In 1570, Henry Billingsley made history by publishing the first English translation of Euclid’s Elements. He embedded pop-up three-dimensional models into the pages. Centuries ago one man used paper engineering to bring math to life. h/t Ali Kaya beyondeuclid.substack.com

As late as 2020, it was a two-horse race with the US still in play. Now, China cranks out more than twice the wind turbines of the US and Europe combined. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social

#Population trends decouple from #emissions trends. It’s about policy and possibility. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social

While Trump thought he could bring back ship building to America, his repulsion repels potential customers. “Japanese companies plowed a record $17 billion Down Under last year, and 2025 figures nearly match that.” Via @adamtooze.bsky.social

"...the real story here might be the EU, where investment jumped 63% from the second half of 2024 to ~$76 billion, double the paltry $37 billion in the US. In fact, the EU and the US swapped places as the world’s second-biggest destination for green capital after China." via @adamtooze.bsky.social

Wyoming, Connecticut, California, and Texas are the US states with the highest inequality. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social via @itif.org 👉 itif.org/publications...

Most African migration is within the continent, with less than 1% moving outside. Improved migration systems, bilateral labor agreements, and new skill development could lead to widespread prosperity. openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

Complexity will continue, with or without us. The wager is no longer whether to master the wave. It is whether we can learn to inhabit it without denying the unequal costs it exacts. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

Nazaré’s canyon turns swells into monsters. Some ride them, others drown. So too with the Anthropocene: complexity persists, but justice demands asking whose lives are lifted, and whose are pulled under.@[email protected] @DialoguesHG @geopolitics @[email protected] interplace.io/p/masters-of...

Speculative realism reminds us the world is indifferent. Metamodernism asks us to oscillate—between cosmic order and human mess, between despair and tragic optimism. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

The Holocene’s “safe operating space” is behind us. Talk of looming risks obscures reality: destabilization is already here, and its costs are unevenly borne. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

Physics sketches elegant arcs across cosmic time. Geography drags us back to ground: uneven lives, fractured histories, and precarity. The wager is not abstract—it is lived. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

We live in the fleeting middle: a cosmos born simple, growing complex, destined to end simple again. The question is not whether complexity continues, but whether we can dwell meaningfully within it. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

My Substack, interplace.io, has been indexed by the AI lords (Perplexity in this case). Circularity in the singularity. (I guess I was too lazy to look it up in my own work!) 🤭

Hurricane Erin moves northward near the East Coast in this satellite imagery over the last couple of days. As it pulls away to the east, Erin is undergoing extratropical transition.

The sun rises on massive and strengthening Hurricane Erin. The storm is expected to stay offshore, but some of its effects will be felt all along the East Coast.

A very swirly eye at the center of Hurricane Erin.

Most electricity in the Netherlands now comes from renewables. This is today's @ourworldindata.org Data Insight from my colleague @simonvanteutem.bsky.social. All our Data Insights are here: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Ecology isn’t static; it’s a restless, adaptive flow. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...

Canada is experiencing their second worst wildfire season on record, and smoke from these fires can be carried many thousands of miles. On August 7, 2025, New England and Eastern Canada were enveloped in smoke that had traveled from Central Canada, impacting the air quality for millions. (1/5)

Migration is the rule, not the exception—in nature and in history. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...

Life moves because it can, not because it asks permission. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...

From camels to fireweed, belonging is rarely absolute in nature. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...

The new American exceptionalism...or is it exemptionalism?

“Native” and “invasive” often say more about us than about the species. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...

Armstrong's TV show "The World Tomorrow" was viewed by approximately 20 million people. Again, Armstrong preached that white Christian people were God's chosen people and that all others were born inferior. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wor...

Borders are for politics, not plants. Nature’s migrations ignore our maps. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...

Do ant colonies work like liquid brains? Check this great paper in @pnas.org led by @ceabcsic.bsky.social Pol Fernandez and F.Bartumeus that shows how to explain collective foraging by modelling ants as neural agents @jordipinero.bsky.social @frazambelli.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This spending spree is mostly from the top 10% income earners in the US...who buoy the economy. The rest are most like with the rest of the world's blue bunch. From www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/a...

