Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque is rightly frustrated that we haven’t learned and applied obvious lessons about how to fight COVID after two years, while also…
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It’s the Christmas Season, right? Right?
It’s a messy Massie Christmas to you and yours. This year the Republican congressman from Kentucky sent friends and family this lovely Christmas photo. Looks like the little one has…
If the Library Isn’t Your Thing at the Moment, Here’s Something.
Make some time, grab a cocoa, settle into your favourite chair and check out the December issue of the MIT Technology Review. That’s December, 2020. It’s jam packed with ideas…
Another Term You’ll Have to Learn – "Breakthrough"
Breakthrough describes Covid infections among the fully vaccinated. It’s our new reality. In the United States, so-called breakthrough cases — infections among the vaccinated — were less common before Omicron,…
A New One for the Climate Books – "Atmospheric Lakes"
By now most of us are aware of atmospheric rivers that usually take the form of a rapid succession of deluges that can cause flash flooding and widespread devastation of…
Is It Time to Show Anti-Vaxxers the Door?
The British Columbia government’s Covid update page has some powerful data. To date, 89.2 per cent of eligible adults have received two vaccine shots. 16 per cent also have had…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dr. Katharine Smart highlights the crucial choices which need to be made to avoid a calamitous fifth COVID-19 wave, while Chelsea Nash…
Pfizer Says…
Do you think you can stand another three years of Covid? Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) on Friday forecast that the COVID-19 pandemic would not be behind us until 2024 and said…
2024 – America’s Night of the Long Knives?
Three retired US generals have taken to the Washington Post warning of a potential coup in 2024. A number of today’s serving generals, they fear, could go rogue. The signs…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Bush discusses how the latest wave of COVID-19 would have been entirely avoidable if we hadn’t allowed corporate interests to suppress vaccine…
There’s Your Problem or How Covid Wins.
It’s a Covid Rogues Gallery. Arizona, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota and Montana. All of those states have banned or blocked vaccine mandates.…
Is This Our Warning to Change While We Can?
The Atlantic has an article “Climate Change Is Going to Be Gross.” It’s about the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul, and the mysterious appearance of something called “sea snot.” Marmara…
An Army of Damaged Minds
They’ve been around for years. Some of them might be your neighbours, colleagues perhaps even friends. However it took a pandemic to bring many of them out of the closet…
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Flight Facilities feat. Broods – Forever
A Blast from Both Barrels
I had forgotten all about Alpha. It turns out there are three Covid variants – Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. The bad news is that some people may contract more than…
Better late than never
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the running joke in Saskatchewan politics was that whatever NDP leader Ryan Meili pushed for, Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government could be counted…
The Decade of "Climate Departure"
Several years ago the climate department at the University of Hawaii released a paper warning of a phenomenon they called “climate departure” that would begin to set in during the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kai Kupferschmidt reports on the recognition among scientists around the globe that the Omicron COVID variant is almost certain to precipitate another major…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses the alarming warning indicators from our still-developing understanding of the Omicron COVID variant. Nazeem Muhajarine writes about the importance…
NYT – Has America Passed Democracy’s Tipping Points? Finis?
Times columnist Thomas Edsall writes that the United States may have parted company with democracy – for good. I think, at some level, most of us already realize this. Political…