Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Madeline Holcomb reports on new research showing that COVID-19 boosters are more effective when delivered to the same arm as previous vaccine doses. – Jessica Wildfire highlights how the war on remote work is the result of corporate landlords’ determination to sacrifice human health
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Failure of Biological Essentialism Arguments
There is an entire class of argument that we see in discourse that basically relies on the idea that “physical attribute X means that Y can never be true”. Often, these arguments are built around the idea that there are fundamental attributes that are so central a person that they
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Tame Impala – One More Year
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Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Choi reports on new research showing that updated COVID-19 vaccines help build immunity against the Eris strain. And Keenan Sorokan reports on both Eris’ spread into Saskatchewan, and the strong recommendation from the experts still interested in public health that people get
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Margaret Walton-Roberts and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault highlight how plans to poach workers from abroad are bound to fall short of meeting our need for care providers (while also raising ethical concerns). And Benjamin Shingler discusses how extreme heat is putting an increasing
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews two new books on the effects of an overheating planet. Damian Carrington reports on the science tracing unprecedented heat waves to climate change. And Jag Bhalla warns about the dangers of undue optimism about the state of our living environment – with the people with
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Rubbernecking cats.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ekaterina Pesheva writes about the continued uncertainty as to the driving mechanism behind long COVID even as large numbers of people suffer from it. Eric Berger notes that experts are cautioning Americans to keep a close eye on COVID exposure as new
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Arianna Johnson reports on new research showing how COVID-19 can continue to affect organ function long after the lungs have healed. Philip Finkelstein calls out the lack of any effective response to the widespread and continuing risk of long COVID. Erin Prater examines
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating off the Hill: My Seattle food roundup
I spent a lot of time on ferries during my Seattle trip as, in search of semi-reasonable hotel prices, the Swifties made me flee town for Bremerton. But all my extensive pre-trip research wasn’t entirely wasted as I did get to try some local delicacies and culinary specialties. It’s a
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Metric – Speed the Collapse
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Assorted content to end your week. – Rachel DuRose writes about the rise of the Eris COVID-19 variant, while Esther Choo notes that health care workers are bracing for another fall wave even as the ongoing risks have been disappeared from any public attention by authorities looking to squelch any
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Of Sovereign Citizens and Their Ilk
They operate under a number of different names – Sovereign Citizens, Freemen on the Land, Auditors, and so on. Largely, it’s all built on a series of conspiracy theories and outright nonsense which are used to suggest that the government and social structures we live within are invalid, and therefore
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jennifer La Grassa reports on the impending wave of the EG.5 COVID-19 variant, even as Phil Hahn warns that what little and belated data we have on COVID infections in the form of wastewater analysis may soon be cut off. And Ed Yong
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Hanwen Zhang highlights yet another rise in COVID cases – albeit paired with obviously-unwarranted minimizing of the risks involved. – Jessica Wildfire pushes back against the establishment demand that people somehow evolve to become cacti in order to survive a climate breakdown,
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating off the Hill: Is VIA finally upping its catering game?
As I’ve mentioned I am a frequent train traveler, usually between Ottawa and Toronto. With them extending the eligibility during COVID I was able to achieve the highest tier of VIA’s frequent traveler program this year. One of the perks? We get to choose our meal selection before everyone else
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I don’t find myself in the Parliamentary Dining Room very often — I’m more of a cafeteria guy — but back in May the boss and I were entertaining a visiting group of constituents and so I had the opportunity to enjoy a fancy lunch. Usually I go for one
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On The Fetishization of Fertility
From the comments in an earlier post: Honestly, how does a child who has never experienced orgasm give informed consent to the risk of never having one, let alone the guaranteed infertility resulting from the removal of genitals? Especially when faced with affirming parents and doctors. I’m really not sure
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: A Little Note On Evidence
This is particularly for the Gender Critical types that have been appearing in the comments a fair bit lately. You all seem to be a little confused about the concept of what constitutes evidence to support your positions. For example, somehow one article about a trans person acting
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