Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ross Barkan takes stock of the reality that the U.S. has allowed a million people to die of a disease whose transmission could…
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You Don’t Think It’s Really Fascism?
If it’s not from Germany, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism, right? More seriously, way back when I first started this blog (in 2004), I wrote a piece about whether or not…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
That Other Virus
I came across an article in The Atlantic about a highly infectious virus that has crossed the Pacific from the US to reach the writer’s home, Australia. It has also…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Xue Cao et al. find that infection with COVID-19 produces accelerated physical aging among its other alarming effects, while Jan Hennigs et…
On historical echoes
Ontario’s ongoing provincial election is presenting some interesting echoes from previous campaigns – particularly the 2015 federal election which similarly involved a seemingly vulnerable Conservative majority, an NDP official opposition…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mark Kline warns against accepting continuing denialism about the impact of COVID-19 on children. Andre Picard discusses Canada’s grim milestone of 40,000 (reported)…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Judy Melinek offers a coroner’s perspective on the large number of ways in which COVID infection can result in death or severe…
Musical interlude
Arcade Fire – Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
Monbiot – the Fly in the Ointment
When it comes to averting climate catastrophe there are many perilous challenges but one stands head and shoulders above the rest – the very people we elect to high office.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Phil Tank offers a reminder that Saskatchewan’s citizens shouldn’t follow the lead of its government in wrongly pretending the COVID-19 pandemic is over.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Danny Halpin reports on new research showing that people who have suffered from long COVID are at far greater risk of blood…
Betting Against Humanity
Whether you like it or not, they have you firmly in their crosshairs. “They” are the fossil energy giants and they’re planning to unleash “scores of ‘carbon bomb’ oil and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction highlights the fundamentally flawed evaluation of risk which is resulting in our suffering from far…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Dozing cats.
Is the Ocean Losing Its Memory?
A new report claims our oceans are losing their memory, something that may impair our ability to predict climate extremes and our ability to manage fisheries. The study is tough…
Monbiot – The Earth Beneath Our Feet
Forget flat screen TVs and broken supply chains. How secure is the global food supply? Hint: it’s not secure, not at all. If you haven’t got enough to eat, biblical…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sheryl Gay Stoberg discusses how concerns about pharmaceutical profiteering and a lack of access in the developing world are developing for COVID-19 treatments…