Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about immunologist Chris Goodnow’s belated recognition that COVID isn’t over only after he was hit with acute myocarditis, while Korin…
Housing
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jacob Stern asks whether the new normal is to blithely accept large numbers of avoidable COVID deaths – and sadly the answer to…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Laura Ungar reports on the message from experts that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. And Jon Kamp discusses the reality that…
Theory and homelessness
I’m writing an open access e-textbook on homelessness. Chapter 2, focused on theory, has just been published. The full chapter is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Falvo-Chapter-2-Theory-and-homelessness-19aug2022.pdf A ‘top 10’ overview of the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Ackerman reports on what Saskatchewan can expect from a COVID wave allowed to sweep across the province without precautions. Eva Ferguson points…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Wency Leung asks how much more of a human toll we’re willing to accept in order to operate in denial of a…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jonny Thomson writes about the philosophy of “lagom” as an alternative to perpetually demanding more. But Matt Gurney notes that on a…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBS reports on the Walk to Remember intended to highlight the continued need for long COVID supports. And Elizabeth Thompson reports on the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Kayla Kuhfeldt et al. study the effect of a combined vaccine and masking policy, and find that those basic public health measures were…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your long weekend reading. – David Macdonald writes that if there’s a risk of a recession being caused by interest rate hikes, it’s because people with…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rhythm Sachdeva reports on research which has documented the effectiveness of COVID-19 testing in advance of events (just in time for governments to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Gregory reports on new research showing that tens of millions of adults may already be facing long-term loss of smell and/or…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sasha Warren reports on new research showing that people suffering from long COVID may not be fully clearing the coronavirus from their systems…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes that the decision to stop doing anything to limit the spread of COVID-19 is opening the door for a forever…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Danny Altmann discusses how infection with COVID-19 tends to produce weakness and long-term illness rather than immunity, while Tom Livingstone likewise notes that…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Yong writes about the need for people to keep caring for and protecting each other to make up for being abandoned…
Housing: Building Stupid on Stupider
Housing: affordability won’t come when we allow millions more McMansions to be built. The post Housing: Building Stupid on Stupider first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danielle Hitch, Aryati Yashadhana and Evelyne de Leeuw write that long COVID is following the path of acute COVID-19 in having a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mary Ward and Lucy Carroll report on New South Wales’ warning of the potential for COVID-19 reinfection as the newer Omicron variants become…
SocialCoin – The Socially Responsible Alternative to Bitcoin
I am placing this concept in the public domain for anyone with the necessary technical skills to create the structures and necessary algorithms to implement it. Wikipedia provides an extensive…