Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Puthussery et al. study the feasibility of real-time, location-based air sampling to identify the presence of COVID-19, while Jennifer La Grassa…
inequality
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. – Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner discuss how even crucial advances like vaccines are under threat due to the ruthlessly persistent anti-science message…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses how many patients whose senses of taste and smell have been affected by COVID-19 never fully recover, while the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katrina vanden Heuvel writes that the same plutocrats who have chosen to value the lives of most of humanity at nil are pouring…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the absurdity (and manufactured idiocy) that results in us continuing with extractive business as usual as we enter a…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thom Hartmann offers a reminder of the broad-based growth and social progress which is possible when capitalists are required to pay reasonable…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Wallace-Wells writes that the U.S.’ neoliberal political consensus may finally have dissolved – though that possibility is of little comfort when…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Fiona Harvey reports on the World Meteorological Organization’s warnings that we’re more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees of global warming over…
Health and homelessness
I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness, with a focus on high-income countries. Each chapter gets uploaded to my website as it is completed. The latest chapter, on health,…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Will Stone writes about the role viral reservoirs may be playing in both prolonging individual long COVID symptoms, and allowing for the…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Martha Lincoln and Anne Sosin discuss the lack of sustained improvement in the social conditions which exacerbated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Yong discusses how the brutal realities of long COVID are being systematically erased from the public eye. And Josh Lynn reports…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Evelyn Lazare discusses how the refusal of the powers that be to act to mitigate an ongoing pandemic is only ensuring that its…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kenyon Wallace writes that the only reason we’re not observing large COVID waves is that we’ve been pushed to accept a perpetual…
What did Canada’s recent federal budget do for housing and homelessness?
I’ve written a blog post about what Canada’s recent federal budget did for housing and homelessness (which wasn’t very much). Here’s my analysis: https://nickfalvo.ca/canadas-2023-federal-budget/
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lisa Schnirring reports on new research showing how infection with COVID-19 tends to lead to extended sick leave, while Helen Twohig et…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – IOS Press discusses new research showing that COVID-19 accelerates the cognitive decline in people already living with dementia. F. Perry Wilson examines how…