We trawled the scientific literature for data about the likelihood of getting COVID from different situations, and combined the data into a model that people can use. We estimate COVID risk in units of microCOVIDs, where 1 microCOVID = a one-in-a-million chance of getting COVID.
Relevant: Micromort.
Sue them into oblivion.
The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing.
As recently as last month, six big oil CEOs were summoned to US Congress to answer for the industry’s history of discrediting climate science – yet they lied under oath about it. In other words, the fossil fuel industry is now misleading the public about its history of misleading the public.
Determined terminals.
Fig wants to reimagine your terminal, Warp to be a terminal that supercharges your developer workflow.
Machine learning may be breaking the West’s infatuation with certainty as the sign of knowledge.
The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection.
Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, 'radically different' way to see the world.
The story of my tattoo: ‘It sounds ridiculous, but it holds me to account’.
Symbols of hope, remembering a loved one, an adopted son, overcoming trauma.
The viewpoint of European colonisers has always been that everything exists for their use, and we’re witnessing the unsurprising outcome of centuries of that thinking.
Relevant: Whitey on the moon.
Was in Deutschland steuerlich begünstigt wird (via twitter.com).
A Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth.
An introductory educational resource that covers topics and best practices on how to support transgender and nonbinary young people.