Huh, rapeseed (canola) is also a brassica? xkcd really had it right...

Yikes https://www.aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/idaho-wants-to-jail-professors-for-teaching-about-abortion?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=pm&utm_medium=pm&initms=nat-dig-pm-awr-int-fb-social_feed-aclulal3-repro-feed_IdahoWantsToJailProfessors_20230816&utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=nat-dig-pm-awr-int&utm_content=fb-social_feed-aclulal3-repro-feed_IdahoWantsToJailProfessors_20230816&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=pm&ms=nat-dig-pm-awr-int-fb-social_feed-aclulal3-repro-feed_IdahoWantsToJailProfessors_20230816&utm_term=pm-6379839774995-6379839773395&fbclid=IwAR3dM942pJOH_9DK7GUkuxQFoOP4CkZ1pXZyjgJIJlw7vRaLjVZ_UgceYnU_aem_AewhKWCArb2cMwTwv6TDM5wmv2BNQKeumP9BuZPXqkGHfofOcuBeIqy9_2Lx8_v05W-CgEv9Nsr1DMqRjL9E1c8F

@steve great to see you here. Wish I had known earlier! Also can you point me to some critiques of Koonin’s book that addess his assertions about how bad climate modeling is

@futurebird not sure if you are aware of this issue!

@Ruth_Mottram what do you make of this? https://theconversation.com/antarctica-is-missing-a-chunk-of-sea-ice-bigger-than-greenland-whats-going-on-210665

@Ruth_Mottram my wife and I are planning to go to Iceland fr a few days and be in Copenhagen around August 25 then leave for Austria on August 31. Would love to meet you if you are available. I am a much better juggler than Gavin BTW!

@Ruth_Mottram hey. I am coming to Denmark mid august. Are you near Copenhagen then?

US decrease of life expectancy https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy

Amazing how highly educated people can ignore so much of reality to pursue destructive ideologieshttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19/the-ceo-of-anti-woke-inc

Well said Mr. Whitehouse https://twitter.com/senwhitehouse/status/1631107674828857344?s=12&t=LMK2m0TUgnkVtLIfDb7YcA