Maggie Koerth
@maggiek.bsky.social
CNN editor for climate and weather. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15.
Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
My views are not my employer's.
Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
My views are not my employer's.
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Oh this sucks! I have LOVED my Radwagon
NEW: Rad Power Bikes has told employees it will go out of business in January without new funding.
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
Rad Power Bikes faces shutdown in January without new funding | TechCrunch
The company is "still fighting to find ways to continue" according to an email viewed by TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Oh this sucks! I have LOVED my Radwagon
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How do we know it's a "major" deal if the terms aren't disclosed?
Also, this context looks seems pretty important to me in considering what drove the deal 👉: trellis.net/article/pach...
Also, this context looks seems pretty important to me in considering what drove the deal 👉: trellis.net/article/pach...
Exclusive: Carbon Direct acquires Pachama in major climate deal
Demand for credits from rainforest preservation and other projects is rising, driven partly by tech giants.
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
How do we know it's a "major" deal if the terms aren't disclosed?
Also, this context looks seems pretty important to me in considering what drove the deal 👉: trellis.net/article/pach...
Also, this context looks seems pretty important to me in considering what drove the deal 👉: trellis.net/article/pach...
I got to bed around 3. I slept until 10. Why is my brain still mush?
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got to bed around 3. I slept until 10. Why is my brain still mush?
Apparently an Asian grocery store in Austin, TX, had the same cooling system vandalism happen that happened recently to the Eastside coop here. Is this a copper theft situation or what? I’m so curious about why people in different parts of the country are damaging refrigeration units.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Apparently an Asian grocery store in Austin, TX, had the same cooling system vandalism happen that happened recently to the Eastside coop here. Is this a copper theft situation or what? I’m so curious about why people in different parts of the country are damaging refrigeration units.
It’s really something when you sit on the ground in the plane longer than the actual flight would have been.
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
It’s really something when you sit on the ground in the plane longer than the actual flight would have been.
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After years of living in Minnesota I felt I’d had my fill of the annual Edmund Fitzgerald stories, but @christalawler.bsky.social & @janahollingsworth.bsky.social found some new ones and tell them beautifully. No paywall:
50 years later, the mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald still haunts the children of its lost crew
“This time of year when the gales of November kick up, it’s almost impossible not to think of the men on the Fitz.”
www.startribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
After years of living in Minnesota I felt I’d had my fill of the annual Edmund Fitzgerald stories, but @christalawler.bsky.social & @janahollingsworth.bsky.social found some new ones and tell them beautifully. No paywall:
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Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
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Happy Friday!
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Happy Friday!
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Now do Umbrella Man
#TweetsFrom2020
#TweetsFrom2020
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Now do Umbrella Man
#TweetsFrom2020
#TweetsFrom2020
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Do Animals Know That They Will Die?
An existential mystery
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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How do you replace magical thinking with critical thinking? Question for our #SciWri25 plenary speaker but it really is the true challenge of our times. 🧪#ScienceSky
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How do you replace magical thinking with critical thinking? Question for our #SciWri25 plenary speaker but it really is the true challenge of our times. 🧪#ScienceSky
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I've said it before: everything giant pandas do makes more sense if you imagine they are six drinks in on a Friday night.
But I feel like we haven't fully celebrated their triumphant return. See, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is no longer Endangered.
A conservation success story!
But I feel like we haven't fully celebrated their triumphant return. See, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is no longer Endangered.
A conservation success story!
a panda bear is sitting on a wooden platform with toys
Alt: a panda bear is sitting on a wooden platform with toys, it barrels through them, falls, and manages to roll down every part of the stairs, as if on purpose. Just agent of chaos behavior.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I've said it before: everything giant pandas do makes more sense if you imagine they are six drinks in on a Friday night.
But I feel like we haven't fully celebrated their triumphant return. See, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is no longer Endangered.
A conservation success story!
But I feel like we haven't fully celebrated their triumphant return. See, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is no longer Endangered.
A conservation success story!
Very excited to let Equifax feel the bumps on my skull.
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Very excited to let Equifax feel the bumps on my skull.
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Guy: How many puppies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Do you know yet?
Me (in a sea of puppies): No, they haven't done it. Bring more
Me (in a sea of puppies): No, they haven't done it. Bring more
November 21, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Guy: How many puppies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Do you know yet?
Me (in a sea of puppies): No, they haven't done it. Bring more
Me (in a sea of puppies): No, they haven't done it. Bring more
I have a flight tomorrow.
a cartoon character is sitting on a bus and says " chuckles "
ALT: a cartoon character is sitting on a bus and says " chuckles "
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I have a flight tomorrow.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Not washing hands well enough while going between cooking and the toilet, would be my guess.
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Not washing hands well enough while going between cooking and the toilet, would be my guess.
My favorite is when she just kinda stands around looking like she forgot what she was doing.
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My favorite is when she just kinda stands around looking like she forgot what she was doing.
Another oil change, another proof of life on my mechanic’s cat, who has reached the age of 24.
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Another oil change, another proof of life on my mechanic’s cat, who has reached the age of 24.
Something like this would actually be interesting as an exercise in public understanding what is actually wrong with Frey’s governance. And I think is also guaranteed to make anyone who does it look like a crank. Which is a shitty paradox.
Humbly requesting that @omarfatehmn.com and @dewayneforminneapolis.com create the Minneapolis equivalent of a Shadow Cabinet to respond to every single decision the Mayor and Council make during the next four year. Document how things could be better. Armchair the hell out of that quarterback.
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Something like this would actually be interesting as an exercise in public understanding what is actually wrong with Frey’s governance. And I think is also guaranteed to make anyone who does it look like a crank. Which is a shitty paradox.
Analysis of Ward 5 election from somebody who lives in Ward 5.
Couple things I haven’t seen on here:
1) Jeremiah Ellison has not done a great job of constituent relations. He’s got a reputation for not being responsive (whether that’s fair or not IDK. I’ve heard arguments both ways.)
Couple things I haven’t seen on here:
1) Jeremiah Ellison has not done a great job of constituent relations. He’s got a reputation for not being responsive (whether that’s fair or not IDK. I’ve heard arguments both ways.)
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Analysis of Ward 5 election from somebody who lives in Ward 5.
Couple things I haven’t seen on here:
1) Jeremiah Ellison has not done a great job of constituent relations. He’s got a reputation for not being responsive (whether that’s fair or not IDK. I’ve heard arguments both ways.)
Couple things I haven’t seen on here:
1) Jeremiah Ellison has not done a great job of constituent relations. He’s got a reputation for not being responsive (whether that’s fair or not IDK. I’ve heard arguments both ways.)
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The world is incredibly old. Evolution and extinction are constant realities. And in the mornings, I can still hear dinosaurs calling to each other, hundreds of millions of years of tuning behind each squawk and song.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The world is incredibly old. Evolution and extinction are constant realities. And in the mornings, I can still hear dinosaurs calling to each other, hundreds of millions of years of tuning behind each squawk and song.
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UPDATE: There are 39,205 ballots that didn't rank Frey or Fateh #1.
Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright.
If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright.
After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes.
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright.
If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright.
After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes.
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
2025 Mayor results
This race requires ranked-choice tabulation on November 5.
vote.minneapolismn.gov
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
UPDATE: There are 39,205 ballots that didn't rank Frey or Fateh #1.
Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright.
If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright.
After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes.
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright.
If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright.
After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes.
vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...