Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Seth Borenstein, Mary Katherine Wildeman and Anita Snow find that the U.S. suffered a record number of heat-related deaths in 2023, while Aryan…
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire comments on the elite panic which has seen information suppression become the norm in order to maintain the status quo for…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brishti Basu reports on the ill effects of WorkSafeBC’s decision to push people back to work while they continue to suffer from…
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…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rebecca Leber highlights how drilling in the Arctic and other high-cost fossil fuel extraction plans are based on a sociopathic bet against any…
Nuke Happy And Spendy
I don't buy it, literally.Saskatchewan has an extremely pro SMR nuclear government, and produces a lot of the world's uranium. @SaskPower has no plan to finalize SMR plans until 2029,…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kelly MacNamara writes about the slowing of Antarctic ocean circulation as a calamitous consequence of climate change which is happening far sooner than…
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 Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The John Snow Project discusses how government minimization of the ongoing risk of COVID-19 – including the removal of what few policies remained…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Nicole Grether writes about the hundreds of thousands of young people orphaned by COVID-19 in the U.S. alone, while Kyodo News reports on…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses how the U.S. is woefully unprepared to deal with the real prospect of another pandemic (particularly on top of the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Kat Eschner interviews John Peters about the growing inequality in wealth, income and influence. And Scott Martin offers a reminder not to conflate…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William Anderson sets out a few of the most important realities about the Kraken COVID-19 variant and its place within the ongoing pandemic.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Hannah Davis et al. review what we know so far about long COVID – and how much work remains to be done in…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Shiloh Payne reports on new numbers from the World Health Organization showing that COVID-19 is responsible for nearly 15 million excess deaths around…
Fusion on Earth is Working, but Decades From Daily Use
There’s a big problem, however. Despite being able to do fusion, it’s not commercially viable, possibly for decades. This isn’t going to save us from fossil fuels in time like…
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…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ben Beckett interviews Max Desbris about the role a climate breakdown plays in exacerbating natural disasters, while Grace Livingstone and Ellen Tsang report…
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 Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that most Canadians have far more reason to fear an austerity-fuelled recession than any foreseeable level of inflation.…