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The idea that 2⁰C is a safe guardrail against global heating was a guesstimate by an economist almost fifty years ago, and it had a sketchy scientific basis even at that time. In November 2023, a consortium comprised of many of the top glaciologists and climate scientists in the world published a report entitled “The State of the Cryosphere 2023—Two Degrees is Too High.” (See also the review on Carbon Brief.)  The only hope of preventing catastrophic sea-level rise,

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Brexit has barely been mentioned during the election campaign – but the impact on businesses and the economy is so much worse than the public might think

Digital campaigners, the Open Rights Group (ORG) are helping the public to opt out of the processing of their data by political parties in the run up to the General Election. Political parties collect, buy and process data about people’s views, voting preferences and demographics. Data can be acquired in many ways, including through surveys […]

As a late-stage baby boomer, a child of the 1960s, I grew up dreaming about America’s nuclear triad. You may remember that it consisted of strategic bombers like the B-52 Stratofortress, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) like the Minuteman, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) like the Poseidon, all delivery systems for what we then called “the Bomb.” I took it for granted that we needed all three “legs” — yes, that was also the term of the time — of that triad to ward off the Soviet Union (aka the “evil empire”). It took me some time to realize that the triad was anything but the trinity, that it was instead a product of historical contingency. Certainly, my mind was... Read more

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Spain’s Deputy PM declares "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" as European nations increasingly reject Israel’s actions in Gaza.

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Israel’s been talking smack about invading Lebanon to occupy southern Lebanon up to the Litani River for some time. (The southern-most river on the map.)

Convenience stores are not known for luxury. They replicate our base desires, stocking shelves with only the most essential food groups: salt, sugar, and alcohol. But what kind of person would look at a 7-Eleven and say, “You know what this place needs? A brunch item.”

Apparently, I am that kind of person. Ever since the internet has made a cult following out of the egg salad sandwich from Japan’s 7-Eleven, I have been dreaming about such a sandwich coming to America. Photos show perfect cross-sections of cut sandwiches, pearlescent whites peeking out from bright yellow egg salad, thick and rich between two slices of fluffy milk bread.

We’re still fighting fascism June 6 is my parents’ anniversary. As a Boomer, I remember the date first for that. My father was too young for WWII. But my late father-in-law was not. He arrived in Europe after the D-Day invasion, but fighting as an infantryman and a scout for the 100th Infantry Division marked him for life. His shelves were filled with books on the war, on Hitler and the Nazis. As a young man, how could the rest of his life compare with that experience? But he rarely discussed the fighting.   Post by @ajsandyman View on Threads   Post by @therickwilson View on Threads In his things after he died, we found a Bronze Star Ken never mentioned. I discovered the Pentagon gave them out like party favors to soldiers who’d been in theater a decade or so after the war. So it was not something he’d brag about. He valued another medal more. We brought him to a Democratic fundraiser dinner once where Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia was the featured speaker. (You remember him. He lost three limbs in Vietnam.) They’d invited veterans. Our table was full of men Ken’s age.

Over eight million voters live in ‘one-party fiefdoms’ as over 100 parliamentary seats have been held by one party for a century or more

A new episode of Tales of the Tardis will only premiere in the UK just before the season finale of Doctor Who on June 20th. What's it about?

Dear Members of the Search Committee:

Well, here we are again. I am sitting in my sunroom, listening to the robins, crows, and jays, and I’m trying to type out a list of all my achievements so that you will like me enough to invite me for a Zoom interview and possibly a campus visit.

I already have a teaching job at a small college in South Georgia. You may not know this, but the reason that I can’t leave the South is because I live in Florida (about thirty-five miles from the school where I have taught for the last fifteen years) and Florida is a “men’s rights” state, which meant that after I got a PhD and left my abusive ex, I wasn’t able to move anywhere without giving up custody of my children, which I would never do.

My job isn’t terrible, but I’m underpaid, and I’m looking for better opportunities. You may be wondering why I’m even applying for jobs if I can’t really leave the state of Florida. Good question. I’m applying because maybe my ex will die.

Just kidding.

News that a Russian polar survey vessel found a vast oil field off the coast of the British Antarctic Territory has caused significant alarm

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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Harley Quinn, Criminal Minds: Evolution, Reacher, The Last of Us, The Boys, Doctor Who, The Acolyte, and more!

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George Cottrell was Farage's Chief of Staff until he was found guilty of wire fraud in 2017. He's now returned to the Reform leader's side as an advisor

‘We feel taken advantage of,’ says Katarzyna Krzysztofik, a healthcare assistant (HCA) at the University of Leicester NHS Trust. ‘We feel like we’ve been used for a very long time, and now we are angry, disappointed, and sad.’ Krzysztofik has worked at the trust since 2018 and, for all six years, has been carrying out […]

Could inequality be morally justified in a system of equal opportunity? How Rawls’s vision for democracy holds up 50 years on

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Selfishness channels ambition, envy drives competition, pride aids the win. Does it take a bad person to be a good athlete?

- by Sabrina Little

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Nostalgia was, in Freud’s day, an illness steeped in the past. Today, it can be a joyful emotion that reframes the future

- by Agnes Arnold-Forster

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Since the beginning of the conflict, about 90,000 southern Lebanese have been forced from their homes and at least 350 people have been killed

Ministers and civil servants condemned for lack of transparency and accountability with no one able to show actions "taken to hold leadership accountable"