Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Juliana Kim reports on the growing wave of public health advice recommending masking in order to limit the harm from a “tripledemic”…
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Musk’s Twitter, Free Speech … and Pronouns
It's been wild ride over on Twitter since Elon Musk took over. For a supposed "free speech absolutist", Musk is proving to be anything but. He has spent the last…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lisa O’Mary discusses the sharply increased risk of severe outcomes from a second (or later) COVID -19 infection. Lauren O’Mahoney et al. examine…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Max Fawcett writes that the willingness to accept avoidable illness in children is an inescapable sign of an overall sick society, while…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Richard Smith highlights how there’s no general connection between the cost of health care and patient incomes across different models of funding and…
Musical interlude
Andain – You Once Told Me
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Philip Aldrick reports on the UK’s belated recognition that long COVID likely bears responsibility for a massive and sustained spike in inactive workers.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Angella MacEwen discusses how the Bank of Canada is fighting a class war on the side of the rich by pushing to…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Belinda Smith writes about the effect COVID-19 has on the immune system – including its making subsequent infections more severe. Karen Landman makes…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Benched cats.
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Beth Gardiner discusses how the oil industry has long understood how much fossil fuels would damage the Earth’s climate (even while fighting tooth…
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The OECD issues a report on the importance of avoiding climate tipping points – and the reality that we’re on pace to…
The Alberta Sovereignty Act: A Pas a Deux With Danielle Smith and Stephen Harper
I’m not going to use the full title of that act – partly because it’s ridiculously long, and like many things out of the UCP, utterly devoid of real meaning.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olha Puhach, Benjamin Meyer and Isabella Eckerle examine what we’ve learned about viral shedding from the COVID pandemic so far, while Bhanvi Satija…
Musical interlude
Elderbrook – Beautiful Morning
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Umair Haque discusses why the 2020s are turning into a particularly bleak decade as people are buried under a perpetually larger mountain of…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rong-Gong Lin Il and Luke Money report on CDC findings showing that U.S. infants under 6 months had hospitalization rates as high…
The Alberta Sovereignty Act – First Thoughts
Yesterday, Danielle Smith tabled the “Alberta Sovereignty Act”. I haven’t read through it all yet, but like the rest of you, I’ve seen the commentary in the news, and to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Greg Iacurci discusses how long COVID is set to cause trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S.’ economy (to say nothing of…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Aligned cats.