Best interview Terry Gross ever did. Mostly because Manzarek barely let her get a word in edgewise. (h/t WayneR, I think)
Quote: “A sparkling and dusty scene from the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, about 160 000 light-years away.” Right next door, in fact. More images commemorating Hubble’s 35 Anniversary here. It was hard to pick just one. (h/t The Atlantic)
Quote: “Tame predictions versus wild reality: the rollout of solar is consistently underestimated. Actual global solar installations have smashed past all projections. From Nat Bullard: “Not much more to say than this technology, consistently underestimated, now adds more capacity to the global grid than anything ever and will soon add more power in any given year than anything ever as well.” This may be a good time to remind everyone of some of the previous stories of solar’s rollicking progress, including Europe’s record-breaking solar output and Pakistan’s solar shock. In some places, all government has had to do is get out of the way, as they’ve done in with balcony solar in Germany and Spain, and in Utah, where a bipartisan bill passed back in March allows portable solar systems to plug directly into 120V outlets…Oh, and don’t forget the big new push to electrify Africa, where mini-grids are rocking it in Nigeria and solar panels are being sold on the side of the streets in Niger.” (h/t Fix the News)
WHO members reach deal on how the world would tackle future pandemics. Quote: “This is a historic moment and shows that, with or without the United States, countries are committed to working together and to the power of multilateralism.” Thank you, Science, for ensuring that I never spent any time in an iron lung. (Reuters, via Fix the News)
From “Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary.” Quote: “Although it would later become famous as a verse in Interstellar People’s War, Organa first explained her doctrine’s essence to Wilhuf Tarkin himself: “The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” Heh. (from You Are Always Being Judged)
Quote for the day:
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.--Walt Whitman
Outro…
From “John Fogarty’s All Stars,” the best studio concert ever.
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