Monbiot Wins Orwell Award for Journalism
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, has been awarded the George Orwell award for journalism. The prize is awarded for commentary or reporting that comes closest to meeting the ambition of George…
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Glenn McConnell reports on New Zealand’s continued leadership in acknowledging and fighting the avoidable spread of COVID-19. Arwa Mahdawi discusses why nobody…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – SBS News reports on the WHO’s warning that not only is the COVID-19 pandemic far from over, but cases are spiking globally. And…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Snuggly cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Yasmine Ghania reports on the wastewater analyses showing that Saskatchewan is facing a new COVID-19 wave. Ed Yong discusses how the BA.5…
2 Tn (USD). That’s Real Money.
The US has caused roughly two trillion dollars in greenhouse gas emissions related damages since 1990. The huge volume of planet-heating gases pumped out by the US, the largest historical…
Hello, It’s Me, the Invisible Hand of the Marketplace.
Last Friday’s fiasco with Rogers network sure caused a ruckus for the cashless society. Merchants posted makeshift cardboard signs on their front doors warning customers they better have a valid…
Is it just me?
Okay, does this guy look like a Bond villain?
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Farah Hancock offers an informative look at the circumstances where people are most likely to share air in ways that results in COVID…
Anocracy and Other Perils. America and the Next Civil War.
Is America on the verge of another civil war? A professor who studies such things contends it’s too close to tell. UC San Diego professor, Barbara Walter, is interviewed in…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Economist reports on new research estimating that COVID-19 vaccines saved 20 million lives in their first year of availability – though…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder discusses the imminent prospect of a majority of Americans suffering from long COVID as more and more dangerous variants are allowed…
Musical interlude
Lost Synths – Don’t Mind
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Benjamin Mazer writes that of all the other public health analogies, COVID-19 may prove most similar to smoking in the systematic failure of…
Running On Empty
We can’t go on living this way. That’s the warning from Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK’s chief science officer. The relationship between humans and nature is under intense and increasing…
BoJo Bids Adieu
Boris Johnson’s experiment in premiership is drawing to a close. It was a matter of one gaffe upon another until his cabinet finally took away the keys to No. 10.…
Review: The Twittering Machine
There is practically an entire industry devoted to churning out think-pieces, studies, books, and articles expressing concern about the impacts of social media and the broader spectrum of information technology…
Review: The Twittering Machine
There is practically an entire industry devoted to churning out think-pieces, studies, books, and articles expressing concern about the impacts of social media and the broader spectrum of information technology…
Is This the Final Showdown?
Sorry Developments on the climate crisis have not been encouraging. Greenhouse gas emissions that are supposed to be plunging are heading in the wrong direction. Chris Hedges put it this…