This is bleak reading

Today I was talking with an Irish astronomer about the discovery of the first galaxies and I thanked him for helping me with one of the videos I’m working on over here. Then I mentioned one of the other videos is about peat bogs and he was like “my family has a bog, what do you want to know?”

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

#canada

This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.

(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)

Breaking News: The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The move guts the office responsible for oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

There are kids that did **online KINDERGARTEN** due to COVID that will now spend 4 years trying to grow in an education system that is being actively dismantled. The damage is so profound that it keeps me up at night.

Countries around the world are rapidly adding solar and wind capacity, now cheaper and more reliable than ever, a new analysis shared with The New York Times shows. Here's a country-by-country snapshot of existing clean-energy capacity on land, and where there’s room to grow.

“The regs slated for repeal, affecting…sources of pollution, had been set to deliver at least $254bn in economic benefits annually via lowered healthcare costs and fewer sick days [etc]. By contrast, the cost of complying with the regulations is around $40bn a year.”

apple.news/AwtejKUztQSm...

Happy Pi Day!

China’s Loess Plateau, once the world’s most eroded land, was revived through massive reforestation & conservation efforts. The project boosted biodiversity, reduced erosion, and transformed local economies.

tinyurl.com/59ry5e2b #Reforestation #ClimateAction #Conservation

Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy, an essay by me adapted from my book Everything Is Tuberculosis.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

When I was 25 I was sad I had not written The Great American Novel. At 55, I realize there's no Great American Novel, there are merely the stories I'm the best person to tell. Don't worry about how others see greatness. Work on being the best version of who you are and what you can do in the world.