Share of Fuels in the Global Energy Mix Across Modern History
theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need-an-energy-miracle/407881
In a recent article in The Atlantic, ‘We Need an Energy Miracle’, Bill Gates (interviewed by James Bennet) talks about his efforts “moving the world beyond fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.”
This chart, showing the mixture of fuels in global energy consumption, is a really clear depiction of the changing sources of energy in modern history.
Laurie Anderson’s new film “Heart of a Dog” is a poignant and beautiful meditation on memory, death, and loss. As always with her work, it is complex, evocative, and wraps many themes and observations on our society up with her personal life, weaving it all together in an immersive sensory experience.
Ostensibly dealing with the death of her dog, Lolabelle, the film’s unmentioned but shadowy overhanging presence is her late husband, Lou Reed.
Manohla Dargis’ review in the NY Times is, as usual, wonderfully eloquent: nyti.ms/1QPPxzV.
The cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine has an illustration by Christoph Neimann just made for the intersection of coffee and technology: newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-christoph-niemanns-coffee-break.
“Coffee Break,” Christoph Niemann.
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