Former President George W. Bush revealed his private artwork on his own terms today. Appearing on the Today Show this morning, Bush spoke to his daughter Jenna in an interview about his collection called “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy,” which will be shown starting April 5 at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Bush talked about how he began making art as a way to keep busy after his presidency, and he explains the inspiration behind these paintings of world leaders and individuals from his life.

While the collection was inspired by friendship, Bush explains that he tried to immortalize each person in a piece of art that reflects their character as he knew it. The former president talks about his relationship with Vladimir Putin, and how the Russian leader “dissed” Bush’s Scottish terrier Barney, exerting his power by comparing Barney to his own, much larger hound. “Anyone who thinks my dog is bigger than your dog is an interesting character,” Bush said. “That painting kind of reflects that.”

While Bush is no Rembrandt, he says he wants to unlock his inner artist while reflecting the people in his life through painting. When the former president’s wife Laura Bush was asked how a painting of her came out, she was supportive, yet direct: “It still needs some work.”

Until now, treatments for drug overdoses have been entrusted to health professionals and police officers, but today the FDA approved the first drug-delivery device made for civilians to administer an overdose antidote to victims. The device, called Evzio, is a credit-card sized dispenser that contains a needle, which is used to administer the antidote naloxone to someone who has suffered a drug overdose.

The FDA describes the device working similarly to automated defibrillators: when turned on, Evzio gives the user verbal instructions on how to inject naloxone in a victim. It even comes with a trainer device that lacks a needle and medicine that people can practice with so they get familiar with the process before they ever use it. However, the FDA does note that while naloxone does help counteract the effects of an overdose from opioids like heroin, it is not a substitute for medical care.

Will people use it wisely?

There’s no word on how much Evzio will cost when it becomes available to the public, and that’s partly because the consumer price for naloxone has yet to be decided. The AP reports that the device’s manufacturer kaléo is currently working with health insurance providers to get broader coverage for naloxone. Kaléo also claims that naloxone could act as a treatment for other types of drug overdoses, and unexpected drug interactions.

Lawmakers have their reservations about naloxone being readily accessible to everyone. Maine Governor Paul LePage vetoed a bill last year in his state that would have let healthcare professionals prescribe naloxone to families and caregivers of drug addicts so they could dispense it during emergencies. He claimed it would provide “a false sense of security that abusers are somehow safe if they have a prescription nearby.”

America’s growing drug problem can’t be ignored much longer. The CDC reports that the number of people who die from drug overdoses has steadily increased over the past 11 years, rising from 16,849 deaths in 1999 to 38,329 in 2010. FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg wrote in a statement that rather than Evzio being a solution to a public health crisis, it should be seen as a tool to help people who could eventually receive more treatment for addiction. “While the larger goal is to reduce the need for products like these by preventing opioid addiction and abuse,” Hamburg said, “they are extremely important innovations that will help to save lives.”

Smog is hitting the UK hard: cities across the country are currently covered in a blanket of dirty air thanks to what meteorologists are calling a “perfect storm” for air pollution. The UK’s environmental department recently reported that the air couldn’t be much dirtier in London and southeast England, essentially because dirt from the country as well as dirt from the Sahara Desert isn’t being blown away. Local emissions mixed with dust particles from the Sahara are staying in England’s air because light winds are not powerful enough to disperse them.

David Cameron even put his morning jog on hold

That means that not only did many UK citizens wake up to thin coatings of reddish dust on their windows and cars, but those who suffer from respiratory issues have to be on high alert. According to a poll conducted by Asthma UK, 84 percent of people with asthma have had flareups due to air pollution. BBC News reports that health warnings have been issued for people who suffer from respiratory issues, encouraging those individuals to stay indoors.

Some forecasters say that the smog will last through the weekend, but there’s no word on when pollution rates will return to normal in the most affected areas in the southern part of the country. England isn’t the only European country facing pollution problems either: smog in Paris has gotten so bad recently that the city made public transportation free for citizens, in hopes they would use trains and buses instead of using their own automobiles. While England’s air pollution cannot be completely attributed to the Sahara, dust traveling from the Desert to England isn’t as strange as it might sound — according to the UN’s Environmental Program, strong winds can carry particles from the Sahara for thousands of miles across the North Atlantic and even into North and Central America.

Audi will celebrate the launch of its new A3 tomorrow with a live collaboration between M.I.A. and Janelle Monáe — sort of. Each artist will play a separate set, Monáe from Los Angeles and M.I.A. from New York, but they will perform two brand-new songs together at the end of the night thanks to the magic of hologram technology. Pitchfork reports that “integrated video mapping” is making this happen: the set uses 3D projection mapping to “add layered depth of field perception with animated graphic content.” It sounds impressive, but we’ll have to see the results before we can say how effective it is. While putting on a bicoastal performance may not be as enticing to some as the holographic resurrection of 2Pac at Coachella in 2012, or a piano battle between a composer and his own hologram, it does present a peculiar trend that could change the meaning of “live” in live music.

How Americans think about weed is changing. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 75 percent of Americans believe selling and using marijuana will eventually be legalized. Of the people surveyed, both the majority of people for and against legalized weed agree that it is coming.

The decriminalization effort has been controversial since the beginning of the year when Colorado sold the first legal marijuana in the state to a war veteran with PTSD. Currently 17 states have laws decriminalizing the sale and use of marijuana, or laws that lessen restrictions for institutions like hospitals. Washington, DC was the most recent place to become significantly more lenient with marijuana punishments, lowering the penalty for possession to a $25 fine, down from a $1,000 fine or a six-month prison sentence.

Whether they agree or not, most Americans think legalization is going to happen

The number of people surveyed was small, though — only 1,821 adults — but it does show a dramatic shift in Americans’ thinking of marijuana. Of the 75 percent that believe weed will inevitably be legal, 69 percent of Republicans and 79 percent of Democrats believe that those who are found possessing small amounts of marijuana shouldn’t be jailed. The survey also found that people see weed as less of a threat to personal health and society at large than other substances, such as alcohol. The marijuana debate seems to be contributing to Americans’ beliefs about other drug laws, with 67 percent of Americans favoring treatment for drug users rather than just prosecution.

Hulu announced today that it reached an agreement to become the exclusive streaming home for a host of popular comedies, including Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Mindy Project. While the shows were previously available on the service, the deal with NBCUniversal will keep them out of the hands of competitors like Netflix.

The deal will also bring reality shows like Top Chef and Keeping Up With the Kardashians to Hulu. Past seasons of the Amy Poehler comedy Parks and Recreation are also included, though they won’t be exclusive to the service. The battle for exclusive rights to individual shows has been heating up lately, with Amazon snagging 24 from Netflix earlier this week. Despite being one of Hulu’s parent companies (alongside Disney and Fox), NBCUniversal claims Hulu was given no preferential treatment in the deal.

Correction: Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Mindy Project were previously available on Hulu through a non-exclusive deal. A previous version of this story stated they were coming to Hulu for the first time.