Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Umair Irfan writes about the implications of COVID-19 having been allowed to spread and mutate to the point where monoclonal antibodies are ineffective…
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Musical interlude
Serge Devant & Damiano feat. Camille Safiya – Fearing Love
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Shiloh Payne reports on new numbers from the World Health Organization showing that COVID-19 is responsible for nearly 15 million excess deaths around…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katie Camero discusses how the belief that the COVID-19 pandemic is over (pushed by businesses and politicians eager to avoid responsibility for…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Madeleine Ngo discusses how Americans (particularly with lower incomes) have been forced to spend any nest egg they managed to build up from…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cozy cats.
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”…
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…