Introducing you to the players of the FIDE Candidates 2026! 🏝 🇩🇪 Matthias Bluebaum - 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss 2nd Matthias Bluebaum (28) arrives at the Candidates after the strongest classical stretch of his career. He secured qualification by finishing second at the 2025 FIDE

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt." #climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

Eric Ravilious was a virtuoso at capturing everyday scenes and little details from English provincial life. This view (1935) is from the home he shared with Tirzah Garwood at Bank House, Castle Hedingham, Essex.

The UK has had rain every day in 2026 (and it’s not over yet)

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good piece by Chris Lintott.

"No more nuclear power stations – not just because there is no need for them, because the toxic waste produced during their lifetime and afterwards continues its serious damage for thousands of years. There is no assured storage system that has any guarantee" www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

On Svetozar Glicorić's birthday, here he is collecting a sweet trophy from Isaac Kashdan (for winning the 1974 Los Angeles International Tournament).

Judd Trump extends the sequence! The last 15 ranking events on the World Snooker Tour have all been won by different players. Will the streak continue at this week's World Grand Prix in Hong Kong?! 📷: World Snooker Tour

Fun fact. This trick shot by Mary Tyler Moore in a 1962 episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was actually made in one take. It was intended for an expert pool player to film the trick, but to everyone's surprise, she actually got it.

Clark Gable, born February 1, 1901, hangs out with Euwe, Reshevsky and Steiner on the set of Any Number Can Play (1949). From Chess Review, March 1949.

Final round. en.chessbase.com/post/tata-st...

White to move. Puzzle "Slow And Steady" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles

#China wind and solar surpass coal, reaching 1,840GW in 2025. Wind and solar energy now account for 47% of China total power mix, exceeding thermal power by 300GW. global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202601/28/...

'Mountains, Connemara,' shows Paul Henry at the height of his powers in the early-mid 1930s, a time when his domestic circumstances, which always reflected directly on his work, had become settled after the breakdown of his marriage; as his mood brightened, so did his work.

Bluebaum crossed 2700 & moved into 2nd place in the Masters on the final rest day in Wijk aan Zee, while Gukesh & Keymer both hit back again. Ivanchuk beat the leader in the Challengers!

https//en.chessbas... Exciting days games. The Turkish teenager missed a possible win against the World Champion.

Storm Chandra has been named and will bring heavy rain to the UK this evening and tomorrow. But how is climate change influencing extreme events like this in the UK? www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/cli...

I am working through these four books on Paul Keres but it may take sometime.............

White to move. Puzzle "Please Take My Rooks!" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles

Giri followed beating Gukesh by taking down Abdusattorov in Round 8 of Tata Steel Chess, while Gukesh bounced back to beat Fedoseev!

Painted in 1913, Paul Nash gave this picture the ultimate simplicity of a title, 'A Drawing.' The elm trees marked the boundary of his family's home at Wood Lane House, Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire. Trees always held a spiritual quality for him.

Icy snow at Crater Lake National Park #Cold #Photography #CraterLake #Oregon #Snow #Trees 📷

428.45 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 23-Jan-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

We have cancelled our fossil walk for today and #Charmouth seafront has received some damages overnight due to the storms. The walk way to West beach has been broken up, life buoys ripped away and the seafront car park is half closed. We are not advising being out on the beaches today!