Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report ‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

I went from Paris to a Rome last week and was unable to find a sensible rail route. This story specifically mentions the route and explains why. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A tub of “Hackney Gelato”

I may only live out in the provinces but thanks to Waitrose I can keep in touch with the latest Hackney cuisine

Would make for a tough game of Guess Who

Memo to civil servants to understand difference between loath and loathe

“Delicious poke”

Alas, it turned out to be food

Their ways of getting high do seem to differ from ours

Hot priests on the front cover of calendars

Anyone need me to bring a hot priests calendar back from Rome?

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The reported likelihood of Amoc collapse has increased from 5% to over 50%. 😬
Again and again, we need to brace ourselves for some of the worst-case scenarios and use our anxiety to drive action.

Pleased with this paper - from my student Khlood, who has come to Surrey from Saudia Arabia, with her children, and got on with a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics

me at a sign for Rue de Silly

I feel like I ought ot have done a Silly Walk when crossing this road

Great thread, diving into the data on how wealthier people drive more (except London) and how we're not helping the poorest if we assume they drive

List of words stating with T

Hmm my Chambers app has 392 4-letter words starting with T. Could keep me busy.

On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick by Jim Al-Khalili

From quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, & BBC host @jimalkhalili.bsky.social comes On Time, a mind-altering book that provides essential insights into the meaning & fundamental nature of time.

Available 1 September. Learn more:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Physics

you're making that up! But I did recently learn (on this fine site) that Australia had a footballer called Norman Conquest, which is just great en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_...

RIght, have just finished listening to "Time is Money (Bastard)" by the Swans, so time for bed and some sweet dreams.

They were removed with the ashtrays in the changing rooms

Is there a single professional footballer right now with anything close to a sideburn?

Roger’s Crouton Cafe

Spotify open on my tablet showing that I am listening to Crazy Frog

Probably none of the other spectators at this swimming gala suspect that I am listening to Crazy Frog

Away from home but need somewhere for a micro nap? Try dozr

“Paint sticks” bath crayons

Yes fortunately it does otherwise it would fall off walls.

Leadership 🇫🇷

Électrification : les mesures annoncées par le Gouvernement | info.gouv.fr VIDÉO. Leasing social, pompes à chaleur, voitures électriques… : la France accélère son électrification pour réduire sa dépendance au gaz et au pétrole et renforcer sa souveraineté. Le soutien à l’électrification atteindra 10 milliards d’euros en 2030.

The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification:

- a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026
- increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps
- 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030

For those who find international or national news too harrowing

A radiator unscrewed from the pipe work, ready to be taken off the wall

Things I have done this school holiday which are completely outside my comfort zone: taken a radiator off the wall since some friends of my son had partly pulled it off, reattached the brackets and put the radiator back. Would rather be solving Schroedinger’s equation

Map showing Hazledean Road, Croydon

I think of her whenever I’m in Croydon

I wonder what it tells us about brain ageing and the reconfiguring of neurons, that I found myself humming the opening titles for the kids TV show Jimbo and the Jet Set just now. I don't think i've thought about, or heard the music from, that show for years.

All-time Lowe

This is excellent. Look forward to sharing it with my undergrad students as a complement to our ongoing conversation about what they are giving up when they rely on LLMs.