Robert Lepage, PhD., P.Eng.

Hey you! Yeah you, but you in 20 years. That lung cancer you now have from breathing in decades of wildfire smoke? Yeah, the fossil fuel industry gave it to you.

Worker morale is low, so Jenny, our head of Talent and Culture, is instituting a Hawaiian shirt day. She has a mandatory seminar on how to add the company approved flair on your shirt so it complements your iron fetters.

Modern Companies: "hey flesh bags, work yourselves to an early grave to make my stonks increase by $0.02 or else I'll fire you"

Also MC: "nobody wants to work anymore. There's no company loyalty"

Not burning fossil fuels is a 3,000-year old solution to fighting extreme heat.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Abundance of book sales?

@patrickcanning.bsky.social, now that everyone is getting harmed, is class action tort likely to succeed?

Now put that half a pack a day on a whole city like #YYC breathing hundreds more smoke hours per year then ask what the health costs will be for that population over a lifetime & understand: you are owed no small amount of money by some of the richest people on the planet #SueBigOil #abpoli #cdnpoli

Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox? | Journal of The Royal Society Interface Previous studies show that city metrics having to do with growth, productivity and overall energy consumption scale superlinearly, attributing this to the social nature of cities. Superlinear scaling ...

”We propose a new resolution to the Fermi paradox: civilizations either collapse from burnout or redirect themselves to prioritizing homeostasis, a state where cosmic expansion is no longer a goal, making them difficult to detect remotely.”

#Collapse

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I saw another person wearing an N95 outside. Was super stoked. Did the knowing "nod" and went our ways.

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

Dr. Oransky said that the way scientists are rewarded for their work would have to change as well. “To paraphrase James Carville, it’s the incentives, stupid,” he said. “We need to stop making it profitable to game the system.”

hot off the press: huge infestation of crooked editors involved on paper mills unmasked. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

If the doors are made to be wheelchair accessible, I can get my Mk1-e without an issue. Tight, but doable.

Floral socks in birks?

Is the next step claiming "literacy is woke"?

Effects of uncoordinated electrification on energy burdens for natural gas customers - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Effects of uncoordinated electrification on energy burdens for natural gas customers

Interesting new paper from @energymorgan.bsky.social et al. "Households that dont electrify may bear a 46% increase in gas bills on average over the next 15 years (relative to current costs). Targeted electrification may help to alleviate energy burdens." #enegrySky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More folks should read the trinity study: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity...

If you can save 25x your annual living expenses, you should be able to maintain your current life style living just off the interest.

The view down a Vermont pasture hillside. The sky is an unnatural shade of grey and the sun is a red ball.

When even your early morning walk reminds you that you live now on a planet that will likely keep burning for the rest of your life. When you realize babies born in your community today likely will not know the deep blue summer sky of your own childhood.

With wildfire smoke blanketing much of North America, I was wondering how PM2.5 might affect leaves/needles. I understand the particulate can enter via the stomata and affect cellular functioning. Are deciduous or coniferous leaves more vulnerable? Or no real impact?

How does this apply to conifer needles?

"I would rather my constituents die from preventable respiratory disease than risk losing sponsors" is a choice.

Politicians: "we can't acknowledge wildfire smoke because it will make the CAPP angry, and healthcare has decided nothing bad is transmitted through the air".

Glad that worked for you. I mislabelled the plant. We have pycnanthemum tenuifolium growing in the front yard (partner, biologist, corrected me). Pollinators love it!

A barely visible blue winged black wasp dances on a white flower.

Picture!

Just had a new bug ID. Found an Isodontia philadelphica playing around in our pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) in Kitchener, ON.
For the #entomologists out there.
Hard to snap a picture because they were moving pretty fast.

A pink can from Lake of Bay's brewing. It has a logo of a Beaver wearing a blue ball cap backwards, drinking a beer. The beer name is called Dammit, it is a hazy light IPA.

Status update on wildfire smoke in Southern Ontario. Appropriate beer.

Certainly seems the whole GOP "Satanic child sex traffic ring" was another of those "accusation as a confession" things.

U.S. total employment and unemployment rate 1980-2029| Statista In 2023, it was estimated that over 161 million Americans were in some form of employment, while 3.64 percent of the total workforce was unemployed.

I'm half surprised he hasn't claimed "TRUMP" has created 161 MILLION AMERICAN JOBS!
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