Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your new year.- Michael Mann and Peter Hotez write about the combined threat posed by climate change, pandemics and an anti-science message which makes it far…
2025
On resistance
Charlie Angus continues to receive plenty of well-deserved attention for his work trying to focus on the dangers of the impending Trump administration - including his latest op-ed in the…
what i’m reading: 2024 wrap-up
My 2023 reading plan turned out to be perfect for me, so I renewed it for 2024, and will keep it for 2025, too.For more on why I'm now using…
Home on the Open World Range
A recent article in the Journal of Internet Research described a study that came to the conclusion that open-world games (OWGs) “may offer unique cognitive escapism opportunities, potentially leading to…
We Are All Complicit
There are still many who both turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and justify israel's atrocities as mere self-defence. If you believe that fiction, all I…
Trudeau Missing His Aline
When I was elected in 2015, I told my staff that if Prime Minister Trudeau rose, we would rise with him, but if he fell, we would need to have…
One-Liner Film Reviews for 2024
Most years on New Year's Day I try to remember everything I watched over the year for a round-up, but typically forget most of them. This year I kept track!!…
It’s 2025 and John Brown’s body lies a-moulderin’ in the grave, but Luigi marches on!
Happy New Year, I guess. This year may not turn out to be much better than the last one, but I do have a question for the first day of…
Epic!
An epic book forward, by Caimh McDonnell in his book Disaster. View on Threads View on Threads View on Threads View on Threads