PEREGRINE PULP

Maybe twenty years ago I was writing about the strangeness of finding myself labelled an ‘atheist’. To begin with, I was argued that...

A team of researchers from Conservation International conducted a survey in the heart of Peru during the summer of 2022. Their rapid...

I was perfectly happy to disregard the “drone” reports as media-induced mass panic. And then government officials began assuring the...

A paper was just quietly published showing several independent large language models, all the latest versions of the big ones from all...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) just published "Women and girls bear the brunt of conflicts..." In the thread...

I don’t even know how you would explain to future generations what has taken place over the last decade. So much context is needed just...

So what is this fluoride panic about? It’s certainly not about the existing evidence.

The Quinsam River, just outside Campbell River  on Vancouver Island, has just seen the highest pink salmon return in a decade . And this...

I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...

According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...

I was told to go read something said to be a newly published and “damning UN report about Israeli war crimes and ‘extermination’ via its...

I haven’t had a GP since 1998. I was recently given the opportunity to apply for a rare patient spot at a local health centre. Though I...

In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting   started with...

This is what I understood my ancestry to look like: My father’s family name is extremely English and my mother’s maiden name is a sort of...

I was wanting to learn about and write something on how leaded gasoline became a thing. But then I came upon the biography  of its...

A pair of revelations have surfaced relating to the pandemic. I didn't catch these being widely reported when they took place many months...

Folks seem to think people (other people) believe nonsense due to poor intelligence, low educational attainment, or lack of knowledge....

In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small...