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Johan Rockström, TED (YouTube): The Tipping Points of Climate Change — and Where We Stand
We’re nearly halfway through the 2020s, dubbed the most decisive decade for action on climate change. Where exactly do things stand? Climate impact scholar Johan Rockström offers the most up-to-date scientific assessment of the state of the planet and explains what must be done to preserve Earth’s resilience to human pressure.
If you watch one video about the state of climate change, this is the one to watch today.
*WalesOnline newsletter (Substack): Why Cardiff is so at risk from climate change
Cardiff is actually one of the most at risk cities in the world when it comes to climate change. A few years back research looked at the cities which were most vulnerable to global warming.
Christopher Barnatt – Explaining Computers (YouTube): Switching to Linux: A Beginner’s Guide
How to switch from Windows to Linux, including reasons to switch, applications, distros, testing, installation and broader migration.
NYT: America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny
A conservative estimate holds that there are 240 billion pennies lying around the United States – about 724 ($7.24) for every man, woman and child there residing, and enough to hand two pennies to every bewildered human born since the dawn of man. (To distribute them all, in fact, we’d have to double back to the beginning and give our first six billion ancestors a third American penny.) These are but a fraction of the several hundreds of billions of pennies issued since 1793, most of which have suffered a mysterious fate sometimes described in government records, with a hint of supernaturality generally undesirable in bookkeeping, as “disappearance.” As far as anyone knows, the American cent is the most produced coin in the history of civilization, its portrait of Lincoln the most reproduced piece of art on Earth. Although pennies are almost never used for their ostensible purpose (to make purchases), right now one out of every two circulating coins minted in the United States has a face value of 1 cent. A majority of the ones that have not yet disappeared are, according to a 2022 report, “sitting in consumers' coin jars in their homes.”
Globe: Investigative journalist Stevie Cameron dies at home in Toronto, age 80
Stevie Cameron, author of On The Take, a book on the Mulroney Airbus affair, … died Saturday at home in Toronto from Parkinson’s, her daughter Amy Cameron said, noting her mother also had dementia. She was 80.
Last Updated: 01.Sep.2024 23:44 EDT
