Book Review: How Climate Change Is Reshaping America – Undark Magazine

What goes through a person’s mind when disaster strikes? In Jake Bittle’s “The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration,” an ambitious book that details the radical transformations climate change is wreaking on American life, we are given…

Book review of “The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change” by Geoff Dembicki – The Washington Post

Listen 7 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article In November 1959 Edward Teller, “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” told a group of oil company executives and scientists gathered at Columbia University that continued burning of fossil fuels…

Cloud Appreciation Day is September 16

Cloud Appreciation Day is September 16, 2022. Learn how to participate here and see a gallery of beautiful clouds.

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Book review: In sobering detail, Porter Fox describes the destruction wrought by climate change – Press Herald

On the corner of Boyd and Fox streets in Portland, a mural depicts a classic winter landscape with the message, in large letters formed by chunks of ice: STAY POSITIVE. It was a useful, if serendipitous, admonition as I came…

Covid And Climate Change: Fact-Checking The Fact Checkers

Fact-checking is a growth industry. According to the latest annual fact-checking census compiled in October 2019 by Duke Reporters’ Lab, there are at least 210 fact-checking platforms currently working in 68 countries. This nearly quintuples the number offered by the…

Covid Pandemic And Climate Change Facts: Fact Checking The Fact Checkers – Forbes

RUSSIA-MANIPULATED PICTURE-YEZHOV From left to right: Kliment Vorochilov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Josef … [+] Stalin and Nikolai Iejov aka Nikolai Yezhov, pose at the shore of the the Moscow -Volga Canal, in 1937. Yezhov was the senior figure in the NKVD…

How the Mind Can Be ‘Trained Like a Muscle’ to Focus – Through A Simple Change of Outlook

When people say “I get distracted easily,” what they’re really saying is, “I receive less of the absolute miracle that is “focus” than other people,” because when we consider the 10 million bytes of imagery data the eyes give the brain each second or the 6,000 spontaneous thoughts we have each day, it truly seems […]

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Charlie Munger: Global Warming is ‘a serious problem’ – Yahoo Money

The Daily Beast Stan Lee Was a Comics Saint Who Thought He Was God Michael Buckner/GettyIn 1983, Stan Lee, then Marvel Comics publisher, gave insight into his editorial feedback: “Hey, that shot is too weak. If you want a guy…

Bank Holiday Monday book review – Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard

This is a book about rediscovering, and reconnecting with, nature, as an adult. The preface sets the book up well and establishes the engaging tone. The author rediscovers all sorts of wildlife but bees are the co-stars of this account….

‘Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World’ (book review)

Author Cal Newport argues that it’s time to make hard decisions about our digital lives and embrace a ‘philosophy of technology use.’