Dig Coal? Catch Up.
Addressing Mike Dunn (who digs coal), as he rants on Carla Beck‘s NDP page: Mike Dunn (in quotations) “However the data centers pretty much ensure that coal will be in…
science
EV1 History
Charge Across America in the late 1990s was a forerunner to Sun Country Highway’s cross-continental EV trip with a Tesla Roadster at charging stops it set up all across Canada…
Electric vehicles
Additional facts regarding Mr. Farrell’s and Mr. McCutcheon’s posts on EVs. Where is the EV market booming? SE Asia expects to distribute 23 million units. The UK loves EVs. Europe…
Promising, troubling, and terrifying
MIT Technology Review’s annual list of ten breakthrough technologies includes innovations that appear entirely beneficial, but others carry the potential for serious harm.
Updated for 2026: Civic Hatchback vs. LEAF Hatchback
This is a continuation of my series showing what it costs to buy a used EV instead of a comparable used gas car. I think most people have the wrong…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Hamilton Nolan writes about the inherent conflict between the politics of centrist inaction and the serious and urgent problems which require courageous and immediate…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Gabriel Zucman discusses the dangers of an era of trillionaires, as well as the option available to rein in obscene wealth and power.…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Henry Miller calls out the Trump regime's sabotage against American science and research. Matthew Yglesias writes that the return of screwworm to the U.S.…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Alistair Alexander discusses how AI has been turned into a multi-trillion-dollar collapse machine, while Benjamin Lopez Steven and Kate McKenna report on the Carney…
Civilization Dying
I’ve been tinkering with a cassette tape player. It was without a power cord. I found a compatible cord in the garage, and learned the player is not working. I…
129 Year Old Lost Film Found
The earliest example of a film featuring a robot was found in a library. It’s a bit degraded at the very end, but it’s a short film, and appears to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The UN Environmental Programme's Emissions Gap Report examines the painfully slow progress toward reining in global warming even as the technology to eliminate emissions…
Not Just a Health Issue
Professor Lidia Morawska just won a quarter million dollar science prize for her work in proving that Covid is airborne, against the WHO's public announcement to the contrary back in…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Cole Nowicki and Casey Michel each review Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage as a chronicle of how tech giants and their uber-wealthy principals have fallen…
Dear Skeptic Mag: Kindly Fuck Right Off
So, over at Skeptic, we find an article criticizing "experts" (read academics, researchers, etc) for being "too political". Put kindly, this is complete stupidity - from people who should be…
Dear Skeptic Mag: Kindly Fuck Right Off
So, over at Skeptic, we find an article criticizing "experts" (read academics, researchers, etc) for being "too political". Put kindly, this is complete stupidity - from people who should be…
Save Your Mind, Save Your Freedom, And Save The World – Slow Down
As Chogyam Trungpa said, “The first thing to do is cut the speed.” Slow down. Unplug from all media and electronics. Make time for stillness, silence and solitude. Reflect. Read,…
Dire Wolves, GMOs, And The Madness Of Modern “Civilization”
Dire wolves have now been “brought back from extinction”, through clever, or extremely reckless, genetic engineering. This is totally insane. The reason we have massive species loss, the sixth great…