Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Umair Irfan discusses the importance of getting COVID-19 booster shots – particularly the bivalent versions better targeted toward newer strains – in order…
inequality
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alvin Chang charts some of the grim realities of long COVID which is being allowed to disable people with little to no restraint.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Moscrop hikes how Canada’s financial elite is engineering a recession to ensure that workers don’t see wage increases to match the price…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ed Yong writes that the tragic legacy of the COVID-19 is one of policymakers repeating (and indeed increasing) the same mistakes at the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Emily Henderson discusses new research showing the harm COVID-19 does to the central nervous system. And Stuart Layt reports on a new study…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Marina Hyde laments Liz Truss’ decision to hit the gas pedal on free money for the people who need it least while…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sarah Zhang discusses the absurdity of treating the COVID pandemic as being over when it’s causing more death and illness than ever, while…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Evan Xu, Yan Xie and Ziyad Al-Aly study the long-term neurological effects of COVID-19, finding elevated risks of numerous kinds of neurological…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Alpert Reyes and Aida Ylanan discuss COVID’s continued toll in lives and health even as the people in power seek to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Jim Naureckas discusses the absurdity of the New York Times (among other outlets) criticizing the idea of saving millions of lives from COVID…
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…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rachel Aiello reports on Health Canada’s approval of COVID booster vaccines targeted at the Omicron variants. And Andrew Romano discusses the hope…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kaylyn Whibbs reports on the entirely justified concerns of parents whose children have been unable to receive a COVID booster due to…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Dayne Patterson reports that what little data Saskatchewan residents have to manage to risk of COVID is showing higher levels than have been…
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 Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Topol examines the growing body of knowledge about long COVID – and the need to use that awareness to develop the means…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eric Topol writes that the only sensible response to the increased death and sickness from COVID-19 is to dedicate our efforts to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Quammen writes about the ongoing race between scientific discovery and an evolving coronavirus. And Heidi Sheehan reports on new research showing…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Maggie Mills discusses how an antisocial public health policy in the midst of an ongoing pandemic is producing a disastrous human cost (particularly…
A Sunday Reflection
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