𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

@CharlesCMann

Writer of 1491, 1493, Wizard & The Prophet, etc. New: Everyday Abundance, podcast w/ @vpostrel on the history of things you didn't know even *had* a history.

Seized Nipmuc land Joined August 2011

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann Feb 12, 2025

Here's my 1st piece of overt political propaganda--the first of a series about the systems that undergird our daily lives, which are always one generation of inattention away from catastrophe. Message: they're important! Paywall is lifted, please pass on. bit.ly/4gBYpuC

www.thenewatlantis.com We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann 5h

Amazing that M John Harrison just won the Booker. His stuff is bleak, elliptical, beautifully done, weird as all get out--a real writer's writer.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann 1d

An update, for those of you who've heard the episode on tooth-brushing in my series with @vpostrel : A Science article about a piezoelectric toothbrush that "generates reactive oxygen species to disrupt bacterial membranes."

Nice first sentence in the abstract, too. (via a pal)

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann 2d

Public-health experts meet to figure out how to respond when WHO revokes US status as measles-free. Looming overall, a pathetic question: will the current CDC under RFKJr actually help in the fight against this disease? (Link in reply)

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann 3d

He's quite correct. Unfortunately, there are all too many cases, esp. in California, of people with second homes in the mountains using the threat of suing under environmental laws to stop prescribed burns.

Shawn Regan Verified account @Shawn_Regan 3d

One more reason to love BAAJA: The managers amendment released today includes the Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act, which makes it easier for states to exclude smoke from prescribed burns from federal emissions calculations.

Under current rules, states can be penalized for smoke from these beneficial burns that help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

Pass the bill!

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