Microsaurs (opens the source in a new tab)
Kind of the opposite of Godzilla
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Climate Change Heterodoxy
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Tesla to Build Australians the World's Largest Battery (opens the source in a new tab)
Just a scaled up car battery. Several orders of magnitude though...
When Will It Make Sense to Defect from the Electrical Grid? (opens the source in a new tab)
2028, but partial defection with solar and large batteries much sooner
Too little CO2 almost killed mankind (opens the source in a new tab)
During the last Ice Age, CO2 dropped to 180 ppm - not good for plants
Metformin for Life Extension (opens the source in a new tab)
Also discussed here
Humans mating with Neanderthals 219,000 ya (opens the source in a new tab)
Which would have been tricky, seeing as we hit Europe 60kya
Tylenol kills kindness (opens the source in a new tab)
Apparently acetaminophen reduces empathy for other people's pain
Skull cult discovered at Göbekli Tepe (opens the source in a new tab)
No evidence of Conan the Barbarian or Arnold Schwarzenegger, however
Toxic waste from solar panels worse than nukes (opens the source in a new tab)
300 times worse? Maybe not, but a legit issue
Smithsonian Mag on Life Extension (opens the source in a new tab)
featuring Aubrey de Grey and his beard
The Mammoth Pirates (opens the source in a new tab)
Was imagining eyepatches, swords and woolly mammoths. But still cool.
Killer Whales Stalking Boats (opens the source in a new tab)
This is just too awesome for words.
Climate models and climate reality vary – greatly (opens the source in a new tab)
if the model doesn't model, what's it for?
We are not in the midst of mass extinction (opens the source in a new tab)
If we’re really in a mass extinction, go get a case of scotch
How best to view the coming apocalypse (opens the source in a new tab)
I mean, view the coming eclipse
Return of the son of Bearcam (opens the source in a new tab)
Live from Brooks Falls, Alaska
2017 Global temperatures are leveling off (opens the source in a new tab)
without a strong El Nino to boost temps, global temps stabilize
Chimps still pretty badass (opens the source in a new tab)
1.5 times our strength, pound for pound. But we can go the distance.
Oldest human fossils found in Morocco (opens the source in a new tab)
Half again older than previous oldest, supports multiple origins