Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tarun Sai Lomte discusses new research on the connection between structural brain changes and fatigue associated with long COVID. And Eric Topol examines…
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Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Stanford responds to the alt-right’s demonization of liveable communities by pointing out what a 15-minute city actually means. And Monika Korzun…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lucky Tran offers a reminder not to take seriously the anti-science cranks determined to claim that COVID-19 mitigation measures (including masking) should…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Francesco Pierri et al. study the roots of COVID-19 vaccine denialism, with misinformation becoming more and more prevalent as the pandemic continues. And…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Liam Mannix examines how the scientists with the deepest knowledge of the risks of COVID-19 are protecting themselves from the ongoing pandemic. And…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ann Mallen offers a personal account of the effect of the continued COVID threat on people who are already immunocompromised, while Richard Woodbury…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emma Beddington rightly questions the determination of the powers that be to pretend that COVID-19 never happened – though her attempt to…
ExxonMobil—good science and bad behaviour
Back in the dim past, society entered into a great debate about the health effects of cigarette smoking, a noxious habit I practiced myself for many years. There were always…
Why this Albertan doesn’t want the feds to “butt out”
Our quasi-separatist premier insists that her infamous Alberta Sovereignty Act was all about forcing Ottawa to “butt out” of areas that constitutionally belong to Alberta. She has however been somewhat…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Greg Jericho rightly notes that the COVID pandemic showed beyond doubt that poverty is a policy choice – which makes it all…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Max Fawcett writes that the willingness to accept avoidable illness in children is an inescapable sign of an overall sick society, while…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Cate Swannell discusses how research showing the multitude of harms which can result from COVID-19 infection. Calixto Machado-Curbelo, Joel Gutiérrez-Gil and Alina González-Quevedo…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Heather Scoffield examines the lessons we should be learning from the COVID-19 pandemic if it hadn’t been disappeared down the memory hole. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Winnie Byanyima discusses the importance of cooperation and coordination in responding to a pandemic. But Michael Lee contrasts the consistent message from…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tori Cowger et al. study how the presence or absence of mandatory masking policies affects the number of COVID-19 cases among students…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ewen Callaway discusses the COVID-19 “variant soup” which we’ll be drowning in this winter due to the deliberate elimination of any public…
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…
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.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nicola Davis, Pamela Duncan and Carmen Aguilar Garcia report that the toll of long COVID in the UK has surpassed a million people.…