Alistair Munro

"Dorfman’s intellectual style is based on deep & painstaking mastery of theoretical fundamentals, leading to clear intuitive grasp of analytical questions" (AEA, 1982)

Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social

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The Case Against Climate Doom This open access book provides hope against climate pessimism and outline practical ways to combat climate change.

Read more in my (open access) book on climate optimism: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

高市の演説、日本をアメリカに置き換えるとほとんどトランプの演説になるのポイント高いですね

lmu-osc.github.io/introduction... Just sharing, in case.

Looks like the witches of Scotland have been using Evanesco again.

Public or private, an enterprise that has no money to pay its workers or suppliers must eventually close. The American federal government is currently teaching the world how this works.

A hospital that runs continuously in the red will be unable to pay its staff at some point or will have to cut services. Eventually it must close.

‘Most’. Can you name one?

Toyota steps up high-speed EV charger installations at dealerships The carmaker aims to have 500 fast chargers installed at dealerships in Japan by the end of March 2026.

Toyota Motor plans to install 500 more high-speed chargers for electric cars at dealerships in Japan — a goal that falls short of a pledge it made to install 10 times that number.

Now I'll have to read it again.

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

What’s the largest economy missing from that graphic? Answers on a postcard to Nagatachō

Apparently, meant to be taken literally

Earth’s oven window—one small area, spread over four neighbouring countries, contains the five cities that have passed the title of hottest city on earth between them over the past two decades:

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Mitsumasa Anno (安野 光雅) works on display at Mito’s Ibaraki Museum of Modern Art

If you’re raising a child in Japan, you’ll probably have come across the beautiful illustrations of Mitsumasa Anno (安野 光雅). Here’s 7, now showing along with other numbers, in a delightful retrospective at Mito’s Ibaraki Museum of Modern Art.

A message particularly for the ambiguity averse.

Four floors below ground. We could walk round 1/4 of the SuperKEKB, the main collider, but we weren’t allowed to touch the neutrinos.

Graph showing: Chinese new passenger car sales by type: Monthly

The rise and fall of the internal combustion engine, China edition.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Brazil Lobbies EU, China to Join COP30 Carbon Market Coalition Brazil is trying to build a coalition of countries, including the European Union and China, to unify carbon markets globally as it prepares to host this year’s COP30 climate summit.

"The EU and China have expressed interest in joining the agreement, which may make it one of the most significant outcomes of the November summit..." Let's hope!!

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Looks nice, but 1. You've swapped Poorest and Richest labels, at least for the housing category.

2. First figure shows share inequality not spending inequality, a very different thing. e.g if quintile 5 has the same share as quintile 1 it will be spending several times as much.

New postage stamps issued to mark the Railway 200 anniversary To mark the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway, the Royal Mail has issued a new set of 10 stamps - perfect for railway fans to use on their Christmas Cards.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway, the Royal Mail has issued a new set of 10 stamps – perfect for railway fans to use on their Christmas Cards.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/new...

Map of the photon factory at KEK

Signs a the superKEK particle accelerator

Annual open day at #KEK. 4,000 people wandering around a high energy physics lab has to be peak Tsukuba

Nippon Foundation's Sasakawa meets head of Russian Orthodox Church The Russian church is seeking dialogue with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the honorary chair of the foundation says.

Nippon Foundation Honorary Chair Yohei Sasakawa met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church during a visit to Moscow, during which he learned the Russian church is seeking dialogue with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

It’s a great paper, but then counterpunishment …

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ogre-like FDR & Churchill sporting quite undergarments as they stare down a tasty cow (labeled "Asia") armed with Japanese swords for horns

From a Feb. 1942 edition of the satire magazine Manga

not trying to sound sceptical but it’s more credible if you give a link to the fuller information source

Eminem

Didn’t Steed serve in Italy?

The interesting thing is the y-axis. At this rate, foreigners will take over Japan in only 250,000 years.

Too close.