By Heidi Harley

science / science - 3 days ago

Uruguay, pioneer in renewable energy: a model for the world?

This is a& re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Johani Carolina Ponce Tacuarembó, Uruguay. (Image credit: Getty Images) [Haz clic aquí para& leer en español] It has a population of just under 3.5 million inhabitants, produces nearly& 550,000 tons& of beef per year, and boa...

science / science - 3 days ago

Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost

You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a variation on it last October: how do you celebrate the man who studied (nearly) everything? Physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes impacted disciplines from quantum information theory to biomedical imaging....

science / science - 4 days ago

2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #51

A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 15, 2024 thru Sat, December 21, 2024. Based on feedback we received, this week's roundup is the first one published soleley by category. We are still interested in feedback t...