“If you’re not an oligarch, that’s your fault. If you are in trouble, that’s on you. The money is there, for the taking, Glengarry Glen Ross-style. Are you man enough to take it? Longing for freedom is for losers.”

Fossil gas is collapsing in California’s grid: down 25% vs ‘24, 43% vs ‘23. Solar up 18%, batteries up 63% vs ‘24 (213% vs ‘23). Wind+Water+Solar (WWS) now supply 57.6% of all demand YTD. 165 of 210 days hit 100% WWS; 11 in a row. Clean energy is winning big & rapidly. #WWS #Solar #LFP #BatteryBoom

Severe flooding caused by torrential rainfall has killed at least 38 people and forced over 80,000 residents to evacuate in #Beijing and northern #China. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/... #flooding #extremeweather #climatechange #naturaldisaster

The Chevy Aveo gets 48 MPG and costs $17,000? “this ‘Heartbeat of America’? It’s actually made in China.” And sold in Mexico. Trump thought he was “shielding American automakers from Chinese imports with tariffs”…but they upped their game in China to be sold elsewhere. via @adamtooze.bsky.social

Severe thunderstorms erupt across the northern Plains, delivering widespread damaging winds.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested around a thousand toddlers since Sep 2023. According to the National Juvenile Justice Network, only 26 US states have a minimum age of prosecution...Florida’s minimum age of prosecution is only seven. via @adamtooze.bsky.social[email protected]

US metro rail operators are steadily bringing back riders, except in Atlanta; ridership on MARTA rail in recent months is about 40% of what it was in 2005. NYC's Subway now has higher ridership than in 2005—though it has many fewer riders than it had in 2019—with other operators further behind.

This is possibly the most quintessentially American news story ever written. “Mr. Regalado and his wife said their cryptocurrency platform ‘blends biblical kingdom principles of wealth creation with cutting-edge blockchain technology.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

I know it’s a troll. I also know that this is an official government account sharing art that was designed to propagate Indigenous dispossession, cultural destruction, and conquest, and that whoever shared this surely knew it. It is right there in the painting.

Hypnotic von Kármán vortices cascade off of Guadalupe Island, swirling over the eastern Pacific Ocean.

ICYMI: I introduced legislation to block ICE from detaining and deporting U.S. citizens. Trump’s secret police are kidnapping people off the street — even citizens and people with legal status. We need to rein them in. migrantinsider.com/p/first-look...

Wonderful explainer here, on the complexity of dynamics in how a changing climate expresses as weather. “Yet our brains favor recent events, confirm existing beliefs, and crave simple answers.”

Body cams were meant to reform policing. Now Axon’s turning that reform into revenue — selling tasers, cams, and sticky subscriptions to software. Accountability meets monetization. Reform or reinforcement? h/t @adamtooze.bsky.social via @financialtimes.com

Behind the Texas flood was vapor, velocity, and vertical motion. The water cycle didn’t break. It evolved. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/when-the-s...

Floods don’t follow grids. Droughts don’t wait for averages. If we plan with old rules, we get new disasters. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/when-the-s...

Some say the wet get wetter. Others say the world is drying out. Texas shows it’s not either-or — it’s both, and then some. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/when-the-s...

The Texas floods weren’t outliers. They were symptoms of a system that’s shifting. Where heat, concrete, and old assumptions collide. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/when-the-s...

New York had a one hour deluge last night. Second worst since Hurricane Ida in 2021. This footage of the 28th St station shows how nature always wins. As @climateofgavin.bsky.social pointed out, the station coexists with what was once a stream. How can infrastructure evolve to 'go with the flow'?

The sky swells. The land breaks. The problem isn’t just the climate. It’s how we still plan for a world that no longer exists. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/when-the-s...

Half of the people living in Africa haven't yet had a 20th birthday. In Europe, more than half of the population has already turned 40.

UK leisure flights are booming. Many new routes dodge carbon pricing schemes incentivizing emissions. Immigrant labor from outside the EU also plays a role. Time to plug the loopholes. From @neweconomics.bsky.social via @adamtooze.bsky.social