Currently reading: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle 📚
ER docs worry over extreme heat as a ‘mass casualty event’
In Phoenix, where daytime temperatures are topping 110 degrees Fahrenheit for the third straight week, emergency room doctors think of extreme heat as the public health emergency it has proved itself to be: In 2022, Arizona’s Maricopa County reported a 25% increase in heat-related mortality from the previous year.
kottke.org, Jason Kottke: Instruction Manuals for 6000+ Lego Sets, Courtesy of the Internet Archive
Announcing The Laundry Files 2nd Edition | Cubicle 7 Games
I’m so excited for this one!
Nautilus: A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished
For weeks, Adam Smith had been crunching the raw data from more bird statistics than anyone had ever tried before—thirteen different bird counts and millions of radar sweeps. Suddenly he heard the musical chime that tells him his results are ready. He leaned across his desk, surrounded by enough high-powered computers to heat up his entire office, and stared at what could only be an impossible conclusion: Over the past fifty years, his calculations found, a third of North America’s birds had vanished.
NYT: To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats
Dr. Munday noted that covering half the Sahara, or any contiguous surface, with that much radiative material shouldn’t happen for a number of reasons, among them practicality, wildlife concerns and weather disruptions caused by one region suddenly becoming much cooler.
Wirecutter: “Why We Love Lego”
I have a stack of bricks at my desk that I use as a fidget toy to help me think during meetings. I stack and unstack the tiny tower of three by two bricks, hearing the satisfying click as I break them apart and put them back together.
This is how I get through every phone conference and zoom meeting.
Florida Republican women say they will switch parties after DeSantis approves alimony law:
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure that will overhaul the state’s alimony laws, after three vetoes of similar bills and a decade of emotional clashes over the issue. The measure (SB 1416) includes doing away with what is known as permanent alimony. DeSantis’ approval came a year after he nixed a similar bill that sought to eliminate permanent alimony and set up a formula for alimony amounts based on the length of marriage.
“…it was also bad to suffer the terror of monotony”