CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Tomorrow in the dead of night (OK, about 10pm JST that seemed far more reasonable when I agreed to it months ago), I'm giving a virtual talk on exoplanets at the UNISEC-Global meeting: https://unisec-global.org/virtual-meeting.html

@cafuego are we even still alive? Probably not Or we're considered particularly tough.

Nowadays, Tokyo sits in the "non-survivable" regime (for 6 hours outside) for long swarths of the summer. And each summer that I've lived in the city has become progressively hotter and longer.

In 2021, I joined a co-working space because I couldn't keep my apartment cool and dark enough to avoid migraines. That's a ludicrous amount of privilege.

"According to the medical journal the Lancet, heat extremes caused an estimated 546,000 deaths every year between 2012 and 2021 – a 63% rise on rates seen in the 1990s.

'That's the equivalent of a fully loaded jumbo jet full of people going down once every seven hours throughout the year,' says Prof Ollie Jay.

'And the really important thing to keep in mind is that every heat related death is preventable.'"

Extreme heat lab: enduring the climate of the future

Graham Readfearn enters a simulation to investigate how heatwaves affect the human body

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

@ianiention surely obvious why I stretched the truth to use that term.

110 days since my imprisonment.

The calico cat (a.k.a. the sole source of beauty in this world—self named) risks approaching the gigantic monster and is… yet again… miraculously not eaten.

What is this witchcraft?

In an unexpected twist, #CasperCat is watching me from the closet and even held his ground when I turned around a few times and offered some slow blinks!

Since I really want to encourage such boldness, moving is now out of the question. This chair is now my bed. And possibly, entire living space.

Apparently, you can arrest presidents and kings.

@geckzilla 🧐

@m1rk0 Not that big. 2~3 bites.

@bobjonkman all survived

@m1rk0 really? 🧐 It’s not an obvious trigger (not spicy, acidic, particularly fatty, chocolatey or alcoholic).

A Japanese winter treat of a strawberry daifuku I found in our campus COOP. The strawberry is surrounded by mochi (sweet pounded rice) and there’s red bean paste stuffed in there too.

Toe bean time. #NorahNeko