NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

NASA's Blue Marble picture of Earth, from 1972

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

The Pet Shop Boys on their life in fashion [FREE TO READ] The pop duo’s style reflects changing menswear trends since the 1980s

I genuinely cannot find an april fool story anywhere so here are the Pet Shop Boys talking about their "ghost outfits" as.ft.com/r/17d7a1d4-0...

If fertiliser isn't moving through the Strait of Hormuz in two weeks' time, we won't be debating any more, we'll be sending in aid. If it's not moving in four weeks, we'll be managing instability. It's time to act on the agricultural calendar, not the diplomatic one.

Grim. Every week this goes on is compounding the collective price paid. www.ft.com/content/c139...

The lower value coins had baby animals on them because they were the ones children were more likely to have 🥹

Irish coins of different sizes, showing a horse, salmon, bull, hare, hound, hen, pig and woodcock

In 1926, as a member of the Irish Senate, W.B. Yeats enthusiastically took charge of the committee designing new coinage for the Irish Free State. Yeats decided the different denominations should be symbolised by different animals (was he consciously thinking of this as the “tails” side?) 1/2

Yet more proof the general public do not know what they are talking about.

“When I was twenty-two, I was the number one competitive debater on the continent of Europe.”

Sally Rooney’s ‘Even if you beat me’, from 2015

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda
It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

Why do we keep pretending that ‘cost-saving’ is at the top of what matters to us in public health? This is an economic priority, not necessarily a health one. We get too sucked into trying to be ‘pragmatic’ & lose sight of the notion that such an ideological stance is a choice not an inevitability.

British values

Public health policies and interventions to address health inequities in high-income countries: an umbrella review - BMC Public Health Background Health inequity: defined as systematic and avoidable difference in health outcome, remain entrenched across high-income countries, with socioeconomic gaps in life expectancy exceeding 7–10 ...

"...interventions characterised by low agentic demand: welfare reform, housing support, and legislative measures; yield the most consistent reductions in inequity"

Jatinder Hayre, Ellie Canning, Helen Pearce, Raj Khera & John Ford

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#SDoH

Love the le Brocquy Táin illustrations. They're a gorgeous collection, and this one is a great choice! Looking forward to reading this.

Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.

Private equity owns lion’s share of children’s foster ser... Three London firms are now the biggest players in the provision of foster carers in England

Private equity owns lion’s share of children’s foster services in England, ‘bleeding the sector of money’.

Profits margins of 19%. Money extracted in interest payments, intragroup charges. Children suffer.

Ban profit-taking entities from foster services.

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

Bad idea, or just back-and-forth policymaking?

A picture is worth 1000 words...

This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.

Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.

Chapeau!