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Unlike that of the rest of southeast Asia, Pakistan's gas demand has been falling. Pakistan's solar boom is partly attributable to excellent do-it-yourself videos on Tiktok and youtube, and partly to two other factors, says Zainaab Basil in an interview with BNEF. www.bnef.com/insights/40017
Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from August 5, 1906.
☁️ Yesterday evening, a giant hole suddenly opened in the clouds over Mount Hood, Oregon. Known as a Fallstreak Hole, this rare phenomenon forms when supercooled cloud droplets freeze into ice crystals, leaving behind a dramatic circular opening in the sky.
Water is returning to the African Sahel. After the catastrophic droughts of the late 20th century, aquifers from Senegal to Ethiopia are refilling, water tables in Niger have risen four metres, and Lake Chad has swollen to ten times its mid-1980s size. Yale E360 buff.ly/SUrDAnL #ShareGoodNewsToo
After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel
Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists,…
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Forest foraging. No other mushrooms with the drought, but this one is perfect for lunch.
Ray Bradbury’s 1950 story, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, starts with a household AI reminding its owners of their appointments. But nobody is listening; they have all been killed in a nuclear war.
Cool new undescribed fossils coming from the Shenzhen Natural History Museum. A mass mortality bed of oviraptorids, and two new specimens showing nesting behaviour
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from July 31, 1910. Yep, people used to get this in their Sunday comic section in the newspaper.
#GlassObjectThursday 🏺 BM's Portland Vase c. 15BC-AD25: one of world's top #Roman cameo glass pieces. Interpretations both mythological and historical are legion. Maybe marriage of Peleus and sea goddess Thetis?? Visitor deliberately smashed it into >125 bits in 1845: BM restoration lasted 100 yrs.
First Nations in Canada are leading efforts to return salmon to the Upper Columbia Basin, nearly a century after the Grand Coulee Dam blocked their passage. Studies confirm reintroduction is feasible, offering a path toward restoring cultural connections & food sovereignty. Ruth Kamnitzer reports.
First Nations lead the return of salmon to Canada’s Upper Columbia River
INVERMERE, Canada — Mark Thomas, Shuswap Band salmon chief, welcomes groups of students to a narrow stretch of the Columbia River, between the Rocky and Purcell mountains in western Canada. It’s late…
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I get the sex is the draw here, but I feel we're sleeping on the fact that they open the mouth of the blue whale on Swedish election days. Leads to far more interesting questions.
jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
Apartments just finished in Tehran Some remarkable organic terraces created with what looks like terracotta cladding. The architect is Alireza Taghaboni
"He kept office hours at the Dunkin’ Donuts across the street from his apartment in a building on rue Beaubien. With powdered sugar on their fingers, the staff collected his mail and took phone messages for him. Antonio would return calls from a nearby payphone"
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 7d agoAntonio Barichievich, a.k.a. the Great Antonio, made a name for himself by pulling buses, wrestling bears, and telling impossible stories. Here, writer Daniel Allen Cox revisits the life—and lore—of a Montreal legend: https://thewalrus.ca/the-great-antonio/
Bagpipes - the first defence against alien invaders? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Banbury bagpipes - the first defence against alien invaders?
Oxfordshire piper's tunes could soon make it to the moon under the plans of an space entrepreneur.
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Africa is smashing all the solar records. The continent installed more grid-connected solar in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025, and with projects under construction the year could finish at triple the previous record. buff.ly/NirgzLn #ShareGoodNewsToo
African 2026 on-grid solar additions surpass those of 2025 | African Energy
The latest analysis from African Energy Live Data shows despite a slow 2025, solar capacity additions in 2026 have already surpassed each previous year. Falling costs and several recent agreements…
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Boy playing the flute. A brilliant, absolutely brilliant, composition. One of the all-time best. Moves me every time I look at it. By Judith Leyster, star of Haarlem, 1635. It's her day.
The unit can be charged in temperatures from -4 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit apple.news/A1BCkBhVPTe-...
Europe gets a sodium-ion home battery rated for 27 years, without the fire risk — The Cool Down
The unit can be charged in temperatures from -4 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Jul 26, 2026 A new kind of home battery is beginning to reach households — and it could offer a safer, longer-lasting backup ...
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The legendary "walking bed" page from Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was published on July 26, 1908. If there’s a Mt. Rushmore for Sunday pages, this one is certainly on it.
Fossil, Cup corals and Crinoid segments - body parts of ancient marine creatures that lay scattered here on an ocean floor over 300 million years ago. County Donegal, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours
ridiculous. what kind of evolutionary niche created that strange head?
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs.bsky.social · 2w agoStop! Hammer fly time! El Septimo Paraíso, Mindo, Ecuador
Growing up in Guilin, new Fields Medalist Hong Wang found math to be one favorite thing among many, alongside badminton, table tennis, Greek myths, The Lord of the Rings, and evening walks in what is often called China’s “most beautiful city.”
Hong Wang Wins 2026 Fields Medal, the Third Woman Ever | Quanta Magazine
Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.
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With today's theft of Vix torc, here's what has been taken... The torc was found as part of a burial & placed around neck of the interred. Despite its size, it weighs only 480g (less that half the weight of the Snettisham Great torc). It is STUNNING. #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs 🏺 1/2
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
