Kevin Schoenmakers

The increasing intermittency of….nuclear power stations:

Source: Financial Times | “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” on.ft.com/4fsSclS

American Book Center View details about American Book Center in The Hague, Netherlands on Apple Maps. Address, driving directions, images, nearby attractions and more.

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This sounds familiar. This must mean the economy of the US is going to grow by 5% next year, and the year after, and also the year after that.

For climate: climate.law.columbia.edu/content/clim...

De aarde warmt op en paaseitjes zijn dit jaar 30 procent duurder. Wat hebben die twee met elkaar te maken? Klimaatverandering zet de voedselprijzen onder druk. Die prijsstijgingen zijn niet enkel het resultaat van extreem weer, maar volgens onderzoekers hangen hittegolven en hogere aardappelprijzen wel sam...

Ik heb er onlangs over geschreven:

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‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says Exclusive: Increasingly extreme weather a threat to production and supply chains in Britain and elsewhere

I’ve felt for a while that there is surprisingly little discussion about the economic threat posed by climate change related inflation www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Climate change in action

Water stressed areas around the world form a band around the northern lower-to mid-latitudes

As if atmospheric circulation which carries heat from the equator to the poles has been disrupted

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One of the highlights of my career has been reporting on China & working closely with @zeyiyang.bsky.social. So I’m really excited to share that we’re launching a new newsletter together for @wired.com. It's called "Made in China."

You can sign up for it here: www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

New from me: How China's clean energy manufacturing boom is helping reduce CO2 emissions overseas. In 2024, China’s exports of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are shaved 1% off global emissions outside of China.

Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I wrote about solar energy's surge in the Global South, how it is bringing us closer to peak emissions, and how this undermines yet another argument popular among climate skeptics (but China and India...!). With comment from @euangraham.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social and others.

A supermarket worker handles bags of reserve rice released from government stockpiles in Tokyo on 31 May 2025. Credit: Newscom / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

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In The Mood For Love (25th Anniversary) - LAB111 Deze liefdeswals met fotografie van Wong Kar Wai’s favoriete cameraman Christopher Doyle, geldt nog steeds als een onovertroffen portret van ingehouden, gepassioneerde sensualiteit.

For those who are in the Netherlands and like Wong Kar Wai, they are screening In The Mood For Love (25th anniversary)

www.lab111.nl/movie/in-the...

AI is reinforcing the dominance of English in the workplace [FREE TO READ] Technology will make the world’s most spoken language more valuable, but speaking a more obscure one has advantages

In the age of English-language dominance and machine translation, demand for other languages in the workplace is collapsing. Very few job ads request French, hardly anyone learns Mandarin, etc. Me on how languages work at work, and when minor ones matter on.ft.com/44zDTIj

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

The Dutch Intersection Is Coming to Save Your Life Inspired by road safety innovations widely used in the Netherlands, several US cities are installing street crossings that can better protect pedestrians and bicyclists.

This article highlights Fremont's record-setting protected intersection construction (18 built, 15 more on the way), & how they're critical to encouraging participants from
@bikeeastbay.bsky.social's free adult learn to ride classes & other new city cyclists.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

With comment from @nickfalbo.bsky.social, @prinzrob.bsky.social, @modacitylife.com and many others!

The Dutch Intersection Is Coming to Save Your Life Inspired by road safety innovations widely used in the Netherlands, several US cities are installing street crossings that can better protect pedestrians and bicyclists.

I wrote for @bloomberg.com CityLab about how American cities looking to become safer and less car-dependent are adopting intersection designs inspired by the Netherlands

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

autocorrect really jumped the shark when it started replacing perfectly good words with more common words that it assumes you meant to use

Chinese University Expels Woman for ‘Improper Contact’ With a Foreigner The university published the student’s full name and said her behavior had “damaged national dignity.” The move prompted an online debate and accusations of sexism.

A Chinese university said it would expel a female student for "improper contact with a foreigner" and said her behavior had "damaged national dignity" after videos circulated online that suggested she had been intimate with a Ukrainian video gamer.

Hanif Abdurraqib is one of my favorite essayists, and essays like this are why. It’s beautiful.

Marc Andreesseenn (sorry I can’t remember how it’s spelled) would disintegrate from experiencing what a non-white person goes through

Screen shot of the home page of People’s Daily English-language site with a headline titled “Xi replies to U.S. youths pickleball cultural exchange delegation over China visit

Pickleball diplomacy on the top of People’s Daily English-language site right now

Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?

Our cover this week is of course Zohran. I wrote about the Democratic Party’s utter inability to reckon with the fact that their voters oppose the war in Gaza nymag.com/intelligence...

I'm where Bill is on the college applicant story. Read his mini-thread.

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

Foxconn Pulls Chinese Staff From India in Hurdle for Apple Foxconn Technology Group has asked hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, dealing a blow to Apple Inc.’s manufacturing push in the South Asian...

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A Japanese manga’s premonition of an impending natural disaster in Japan has gotten some tourists so wigged out that they are avoiding the country this summer, prompting government officials to try to dispel rampant rumors about the prophecy. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

War, Inflation and Now Drought Are Hitting Global Food Supplies

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/c...

NEW – Staple crops yields face ‘substantial losses’ in warming world – even with adaptation

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