Hi there!
If youāre anyone but my mom, my partner or my two friends, you miiiight be wondering where Iāve been the past two monthsā Everywhere, all over the place but your inbox, and Iām sorry!
As I missed eight editions here, I traveled a bit to see old friends and learned a bunch of new things: Grad school in Data Journalism goes from intro to html to complicated JavaScript libraries in less than two hours. So. For my inability to keep up for a hot minute, I apologize.
I got myself a little green friend. Say hi to Bulbul!
I also worked a bunch of my website and covered stories about the city payroll database, about street flooding and more!
Aaaand, since Iāve been awol so long, hereās a couple more than usual number of links of stuff I found intriguing:
Traditional yak herding declines as climate change warms up the Himalayas
Farmers who still continue to raise yaks are running out of butter, because of the reduced female yak population.Americans rush to buy guns after a mass shooting. Hereās why.
About 1 million background checks for purchases of handguns, rifles or both have occurred on average each month since 2009, the data shows. But those figures spiked after major news events.An industry built on a fallacy of carbon neutrality
The ārenewableā industry creates major emissions, destroys forests, and causes health and safety issues in low-resource communities.As private weather forecasting takes off, who is left behind?
That level of specificity might seem excessive, but private weather companies argue their services are worth it, given the growing uncertainty businesses face in relation to extreme weather.Are we ever authentically ourselves on the internet?
āIt has the vintage feel of early Instagram,ā said Sasha Khatami, 21, who works in digital marketing. āI think itās an interesting shift for people like me, who are used to posting curated content for so long, now toward a reminder to post in the moment.āThink climate action is expensive? Inaction could cost $178 trillion.
But zeroing out emissions could create a green Industrial Revolution, a new report says.
For now, thatās all. I promise to be back next week and to stick around this time. Have a cheery rest of the week!šš»