A nice news thing, for a change 

https://apnews.com/article/louvre-fedora-man-ap-photo-c0d59847ef5f836a0c5ac49de8bff441

Oh to have been that cool at 15.

This is an interesting slant ... embedded energy and "energy slaves".

To make 1 Big Mac ... It would take 1 human a total of 3 x 8-hour days of sustained labor to generate the necessary 10 MJ of energy.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-100-energy-slaves

Relevant comic (linked in the comments) - 

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/

Somewhat related to the above.

Many decades ago I read an article in Scientific American about the embedded power in a nuclear power station (they didn't call it 'embedded power', nut that is what it was). They made the point that it was more than the power station would ever produce.

This seemed a dubious claim but it was a reasonably reputable publication and the workings out seemed correct, even if I could not check the starting figures.

They rather lost all credibility, however, when they went on to say that, in fact, the same applied to all other power stations, thus claiming that power stations were effectively impossible.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-11/heavy-metal-is-healing-teens-on-the-blackfeet-nation/

In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

This is such a good read.