The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Global drought extremes in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment In 2025, global annual drought affected ~30% of the global land surface. Near-record warming substantially increased evaporative demand, triggering widespread meteorological and soil moisture drought,...

Global drought extremes in 2025

In 2025, global annual drought affected ~30% of the global land surface.

Drought is no longer just about rainfall.

It’s about temperature and evaporative demand.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Map of the US showing percent of normal precipitation for the last 30 days.

Large areas of the US received below normal precipitation over the last 30 days. The percent of normal precipitation map shows the Southeast, Central Plains and parts of the Southwest got 50% or less of normal precip, while a strip from West Texas to the Great Lakes got ample rainfall.
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First Maya molar with jade inlay from Popol Vuh Museum: the Maya had therapeutic dentistry with sacred materials 1,500 years ago

First Maya molar with jade inlay from Popol Vuh Museum: the Maya had therapeutic dentistry with sacred materials 1,500 years ago

No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions - Nature Communications Hominin dispersal out of Africa may have corresponded with exchanges of other fauna out of Africa. Here, the authors examine taxonomic and functional similarities in Eurasian and African fossil commun...

No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions

The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age

Trust your common sense: yes, a series of massive fossil fuel supply shocks is, in fact, going to radically accelerate the process of electrification & decarbonization.

Such a great leader for Canada at this time in its history. Well done, clearly messaged, zero posturing....just plain truth and a realistic call to grow into a stronger future....together.
#Canada

Solar Eclipse over Australia as seen by the NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)

The best movie scene from the bible

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

Keith Richards - I'm Waiting For The Man (Lou Reed Cover) (Official Video) YouTube video by Keith Richards

Keith Richards. Keef, covering Lou Reed's "I'm Waiting for The Man". That open-G tuning is so distinctive...unique.

“To me, Lou stood out. The real deal! Something important to American music and to ALL MUSIC! I miss him and his dog.” - #KeithRichards …

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

WHY?

'They suck': Lutnick criticizes Canada's trade strategy National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

MAGA hates us. They kiss Putin's ring but hate their neighbour.
They hate Canada because we are democratic. Because we refuse to bend the knee.
Because our economy is strongest in the G7.
There can be no peace between our nations until MAGA is defeated.
nationalnewswatch.com/2026/04/17/t...

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC

Before and after satellite imagery of the landslide this morning at Nizhny Ubekimakhi in Russia. Note the impounded lake on the east side of the landslide block, which is about 1 km wide. @planet.com @davepetley.bsky.social @glacierhazard.bsky.social

Farming began in the Fertile Crescent and spread steadily into Europe between 9600 and 4000 BCE. The map shows this slow wave of expansion, bringing crops, settlement, and population growth, and laying the foundations for European civilisation. Source: buff.ly/d32q85T

Again, if you want explain why trust in universities has declined in the last decade, & you don't benchmark that decline against contemporaneous declines in trust in <every other societal institution> in 🇺🇸, then you cannot identify variables internal to universities as the main or sole explanations.

This is on us. Active responsibility.

“The culture of male violence does not survive without the culture of male silence.

Every man who watches and says nothing is not a neutral bystander—he is an active enabler of a system that protects predators at the expense of survivors.”
@qasimrashid.com

China's electrification bet is paying off. Electricity now accounts for 30% of its energy consumption - 50% higher than the US or Europe.

With 1/3 of global renewable energy capacity already installed, China is structurally more insulated from rising oil prices than most Western economies.

This is a MUST READ for EVERY MAN. Thank you @qasimrashid.com for nailing this —- it is us, we men, that need to face this, own it, and change the situation.

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

An article I wrote for men about "Rape Academy."

Women already know this & I say this with full awareness of how uncomfortable it makes men: Most men are not safe to be around alone.

This is not sustainable & men must lead the change. Men, we need to talk: qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-nee...

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

THIS:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/men-we-nee...

I noticed that Outdoor Life republished the March 1969 Cecil Heacox Charmed Circle articles online today. I can't help but think my tracking the article down last month and sharing it widely prompted them to republish it. Who knows. www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/lege...

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

Just how bad is this spring’s drought?? The worst in US History, going all the way back to the 1890s, even worse than Dust Bowl springs. And #Florida is among the worst in the nation… 1/

posted without comment*

*many thanks to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Insane amount of snow! 😮

The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in Japan has opened today for the 2026 season.

This mountain route through the Northern Japan Alps is famous for its towering spring snow walls, which can reach up to 20 metres high.

"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV