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it's tuesday january 24th, 2023. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, the doomsday clock has ticked down even closer to midnight.

But how useful of a mechanism is it? Plus, some good news on climate change and a new Wordle spin-off for the Zillow Obsessed.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updated the Doomsday Clock.

We are now officially 90 seconds to midnight,

the closest we have ever been to the apocalypse in the history of the Doomsday Clock. But what

does that really mean? And should we even continue updating the Doomsday Clock? The Doomsday Clock was started in 1947,

as the illustrated cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine, designed and conceptualized by artist Marta Lengsdorf.

The Bulletin Organization itself was founded by a number of scientists, including Lengsdorf's

physicist husband, Alexander Lengsdorf, as well as Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer,

who respectively established and served as the first chair for the organization's board of sponsors.

The organization was founded following the atomic bombings on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to help grapple with the consequences of the nightmarish creation

of the atomic bomb. When the clock debuted in 1947, it was set at seven minutes to midnight,

indicating that the clock was ticking for us to get

nuclear weapons under control or else risk all-out apocalypse at midnight.

The amount of 7 minutes didn't directly correspond to any sort of probability or calculation.

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