring, coyotes strolled down the streets of San Francisco in broad daylight. Pods of rarely seen pink dolphins cavorted in the waters around Hong Kong. In Tel Aviv, jackals wandered a city park, a herd of mountain goats took over a town in Wales, and porcupines ambled through Rome’s ancient ruins. As the canals in Venice turned strangely clear, cormorants started diving for fish, and Canada geese escorted their goslings down the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard, passing empty shops displaying Montblanc pens and Fendi handbags.

Nature was expanding as billions of people were retreating from the Covid-19 pandemic. The change was so swift, so striking that scientists needed a new name for it: the anthropause.

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world building

How a few authors do it.

a tip of the hat to Lynn

a rare christmas carol

The New York Public Library has a digitized copy of the Christmas Carol that Dickens marked up to deliver public readings.

 

 

a very fancy book

A very limited edition of Good Omens.  Neil Gaiman shows off the one given to him.

Here's a link to the unboxing on the bookseller's site.

 

rick perlstein on modern conservatism

I've been meaning to read Rick Perlstein's three - and now four - volumes on modern conservatism.  They certainly come highly recommended.  This New Yorker interview pushes me closer..  but not before the election.

pirate stew

coming from Neil Gaiman in Oct

30 years since the publication