Humor

• Dilbert
• Doonesbury
• Calvin & Hobbes
• Nonsequitur
• Some political cartoons
• The Daily Show
• The Borowitz Report
• The festival of Bad Ad Hoc hypotheses
  • examples: why do mammals sleep and the abdominal torus
• The Onion
• xkcd

Florida (humor? gravitas? you decide)

• 5 “theories” about Florida
• Florida Man and Florida Woman
• Floriduh

Gravitas

• A word for our time, resurrected [brilliantly] here
• What a difference 2% makes
• 33K people shot annually in US
• Who’s Your Politician?
• Who’s Funding Your Politician?
• Politifact Truth-O-Meter
• Congressional Budget Office
• Governmental Accountability Office

• Great Barrier is also “bleaching”
• Climate change to cost Trump (and others on coasts)
• Human consequences of climate change
• A timeline of Earth’s temperature
• Oh boy, let’s go fishing there
• Hippos invade Colombia
• Science isn’t broken (but it is hard)
• We rival glaciation & asteroids
• Our “footprint”
• How hot was your city in 2015?
• Marine fisheries
• NYT video: green sea turtles
• Foaming lakes in Bangalore
• Personal CO₂ calculator
• Steady State Economy
• IPCC’s 5-year summary