Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

Hoy es 26 de noviembre. En tal día como hoy, pero hace 32 años, en 1993, estaba todo agobiado porque se inauguraba oficialmente el Planetario de Pamplona. .El @pamplonetario que habíamos creado con un equipo de gente estupenda y llena de ilusión por contar historias del cielo, por hablar de ciencia en la plaza pública, por traer la cultura y el debate a Navarra, se ponía de largo con la presencia de las autoridades.

Ahora, 32 años después, no queda nadie de ese equipo en el centro, que está cerrado y vete a saber cuándo lo abren. Ahora subcontratan actividades para cubrir el expediente pero ese motor cultural que nos llenó de ilusiones no existe, ni parece que vaya a volver nunca. Ya no hay proyecto propio, ni gente que lo lleve adelante. Y eso es un robo que se nos ha hecho a toda la ciudadanía navarra.

Feliz triste cumple, Pamplonetario. Rescato un texto que escribí hace dos años sobre "El Planetario de Pamplona: 30 años de cultura científica en Navarra" para la revista Príncipe de Viana (no. 285 , 2023)
https://revistas.navarra.es/index.php/PV/article/view/2683/2494

(No sabía entonces que luego acabaría súbitamente fuera, que se iba a incendiar después ni que el proyecto que habíamos creado se iba a desmantelar así sin ningún reconocimiento ni información)

También en el blog: https://javarm.blogalia.com/historias/79240

Want to know what climate change will look like?

The drought in Tehran has gotten so bad that people are seriously talking about evacuating the city!

"Tehran — the richest city of Iran, the most politically powerful city with more than 15 million in the metropolitan — is facing day zero in a few days or a few weeks," said Kaveh Madani, director of the United Nations University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health.

"Day zero" means NO WATER.

All of Iran is in a drought — the worst in nearly 60 years. Tehran has had no rain at all since the start of September, and no rainfall is expected for the foreseeable future.

The city depends on five major reservoirs for its water: Lar, Latyan, Amir Kabir, Mamlu and Talegan. Lar Dam is at only 2% of its capacity, while Latyan is 9% full. Amir Kabir, one of the most important dams for Tehran, is 11% full. Mamlu reservoir is only 1% full. Only Taleqan remains above one-third.

Right now the incompetent government is *talking* about rationing — but water pressure is already down to zero at night in many neighborhoods. Young Tehranis are tracking water pressure with crowd-sourced maps, shading parts of the city in red to show almost constant outages. Meanwhile, some rich neighborhoods still fill their swimming pools.

I'm not saying this drought is solely due to climate change, nor that climate change will cause droughts everywhere. But this is the sort of thing we should expect: prolonged droughts in some areas, leading eventually to mass migrations.

https://peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/makran-or-bust-tehrans-water-crisis

Hey, have you heard about the "Sweet Track"?

It's this ancient wooden walkway discovered in the British Isles that's over 5,800 years old. Can you believe it? It's actually the second oldest timber trackway they've found in the area.

This cool pathway was built to help people cross the marshy terrain back in the Neolithic days. The way it’s been preserved really shows how resourceful our early ancestors were.

#archaeohistories

Methods of preservation:
Pickling - we make the environment too acidic for rot.
Salting - we make the environment too salty for rot.
Drying - we make the environment too dehydrated for rot.
Freezing - we make the environment too cold for rot.
Fermentation - we embrace the rot.

Can we just replace "influencer" with "internet dipshit" for clarity's sake?

It’s a fascinating thing to watch a video essay like this (The 1950s Ruined Everything, the points therein I am 110% in agreement with) and realize *just how much* our relationship (at least in America) with urbanism, art, and technology is either a MASSIVE reset to undo the many harms of that era, or a societal struggle to wrestle with the very real harms perpetuated today by self-serving capitalists who have yet to acknowledge the dangers of such a failed worldview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JQvNVn3nrM&feature=youtu.be

Migrants didn't cut council funding.
Migrants didn't raise energy bills.
Migrants didn't close community centres.

Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1