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Anyway, for anyone taking a broad view of the Anthropocene and its history I would say it was essential reading. And for those stuck in

If you want a compacted version of Coen's fascinating argument about scale, it is here: muse.jhu.edu/article/620983 Coen, Deborah R. "Big is a Thing of the

Turns out Habsburg climatologists had rather intimate ways of thinking about climate! Sacher Masoch and all … https://t.co/UsS2LeOBnT

Yesterday I sat down & read Deborah Coen Climate in Motion Science, Empire & the Problem of Scale in a single, somewhat delirious sitting. I

Striking that the press/author decided to bury fact that "Empire" in question is Habsburg Empire in Central Europe. Probably not sexy (though on that score

Olam, world’s largest cocoa trader, can now trace 100% of beans it sources direct from mainly poor peasant farmers = 12% of global supply. Enables

RT @jossgarman: "If comprehensive global assemblies are unmanageable and superpower deals are too narrow, what is needed is a more manageab…

US tax authorities are collecting less than half the amount of revenue from audits than they did in 2010. @propublica via @SoberLook https://t.co/X5r8YtTy6P

60% of Global Fund Managers expect the US election outcome to be contested. BofA research via @SoberLook https://t.co/DdisRzXCrL

In 2011 those earning $1m pa were six times more likely to be audited by US tax authorities than the working poor with income <$20k.

China is benefiting from something close to a V-shaped recovery. US/EU are looking at a swoosh scenario: recovery incomplete and trend broken to downside. @jpmorgan

Unemployment in Iceland is currently worse than after the entire banking system collapsed in 2008. Tourism industry has stopped dead. @SoberLook https://t.co/514xcCSDkY

Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in Formula 1. @TheEconomist statistical model finds that neither Lewis Hamilton nor Michael Schumacher is Formula

US tax authorities are collecting less than half the amount of revenue from audits than they did in 2010. @propublica via @SoberLook https://t.co/6amExWcf3O

In 2011 those earning $1m pa were six times more likely to be audited by US tax authorities than the working poor with income <$20k.

60% of Global Fund Managers expect the US election outcome to be contested. BofA research via @SoberLook https://t.co/rkbBF7PQw2

China is benefiting from something close to a V-shaped recovery. US/EU are looking at a swoosh scenario: recovery incomplete and trend broken to downside. @jpmorgan

Unemployment in Iceland is currently worse than after the entire banking system collapsed in 2008. Tourism industry has stopped dead. @SoberLook https://t.co/lQ4MugNFMx

Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in Formula 1. @TheEconomist statistical model finds that neither Lewis Hamilton nor Michael Schumacher is Formula

New word: drosometer – an instrument for measuring the quantity of dew in a given area! https://t.co/KtRHYQNdUx

RT @cornelban73: There is much celebration over the so-called burial of austerity by the IMF. This is an exaggeration. https://t.co/nnUJsLG…

Gotta say I am loving the new Bad Plus line-up of Reid Anderson and Dave King with Orrin Evans. Delighted to discover two new albums

The Weather Forecasting Factory with 64k human computers as proposed by Lewis Fry Richardson in 1922 and imagined by Stephen Conlin. A director Standing on

Felix Exner’s rotating-dishpan model of general circulation, photographed from above, 1923. Tongues of cold water radiate out from ice at the center and form vortices

First map of global temperatures based on Humboldt’s concept of isotherms, ca. 1823. Based on data from 58 weather stations. By 1864 there were 2000

“sentenced to Chernivtsi, pardoned to Graz, promoted to Vienna.” Theodor Mommsen’s memorable quip about a successful academic career in the Habsburg Empire: Coen, Deborah R..

"Karl Kraus agreed that the Habsburg capital Vienna was a laboratory, namely, an “experimental station for the end of the world.”” i.e. »Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs«

@FabiusMayland @DanielaGabor Province, city, local governments. Power utilities. Coal mines and miners. Folks who have lent them money.

RT @olivergraf: «There are several hundred large and profitable corporations whose entire business model will be upended by rapid and deep…

RT @climate: The rainforests are vanishing at a rate of 1.5 acres per second. Here’s what it will take to stop the destruction before they’…

F. the various strategic option for giant asset managers, in shaping green financial regime, creating new markets, managing risks in political terms, all of which

G. on issue of analytical continuity with Crashed: I'm a pluralist. Macrofinance matters. In a 2008-style implosion it may dominate. But I dont see why

A. Its a great idea and one @DanielaGabor is already pursuing herself. B. I'm by no means committed to "methodological nationalism". Xi's speaks on behalf

C. In the piece I suggest that G40 format may be needed but then go on to say "imagining a forum is one thing, the

D. China has BRI. But EU lacks any equivalent. Germany's "Marshall Plan for Africa" was empty. EU could use pricing power -> that makes private

E. As I say: "like the communist regime in Beijing, “big money” in the West is beginning to take a strategic view … for Western