Image: Coastline, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
I recently finished There Is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee, and it's the best book I've read so far about the Climate Emergency. It covers every area of society and describes the changes needed in enough detail to give you a good overview. If you have climate anxiety, this book is a good place to start to get some climate hope. We know why and what changes need to happen, we just need the ambition and political will to do it.
Image: Søren Rysgaard
In September 2023, a 200m high tsunami sloshed inside a fjord every 92 seconds in Greenland for 9 days, caused by climate change melting ice at the base of a glacier which sent 25 million cubic meters of ice crashing into the water. An international and interdisciplinary team of scientists discovered the cause of the mysterious seismic signal using satellite imagery and computer simulations, and have published their findings in Science.
Image: Giliam de Carpentier
Inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest sculptures, Giliam de Carpentier built a walking pod coffee table, which is controlled wirelessly using a Wii remote. He also open-sourced the leg linkage design.
Image: Quantinuum
Microsoft announced a breakthrough in using more logical qubits with error correction in Quantinuum chips, allowing simpler error correction with the added flexibility of moveable ion based hardware qubits. Microsoft also plan to abstract all the error correction layers away from the customer interface layer of their Azure Quantum Cloud service.
Image: Hannah Ritchie
Hannah Ritchie posted another great Sustainability by numbers post, this time about the relationship between individual climate action and systemic climate action. Both are needed, and individual action has the power to encourage and support systemic change.
A new think tank focussed on helping solve housing, infrastructure, and innovation issues in Ireland has launched. In their founding essay, Progress Ireland describe how emulating solutions from other countries on problems that are important, tractable, and neglected, can be used to jump start Ireland's economic growing pains.
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