Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Chris Hedges discusses how the end of empire-based colonialism has only given way to an even more exploitative corporate version. And Cory Doctorow…
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Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thais Melquiades de Lima et al. study how the tonsils are a major site for COVID-19 persistence in children. And Penny Daflos…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Leonie Thorne reports on new data showing that COVID-19 was Australia’s third-leading cause of death in 2022 even as conventional wisdom decreed that…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Saima Iqbal discusses new research showing how much of the COVID-19 virus people emit while contagious. And Erica Edwards reports on the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chris Hedges interviews Matt Kennard about the hostile corporate takeover of democracy. And Adam King highlights how Canada’s oil industry is profiteering at…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Woodside weighs in on the UN’s recognition of the need to stop our dependence on dirty energy. And Jillian Ambrose reports…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dawn Bowdish and Andrew Costa provide a reminder as to how to stay as safe as possible from COVID-19 (even as governments…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Choi reports on new research showing that updated COVID-19 vaccines help build immunity against the Eris strain. And Keenan Sorokan reports on…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Margaret Walton-Roberts and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault highlight how plans to poach workers from abroad are bound to fall short of meeting our…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews two new books on the effects of an overheating planet. Damian Carrington reports on the science tracing unprecedented heat waves…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jennifer La Grassa reports on the impending wave of the EG.5 COVID-19 variant, even as Phil Hahn warns that what little and belated…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Cory Doctorow examines how private equity systematically loots both the pension funds which provide capital for its acquisitions, and the businesses which it…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Daniel Altmann et al. examine the myriad forms of long COVID even as governments have gone out of their way to pretend…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Neil Shaw reports on the demands by Scottish doctors that their government reinstate COVID -19protections in health care facilities. And Tia Ewing reports…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Claire Pomeroy writes that the establishment’s refusal to stop the transmission of COVID-19 has created a desperate need to account for the…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jerry White discusses how the wealthiest few have continued to amass obscene riches in the first half of 2023 despite occasional rumblings…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Seth Borenstein writes that we shouldn’t treat constant wildfires as an exceptional event since we can expect them to be the norm…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jessica Wildfire writes about the desperation to return to some past normal (stoked of course by the people who profit from it)…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner discuss how even crucial advances like vaccines are under threat due to the ruthlessly persistent anti-science message…