Edgar Häner
@gaussianwalk.bsky.social
I like hiking, books, raspberry pis, sociology, philosophy. Into maths, physics, programming. Formerly into fluid dynamics.
Absolutely beautiful data visualisation
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
January 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Absolutely beautiful data visualisation
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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Kemi, this is just a population density map
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Kemi, this is just a population density map
@josephpolitano.bsky.social The Economist is quoting you :-)
America’s missing manufacturing renaissance
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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America’s missing manufacturing renaissance
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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January 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM
@josephpolitano.bsky.social The Economist is quoting you :-)
America’s missing manufacturing renaissance
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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America’s missing manufacturing renaissance
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Moving forward to the past is so stupid.
January 11, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Moving forward to the past is so stupid.
Very little detail on the technical side but I was unaware that Uruguay switched to renewables.
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Very little detail on the technical side but I was unaware that Uruguay switched to renewables.
Some experience from Australia where the electricity storage problem seems to be much smaller than anticipated
youtu.be/xoi3-0EYW14?...
youtu.be/xoi3-0EYW14?...
January 9, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Some experience from Australia where the electricity storage problem seems to be much smaller than anticipated
youtu.be/xoi3-0EYW14?...
youtu.be/xoi3-0EYW14?...
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
January 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
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The upside of the first week of this year is that it gives analysts an opportunity to recalibrate their foresight skills, a useful reality check for improving future forecasts. Use it wisely! 🫣
January 8, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The upside of the first week of this year is that it gives analysts an opportunity to recalibrate their foresight skills, a useful reality check for improving future forecasts. Use it wisely! 🫣
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"We are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere" is the sort of line that gets edited out of an anime villain's evil monologue for being a bit much.
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 1:33 PM
"We are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere" is the sort of line that gets edited out of an anime villain's evil monologue for being a bit much.
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The Swiss are building a 27 storey timber skyscraper in Zurich, with 10-stacked vertical neighbourhoods, each housing 22 apartments
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 7:07 AM
The Swiss are building a 27 storey timber skyscraper in Zurich, with 10-stacked vertical neighbourhoods, each housing 22 apartments
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
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Tariffs as a % of GDP are at the highest level in more than 100 years amidst Trump's trade war—even though tariff rates are still lower than in the 1930s, they have a much higher impact because trade volumes are much larger than in the past
December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tariffs as a % of GDP are at the highest level in more than 100 years amidst Trump's trade war—even though tariff rates are still lower than in the 1930s, they have a much higher impact because trade volumes are much larger than in the past
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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FOR SALE: picture
PRICE: 1000 words
PRICE: 1000 words
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
FOR SALE: picture
PRICE: 1000 words
PRICE: 1000 words
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Can't think of a stronger endorsement for Erasmus.
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Can't think of a stronger endorsement for Erasmus.
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NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
Labour are finally taking the housing shortage seriously
Is the new National Planning Policy Framework Labour’s biggest pro-growth move?
www.samdumitriu.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
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Wie Paris in 10 Jahren seine Luft um 40% verbesserte und so vorzeitige Todesfälle durch Smog halbieren konnte, ist so eine krasse Erfolgsgeschichte. 2019 litten 400.000 Menschen an schlechter Luft. 2023 nur noch 5.000 und nächstes Jahr sollen es Null sein. Für eine 🇪🇺 Großstadt ist das beispiellos❤️
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Wie Paris in 10 Jahren seine Luft um 40% verbesserte und so vorzeitige Todesfälle durch Smog halbieren konnte, ist so eine krasse Erfolgsgeschichte. 2019 litten 400.000 Menschen an schlechter Luft. 2023 nur noch 5.000 und nächstes Jahr sollen es Null sein. Für eine 🇪🇺 Großstadt ist das beispiellos❤️
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It's the last narrative episode before our big wrap-up finale on Monday. Gorbachev, Yeltsin, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the "end of history", as the epoch that began in 1917 comes to a crashing halt. How did it all come about and was a reformed USSR ever really possible?
New episode out: The Fall of the USSR
Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social to see how the USSR unraveled. What did this do to the hopes of socialists around the world? And how do the events of 1985-91 still shape the world today?
Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social to see how the USSR unraveled. What did this do to the hopes of socialists around the world? And how do the events of 1985-91 still shape the world today?
Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It's the last narrative episode before our big wrap-up finale on Monday. Gorbachev, Yeltsin, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the "end of history", as the epoch that began in 1917 comes to a crashing halt. How did it all come about and was a reformed USSR ever really possible?
This article made me chuckle a lot even though it deals with a serious subject matter
The apple-pie-scented world of conservative women’s media
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
The apple-pie-scented world of conservative women’s media
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This article made me chuckle a lot even though it deals with a serious subject matter
The apple-pie-scented world of conservative women’s media
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
The apple-pie-scented world of conservative women’s media
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
I did not realise this at all.
(I wish the financial times wasn't so expensive, I love their journalism, from: www.ft.com/content/8252...)
(I wish the financial times wasn't so expensive, I love their journalism, from: www.ft.com/content/8252...)
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I did not realise this at all.
(I wish the financial times wasn't so expensive, I love their journalism, from: www.ft.com/content/8252...)
(I wish the financial times wasn't so expensive, I love their journalism, from: www.ft.com/content/8252...)
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Trying to do some synthesis on the perpetually ongoing EU-US growth discourse here:
1) Undeniable at this point that the US economy is growing faster than the EU— ~5% more on a per-capita basis since pre-COVID. But importantly, this is mostly a recent phenomenon; pre-COVID growth was basically even
1) Undeniable at this point that the US economy is growing faster than the EU— ~5% more on a per-capita basis since pre-COVID. But importantly, this is mostly a recent phenomenon; pre-COVID growth was basically even
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Trying to do some synthesis on the perpetually ongoing EU-US growth discourse here:
1) Undeniable at this point that the US economy is growing faster than the EU— ~5% more on a per-capita basis since pre-COVID. But importantly, this is mostly a recent phenomenon; pre-COVID growth was basically even
1) Undeniable at this point that the US economy is growing faster than the EU— ~5% more on a per-capita basis since pre-COVID. But importantly, this is mostly a recent phenomenon; pre-COVID growth was basically even
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A nice little piece about my institute, @perimeterinstitute.ca, in the Globe & Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/adv... (apparently it is "sponsor content" so it's more like a press release than reporting but it's a nice summary of what we do there and why)
Explorers of the infinite
Sponsor Content
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A nice little piece about my institute, @perimeterinstitute.ca, in the Globe & Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/adv... (apparently it is "sponsor content" so it's more like a press release than reporting but it's a nice summary of what we do there and why)
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Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors