The Ozone Hole: Bigger Connections

Well-done Cleo! This video offers great context centered around three important dates or decision points: 1959, 1987, and 2026. Watch the last minute or whole thing:

 

AI & Data Viz

Or, to make it simpler: Making charts with AI (as opposed doing it yourself with MS Excel). Good stuff here from the folks at Storytelling With Data: https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/ai-data-storytelling

485 Million Years!

Good WP article & PBS Terra video!

• The REAL STORY of Climate Skeptics New Favorite Graph
• Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.

What are the take-home messages? CO2 is the main climate driver and climate change is normal. Yep, but: the climate change we are measuring today is a) much faster than anything over the last 485 million years and b) caused by humans, not by nature.

Lean & AI

Lean is the hip thing in math these days, especially in connection with AI. That's all I know, but here's more: ‘It is incredible’: How AI is transforming mathematics

Pasterze Glacier (2016 - 2024)

Slop Tells & LLM Cliche Highlighter

Worried that your reports, slides, talks, etc. sound 'too AI' because you used too much AI to make them? Well, now you can use more AI tools to make your work sound 'less AI'. Great.

• Worried your writing sounds like AI? These tools can help
• Slop Tells
• LLM Cliche Highlighter

This reminds me a little of the good old EduBabble Generator & EduBabble Bingo.

August 2026 Glacier Collapse in Nepal

Here's what happend: a section of a glacier collapsed which trigged a landslide across a river valley that damed-up the river for a while before collapsing and triggering the flood. Yes, these events happen naturally, but it seems very likely that global warming and the associated destabiliztion of glaciers and permafrost 'loaded the dice' and increases the liklhood, magnitude, and intensity of such events.

More here: Glacier collapse caused Nepal’s deadly flash flood — a sign of things to come?