Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Carly Weeks reports on the work being done to begin to understand and treat long COVID, while Erika Edwards reports on the profiteers…
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On barriers to cooperation
It’s for the best that the NDP and Libs have been able to come to terms on a supply and confidence agreement which should at least provide for substantial material…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Wallace-Wells examines the massive global toll of excess deaths from COVID-19 (likely far exceeding even the already-alarming official counts). Nele Brusselaers et…
Czar Vladimir Changes Course, Accuses West of "Cancel Culture."
By most accounts, Vlad Putin’s blitzkrieg on Ukraine isn’t the grand triumph he was counting on. It’s an embarrassment to the former KGB colonel whose real enemies surround him within…
Musical interlude
Gorgon City, DRAMA – You’ve Done Enough
Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapses
Relax, it’s not the Thwaites ice sheet. You might have to wait a few years for that one. It’s the Conger ice sheet, at 1,200 sq. kms. a good deal…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Winnie Wan Yee Tso et al. study the severity of the Omicron BA.2 COVID variant, and find that its rate of deaths and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that another U.S. COVID wave may severely test what’s already proven to be an alarming willingness to accept injury…
Some Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Words
Voila, courtesy of The Tyee.
Eliot Cohen "Why Can’t We Admit Ukraine is Winning?"
Writing in The Atlantic, professor and author, Eliot Cohen, argues that we’re selling the Ukrainians short in their battles with invading Russian forces. The West’s biggest obstacle to accepting success,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dayne Patterson discusses the continued recognition among doctors that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over (and indeed approaching another particularly dangerous phase).…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats dreaming big.
The Dreaded "E" Word or Good Intentions On the Road to Hell
Canada must stop producing fossil fuels by 2034. 12 more years if mankind is to have a break-even chance of arresting global warming at 1.5C. A study out of the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Crawford Killian writes about the dangers of becoming unduly relaxed about a new COVID wave (with particular reference to South Korea’s experience).…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque discusses how the corporate-driven surrender to COVID – like so many of the choices which value profit over well-being – reflects…
Meanwhile, in Existential News
With people riveted to the outrage in Ukraine or the Covid rollercoaster or the pump price of gasoline, the existential threat facing humanity has become an orphan. It isn’t that…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lauren Pelley and Adam Miller discuss the reality that Canada has never seen its previous COVID wave fully recede even as a…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Moira Wyton writes about the growing chorus of experts warning that we’re on the verge of another deadly wave of COVID-19. Shira Lurie…
Musical interlude
Diplo feat. Amtrac & Leon Bridges – High Rise
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Yong laments the U.S.’ particularly dangerous spin through the pandemic cycle of panic and neglect as it is eliminating all federal funding…