Floral Public #art #mural by Yulia AvgustinovichTo see different angles & close-ups of this awesome #StreetArt in Ridgway, CO. – go here: yulia-art.com/public-art-m…It has hidden animals within the flowers. #murals
20 Sept 2026
What if the biggest challenge facing solar power isn’t making the panels cheaper, but finding somewhere to put them? From solar panels between railway tracks in Switzerland to photovoltaic motorway noise barriers in South Korea, engineers are finding increasingly ingenious ways to generate clean electricity from infrastructure we’ve already built — without competing for valuable agricultural land.
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The “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle is one of the most recognizable melodies on Earth. But the story behind it involves a global competition, thousands of mixes, a Trojan Horse pop song, and a surprising amount of celebrity beef. In this updated version of one of our favorite episodes, we trace how a five-note jingle became a worldwide phenomenon, and the controversy over who actually wrote it. Featuring Tom Batoy and Franco Tortora of Mona Davis Music.
MUSIC FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE
Looking Behind the Bar by Stationary Sign
Tempest Rondo by Dian Shuai
Norwich by Steven Gutheinz
Yeah Yeah Yeah (Instrumental) by Goldenface
Noir by Red Licorice
A Classical Noir by Mary Riddle
Just the Right Amount by Arthur Benson
Odd Behavior by Arthur Benson
Feeling Alright (Instrumental) by Gavin Luke
Jokers by Mary Riddle
Soft and Way Up by Plum King
Mr. Mole and Son by Love and Weasel
For We Shall Know Speed by Truck Stop
Funky Nights by OTE
Paula Cole is a singer, songwriter and producer from Massachusetts. She put out her first solo album, Harbinger, in 1994. Her second album, This Fire,came out in 1996 and was a real breakthrough; she was nominated for seven Grammys, and she won the Grammy for Best New Artist. In fact, that year she was the first woman in Grammy history to be nominated for Producer of the Year without a male collaborator. For this episode, Paula told me about how she made one of the big hits from that album: “I Don’t Want to Wait.” It spent 56 weeks on the Billboard charts. And then, it was heard by millions more, when it was used as the theme song for the hit TV show Dawson’s Creek.
These days, Paula has been reclaiming her old music in various ways. A couple of years ago, she re-recorded some of her songs, including “I Don’t Want to Wait.” And that’s the version of the song that you’ll hear throughout this episode, and at the end, in its entirety. And on September 10, 2026, Paula is putting out an archival collection of her demos. It’s called Sonic Memoir: Demos 1989-1998.It includes the original demo of “I Don’t Want to Wait,” which you’ll also hear in the episode, as Paula tells the story of how she wrote and produced the song.
11 Jul 2019
Dive into the mind-bending works of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, whose work pioneered the literary style magical realism.
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What would it be like to have a limitless memory? Can the meaning of life be found in an infinite library? Is time a labyrinth or a single moment? Jorge Luis Borges explored these questions of infinity in his many works. His body of essays, poems and stories pioneered the literary style known as magical realism— and each was just a few pages long. Ilan Stavans dives into the world of Borges.
Lesson by Ilan Stavans, directed by Aim Creative Studios.
18 Sept 2026 #carbon #cartogram #emissions
In 1750 every tonne of fossil carbon dioxide anyone recorded came from one island. Today China alone emits more than the next four countries combined.
Every country on this map is resized so that its area matches the carbon dioxide it emits each year, and the whole thing runs from 1750 to 2024. It starts at 9.3 million tonnes and ends at 37.4 billion. In between: Britain is still 96% of the recorded total in 1800 and below half by 1855; the United States passes Britain in 1888 and holds the top of the map for 116 years; the American share hits 55% in 1945, the highest it ever gets; China sits third on 8% in 1980 and passes the United States in 2006. The map gets redrawn three times, and each time it is the same mechanism — somewhere industrialising at speed on fuel it had underneath it.
Episode two of MAPPED. Every figure on screen is sourced.
⏱ CHAPTERS
0:00 275 Years of Carbon, Mapped
0:08 One Island, Three Quarters of the Map
0:34 China Does Not Appear Until 1907
1:15 Britain Falls Below Two Thirds
1:35 America Rises on a Continent of Coal
2:02 1888: The United States Passes Britain
2:22 Three Countries, 70% of the Map
2:57 The Wall Street Crash Takes a Quarter
3:21 1950: America is 44% of the World
4:09 China Enters the Map at 8%
4:32 Europe Peaks in 1990, Then Falls
5:06 2006: China Passes the United States
6:14 37 Billion Tonnes, and Asia is 63%
6:25 China Alone Beats the Next Four Combined
6:46 Who Actually Put It There
7:09 Per Person, the Ranking Changes Again
📊 KEY DATA
• 9.3 million tonnes — the whole recorded world in 1750, all of it British, about two hours of today’s emissions
• 96% — Britain’s share of the recorded total in 1800, fifty years into the industrial revolution
• 1907, 1868, 1858 — the years China, Japan and India first appear in this record; before that they are not zero, they are uncounted
• 62% → below 50% — Britain between 1850 and 1855, while its own emissions were still rising
• 1888 — the United States passes Britain, and from 1890 holds the top of the map for 116 years
• 34% / 21% / 17% — the US, Britain and Germany in 1900, about 70% of the map between them
• 55% — the American share in 1945, the highest the United States ever reaches
• 10 billion tonnes in 1964, 20 billion in 1986 — the second ten billion took 22 years, the first took two centuries
• 8% → 33% — China between 1980 and today, an eightfold rise, most of it inside twenty years
• 12.29 Gt — China in 2024, more than the United States, India, Russia and Japan combined
• 24% / 16% — the United States and China as shares of ALL fossil CO2 ever emitted, 1750 to 2024
• 59% vs 29% — Europe and North America’s share of the cumulative total, against the annual one
• 14 / 9 / 2 tonnes — emissions per person in the United States, China and India
🔍 SOURCES
• Global Carbon Budget via Our World in Data, territorial fossil CO2, 1750–2024 — https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
• Global Carbon Project, Global Carbon Budget 2024 — https://globalcarbonbudget.org/
• Also cited: UN World Population Prospects 2024, for the per-person and share-of-population figures
Pre-1900 figures are reconstructions from records of coal mined and traded, not measurements of the air, and coverage before 1830 is thin — countries drawn in grey are ones nobody was counting yet, not ones emitting nothing. Borders are modern throughout.
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