Thursday, 4 September 2025

11x11 (12. 697)

99% invisible: Roman Mars takes listener and staff questions for a fifteenth anniversary special 

fire and ice: immigration raids in the US hinder fighting forest fires   

expert build: modelling Kowloon Walled City in Minecraft—see previously  

petri dish: rather than going viral, the latest Tik-Tok accelerated coffee trend is very much bacterial and potentially sickening 

not with a bang but with bad branding: democracy loosing the attention wars to autocracy  

vynález zkázy: the fantastic posters of Karel Zeman’s films 

when the snow leaves town: photographic dispatches from a thawing Greenland 

health and human services: as distrust in US public health authorities grow—prompting some states to conduct their own research— RFK Jr testifies before the senate  

excited state: the thermodynamics of Mine Sweeper—see also  

ccc: after Trump failed to dismantle the nature conservancy volunteer agency fully, legislation is introduced to rebrand AmeriCorps into America First Corps, shifting focus away from disaster response and stewardship of public lands 

 retuna: a second-hand only Swedish shopping experience