Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping point beyond which it cannot recover.
Jonathan Watts | The Guardian
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months
"The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can't be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020."
Matt McGrath | BBC News
As Animals Wash Up on West Coast, Scientists Look to Climate Change
Growing numbers of whales, sea lions, and seals are being found stranded or dead, alarming oceanic experts.
Abigail Summerville | The Wall Street Journal
Minipax - A New Open Source Font from VTF
Minipax is a typeface inspired by the novel 1984, from George Orwell. It has been vaguely influenced by the skeleton of the font used in my edition of the book (printed in 84 !). But more importantly, it’s been designed to fit with the atmosphere of the Orwellian dystopia.
Designed by Raphaël Ronot
The Road to Titan
President Trump has set his sights on the Moon. Elon Musk's are on Mars. But some of the edgier talk urges an even bolder national aim — a human mission to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Steve LeVine | Axios
Will the U.S. Be a Dystopian Hellscape in 2100 if Emissions Keep Rising?
The US is on a path to an unrecognizably hot future. Here’s what that looks like and how to change course.
Kristy Dahl, Senior Climate Scientist | Union of Concerned Scientists
For a Brief Moment in Every NASA Mission, Astronauts Become Designers
The surprisingly whimsical art of the space patch
Emily Ludolph | AIGA Eye on Design
ELLIS AND HITCH REUNITE FOR THE DARK KNIGHT’S 80TH ANNIVERSARY
Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, one of the most legendary creative partnerships in modern comic book history, reunite for THE BATMAN’S GRAVE, a twelve-issue monthly DC maxi-series about life, death and the questions most are too afraid to ask.
via WARREN ELLIS LTD
EPA Approves Bee-Killing Pesticide After U.S. Quits Tracking Vanishing Hives
The EPA has dropped restrictions on the use of a powerful pesticide known to be particularly lethal to honeybees for some 190 million acres of US cropland. The action came just days after the US Department of Agriculture revealed it had stopped tracking rapidly vanishing honeybee colonies.
Mary Papenfuss | HuffPost
First image of Einstein's 'spooky' particle entanglement
Scientists have captured the first ever image of a phenomenon which Albert Einstein once described as "spooky action at a distance".
BBC News
Interactive Map of UFO Sightings
This map is based on data from the National UFO Reporting Center. It includes over 90,000 reports of UFO sightings dating as far back as 1905. Each circle on the map corresponds to a reported UFO, with the size representing the number of UFO reports received. For any UFO reported by at least two people, details of all sightings are available by clicking on the circle.
Created by Max Galka
Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri
Starshot wants to build the world’s most powerful laser and aim it at the closest star. What could go wrong?
Kate Greene | MIT Technology Review
Five schemes for cheaper space launches—and five cautionary tales
Spaceplanes, giant rockets, tethers and catapults.
Konstantin Kakaes | MIT Technology Review
Meet Silicon Valley's UFO Hunters
A small group of venture capitalists and technologists believe that humans can capture and reverse-engineer UFOs — and that trying to do so might be a good investment.
MJ Banias | Motherboard
A new art and apparel brand — Club Kiddo
Dedicated to celebrating the awesome, the everyday and the imaginary.
A gender-neutral, modern kids brand — inspired by kiddos, for kiddos.
NYC Synth Duo Ghost Cop Showcase Their Love with 70s and 80s Horror in “ENHANCE”
NYC Synth duo Ghost Cop are back with another fantastic video from their debut LP released last November, One Weird Trick.
via POST-PUNK.COM
DRONEGOD$.mov
"Goodbye friends, see you on the other side."
via DRONEGOD$ YouTube
*from the pages of Infinite Detail
Sightings of these rare, shimmering clouds on the edge of space are on the rise. No one knows why.
They form 50 miles up, in a region of the atmosphere called the mesosphere. All of our weather-producing clouds live far lower — generally less than 50,000 feet — in the troposphere.
Sightings have been pouring in from the western half of the nation.
Matthew Cappucci | The Washington Post