Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Bryan Bushard reports on research showing how football games served as COVID-19 superspreaders even when less transmissible versions were circulating in 2020. And…
climate change
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Melody Schrieber examines the new face of the COVID-19 mortality burden, with older people (particular in nursing homes and long-term care) even…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Heather Scoffield examines the lessons we should be learning from the COVID-19 pandemic if it hadn’t been disappeared down the memory hole. And…
A bias for inaction
In the hugely successful business book In Search of Excellence, co-authors Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman listed eight attributes of excellent, innovative management. Number one proposed a “bias for action.”…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Winnie Byanyima discusses the importance of cooperation and coordination in responding to a pandemic. But Michael Lee contrasts the consistent message from…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Rob Stein discusses the CDC’s recognition that new, more evasive COVID strains are becoming dominant in the U.S. Megan Ogilvie and Kenyon Wallace…
The Polycrisis and Planetary Palliative Care
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon and Johan Rockström wrote about the “Cascade of Crises” we’re experiencing right now. They discuss global hunger, people forced to moved, political authoritarianism, violations of human rights,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Manina Etter et al. study the causes of neurological damages arising out of COVID-19. And Roni Caryn Rabin reports on the recent…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tori Cowger et al. study how the presence or absence of mandatory masking policies affects the number of COVID-19 cases among students…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gwynn Guilford and Lauren Weber report on the recognition by economists that COVID-19 continues to be a mass disabling event – even as…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Erin Prater reports on research showing how long COVID may be traced to excessive pruning of connections in the brain. Faye Flam highlights…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Keenan Sorokan reports on the unprecedented number of students out sick from school in the Saskatoon area, while Karen Bartko reports on…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan writes that in the face of an impending self-inflicted recession, governments should be using their available resources (and taxing the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Knvul Sheikh reports on new research showing how a single COVID-19 can “rebound” whether or not it’s been treated with Paxlovid. Pooja Toshniwal…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ewen Callaway discusses the COVID-19 “variant soup” which we’ll be drowning in this winter due to the deliberate elimination of any public…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lara Herrero discusses how infection with COVID-19 can leave people more vulnerable to all kinds of other diseases. And the Canadian Press reports…
Climate emergency warnings
The effects of human-caused global warming are happening now, are irreversible on the timescale of people alive today, and will worsen in the decades to come…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Star Phoenix reports on Saskatchewan’s latest COVID-19 data showing 26 more deaths in just the last two weeks along with a rising…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on the lives lost to COVID-19 in Ontario workplaces and the deliberate choice by employers and governments to enable…
Ominous warnings: emissions increasing, not decreasing
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), an intergovernmental organization with 193 member states and territories, issued an ominous climate change warning on October 26, 2022. The cold reality is that G20…