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The Big Red Wave

[not that wave] Beautiful and damning climate visualizations from the Climate Lab Book. We’re boiling the ocean, and the earth, degree by degree. Below, annual global temperatures from 1850-2017 visualized. Guess what red means? [ via Boing Boing: Climate change… Continue Reading →

Forecast: Extremely Negative

Disconcerting trend. “1-in-5-year” events happening at a 50% clip? That’s no longer a 1-in-5 event. [ Vox: One of the clearest signs of climate change in Hurricanes Maria, Irma, and Harvey was the rain ]

Today is the Pi Day you need, maybe not the Pi Day you want

Here’s to having something that *is* more like Pi, not *looks* more like Pi. This Pi Day is Round from Vi Hart on Vimeo.

Why you should care about monohedral disk tilings

Because pizza. Use the pizza theorem, feed 2 men equally; use monohedral disk tilings, feed an infinite number of men equally. [ Gizmodo: Mathematicians Have Found Crazy New Ways to Cut Pizza Into Equal Slices ]

Earth + Venus = something about five-fold symmetry

Just look at it. Just look. [ Posted by redditor iBleeedorange, discovered via boingboing ]

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