Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Spektrum zur schnelleren Erderwärmung in den letzten zehn Jahren.
Wir sollten uns rascher aus der Abhängigkeit von fossilen Energien befreien. Viele Staaten tun das bereits.
www.spektrum.de/news/klimawa...
Apropos Heizung und Baden-Württemberg: Die Bundesländer dürfen strengere Vorgaben für Heizungen machen als der Bund. BaWü hat ein EEWärmeG, das Erste seiner Art. Verbindliche Vorgaben, Wärmeplanung schon fertig. Jetzt ratet mal, wer es aufheben will.
Nein, ist nicht egal, wer regiert
screenshot from website of new scientist shop: green book by author rowan hooper title “how to spend a trillion dollars” subtitle “saving the world and solving the biggest mysteries in science” blurb: ' hope everyone on Earth reads it' Kim Stanley Robinson How To Spend a Trillion Dollars
NewScientist How To Spend a Trillion Dollars ® ADD TO CART Hardback | 320 pages I Published 14/01/2021 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the advancement of science, what would you do? Its an unimaginably large sum, yet it's only around one per cent of world GDP, and about the valuation of Google, Microsoft or Amazon. You could solve the problem of the pandemic, for one, and eradicate malaria, and maybe cure all disease. You could end global poverty. You could settle on the Moon and explore the solar system. You could build quantum computers, develop artificial intelligence, or increase human lifespan. You could even create a new life form. Award winning writer Rowan Hooper is a senior editor at New Scientist and the host of the New Scientist Weekly podcast. How to Spend a Trillion Dollars is the ultimate thought experiment but it is also a call to arms: these are all things we could do, if we put our minds to it - and our money. 'In a world in which everything seems to be going wrong, this is a refreshingly optimistic book about what real solutions to the world's biggest problems could look like - and cost. Beautifully positive, lucid and accessible'. - Angela Saini, author of Superior
we could be so much better
everything is a choice
“how to spend a trillion dollars:
saving the world and solving the biggest mysteries in science”
#taxtherich
I am so sick of the BS from the US government.
Environmental groups in the United States and Canada are sounding the alarm about a U.S. government proposal to change a federal regulation introduced in 2008 to protect a critically endangered species of whale. #Canada
www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
we had almost managed to eradicate polio globally 😞
A black-and-white 19th-century steel engraving depicting Anna Komnene, the Byzantine princess and historian (1083–1153), shown in a seated three-quarter view within an interior setting. She is portrayed as a dignified, scholarly woman in medieval Byzantine-inspired attire: a long, flowing dark robe or mantle with wide sleeves and ornate trim around the neckline, fastened or adorned with a brooch or clasp at the chest. Her face is youthful yet composed, with soft features, downcast eyes focused intently on the open book before her, full lips, and a serene, contemplative expression suggesting deep thought or study. Her left hand rests gently on the pages of a large lectern-style book propped on a stand, while her right hand holds a quill. The background features subtle swirling ornamental patterns and faint architectural or decorative motifs, evoking a scholarly or monastic chamber. The engraving style is finely detailed with cross-hatching for shading and texture, typical of Victorian-era historical illustrations, signed in the lower area (possibly "J. Romney" or similar artist/engraver mark). The overall mood conveys intellectual pursuit, piety, and historical gravitas, idealizing Anna as the author of the Alexiad and a pioneering female scholar in Byzantine history.
Anna Komnene (1083–1153), one of the world’s first major female historians.
Wrote 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘥, a detailed account of her father Emperor Alexios I Komnenos’s reign. Her work constitutes the most important primary source of late 11th/early 12th century Byzantine history & of the early Crusades. #WHM
We've Drastically Underestimated Sea Levels, Putting Millions at Risk, Study Warns https://gizmodo.com/more-than-90-of-coastal-hazard-assessments-got-sea-levels-all-wrong-study-says-2000729448
ai “portraits” of groundbreaking women hanging in the ministry for research, tech & space.
