Ukraine's Russia-supported rebels are unhappy now that Putin is dialing down that war.

Even 2C of global heating will do great harm. Drastic action is needed to avoid climate mayhem, and it doesn't look like leaders are prepared to do it.

It isn't certain that 2C of heating is possible. It might be that once warming goes beyond 1.5C (or 1.75, or 1.25, or some such amount), a positive feedback will kick in and push the heating up to 2.5C (or 3C, or 4C, or 5C, or some such amount). We are playing with fire, and the only certainty is that we must stop.

The suppository of all carbon emissions, Tony Abbott, succeeded in cutting renewable energy investment in Australia by almost 1/3.

Mandatory, organized fun as part of a job is a form of manipulation.

Japanese companies pushed this to extreme lengths. Someone I know, who had no tolerance for alcohol and had to avoid it, had no choice but to work for a government lab, because all companies would require him to get drunk as part of "leisure" activities.

In Burma, Buddhist extremists attack women's rights, sex education, and any discussion about sex.

The Buddha would advise those monks to question their attachment to those prejudices.

I expect there is a word in Burmese for "vagina", but it was omitted from the dictionary because it is considered too rude.