Eclipse: The Experience of Totality
Being the path of totality, was one of the most incredible things I have ever witnessed. The sun’s corona during the 2017 total eclipse of the sun as seen near…
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Total Eclipse of the sun
On my way to Oregon, apparently on Monday morning a thing in the sky is going to pass in front of another thing. -via XKCD
Tumour Update
On May 16th 2017, I had my 25th and final radiation treatment. I am not certain if it was the radiation, the anti-anxiety medication which causes drowsiness, or the lack…
Bring Water
via XKCD
Book review: Private Places, Public Spaces: a woman at home in the world, by Lucina Kathmann
This is a collection of 22 non-fiction essays, written over a period of 20 years, some of them previously published. Some of them are based on the author’s long involvement…
Seven Mexican journalists murdered in first half of 2017
Mexico continues to be the one of the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist. Martín Méndez Pineda of Acapulco tried to get asylum in the US,…
The Paris Agreement withdrawal
John Oliver gives a great summary of why Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement makes absolutely no sense Or as David Roberts puts it: An agreement cannot be…
Book review: One Life, by David Lida
David Lida is an author who found a home for himself in Mexico 25 years ago. He tells the story of his first visit to Puerto Escondido, when he started…
If we could overturn global warming … how exiting would that be?
What drives scientists? – Richard Alley’s Golden Nugget h/t Variable Variability
This is science; it is not something to toy with
It is not something to say I chose not to believe e-mc2; YOU DONT HAVE THAT OPTION! When you have an established scientific emergent truth, it is true whether or…
Radiation treatment 1 of 25
I started my 25 Radiation treatments today. 1 down and 24 to go.
The very definition of willful ignorance
Chair of House Science Committee Says the Journal ‘Science’ Is Not Objective
I am getting radiated
The hope is that the radiation will stop the growth of my tumour. It wont’t, however, remove it. The success rate is roughly equivalent of the success rate of surgery…
Remember a simpler time…
… before the EPA
Hans Rossling
Hans Rosling, one of the most enlightening science communicators, passed away last week. It was his first Ted talk that thrust renowned Swedish academic Hans Rosling into the international spotlight…
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The greatest story ever told ended today: Stuart McLean, the host of CBC Radio’s The Vinyl Café and an award-winning humorist, has died at age 68 after a battle with…
I Have a Tumour…
I have a tumour; the good news is that the doctors believe it is benign. The bad news is that while it may be non-malignant it definitely isn’t benign (at…
Republican ‘elder statesmen’ officially call for a carbon tax
This is exceedingly good news! Yes these elder statesmen Republicans aren’t elected members of the government, and yes it will be difficult to convince elected Republicans of the importance of…
Hatred doesn’t stop at the border
After the horrific events at the Mosque in Quebec it is worth remembering that hatred doesn’t stop at the border. The suspect in the deadly attack on a Quebec City…
Things not to do on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the…