“pretty” & in situations that never happened (eg “picture” of rosalind franklin with “her” nobel prize at an age where she was already dead)
germany’s female minister for research thinks that’s visibility
🤮
ai “portraits” of groundbreaking women hanging in the ministry for research, tech & space.
“pretty” & in situations that never happened (eg “picture” of rosalind franklin with “her” nobel prize at an age where she was already dead)
germany’s female minister for research thinks that’s visibility
🤮
Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.
Left: Black-and-white 1860s portrait of Louisa May Alcott seated at a small table, wearing a dark Victorian dress with a high collar and ribbon tie. Her hair is pulled back and up neatly, and she gazes calmly to the side with a thoughtful expression. Right: Modern paperback cover of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Signet Classics edition). Four young women in colorful 19th-century dresses and shawls stand arm-in-arm on a grassy hill, seen from behind, with the title in elegant blue lettering and "LOUISA MAY ALCOTT" in white at the bottom.
American novelist and poet Louisa May Alcott died #OTD in 1888.
Alcott’s most enduring work is the novel 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 (first published in 2 parts in 1868 & 1869). Never out of print, it has sold millions of copies worldwide in 50+ languages. #booksky #fiction #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM
who comes up with these ideas?!??
“test the effects of progesterone in women who had taken mifepristone:
were forced to end the study early due to a high rate of medical complications, including severe bleeding.
Not only is this method ineffective, but it can also be dangerous to women.”
ffs
Iran
Two supremely qualified women ran for POTUS. One won popular vote. The other was up against the wealthiest man in the world literally buying votes. Both women had the audacity to laugh unabashedly, referred to by men as 'cackling.
Yet here we are with a convicted rapist & seditionist at war.
Don’t let anyone ever tell you that your vote doesn’t matter. With every precinct reporting, the most powerful Republican in North Carolina is going down by *two* votes at the moment.
heute ein gespräch tief in cdu country mitbekommen:
“so ein schiet, wie kann es sein, diesel ist 10 cents teurer als super!!“
heute habe ich kurzfristig den kampf gegen die schadenfreude verloren.
@danielasepehri.bsky.social mit einer bewegenden Rede. Sie hält uns zurecht den Spiegel vor.
Via @funfactsde.bsky.social
nach unten treten scheint das einzige talent und vergnügen der cxu zu sein.
ein bisschen mehr inklusion hätte ihnen gut getan, i‘m just saying.
same detachment from reality in germany
I charged my EV last night (from 20 percent to 100 percent) and it cost me about $17.
Beyond the no gas, the car just rides so beautifully. Got it in July and cannot imagine ever going back to gas car.
Global Women*s General Strike am 9. März
Girls, Ladies, Frau*en, ihr seid dabei, hab ich Recht?
enoughgenug.org/de/
Huch, ist schon Freitag? Keine Sorge, ist es nicht. Wir veröffentlichen einfach 2 Tage früher. Es geht um den #Frauenstreik oder - um es intersektional zu formulieren - den #FeministischenStreiktag am 9. März 2026 und darum, warum es so vielen Frauen schwer fällt, Nein zu sagen oder zu streiken.
“ok, but what has the rules-based international world order ever done for us?”
shame. i kinda liked international law and cooperation.
Titelseite der taz vom 05.03.2026 mit einem Foto des spanischen MP Sanchez. Überschrift: "Spanien hat Mut, wir haben Merz"
So ist das. Auf den Punkt gebracht.
Trump und Merz im mit goldener scheiße voll gestellten Oval Office
Opas, die die Welt verbrennen.
Schande über Merz
Feuerwehr befreit Merz aus Trumps Hintern www.der-postillon.com/2026/03/merz...
such a fantastic result, women everywhere in the eu are safer because of it!!
Just last week the German government gutted the heating law which was supposed to drive a transition away from gas.
The timing could not have been worse: Gas prices are up 50% today and this crisis could worsen significantly. This will happen again and again and the consumer pays the price.
