Nov 69 min read
SO WHAT IS THIS ABOUT, EXACTLY?
So what is this fluoride panic about? It’s certainly not about the existing evidence.
Nov 31 min read
SALMON RUN
The Quinsam River, just outside Campbell River on Vancouver Island, has just seen the highest pink salmon return in a decade . And this...
Oct 193 min read
IT'S UP TO YOU
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...
Oct 153 min read
NOT SO FAST
According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...
Oct 1013 min read
"FACTUAL FINDINGS"
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...
Oct 65 min read
INTAKE
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...
Sep 45 min read
HEAT RASH
In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting started with...
Sep 15 min read
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
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...
Aug 316 min read
PROBLEM SOLVING - A CAUTIONARY TALE
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...
Aug 277 min read
QUIET REVERSALS
A pair of revelations have surfaced relating to the pandemic. I didn't catch these being widely reported when they took place many...
Aug 233 min read
THE POWER TO MISLEAD YOURSELF AND OTHERS or AN ARGUMENT FOR DOUBT
Folks seem to think people (other people) believe nonsense due to poor intelligence, low educational attainment, or lack of knowledge....
Aug 134 min read
COMPLEX FIRE
In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small...
Aug 105 min read
A CORAL PREDICT-AMENT
You’ve heard about the devastations to the world’s reef ecosystems. Most notably, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast saw...
Jul 199 min read
FEMMES FATALES
In their ongoing effort to frame everything Palestinian as benevolent and peace-oriented, CBC sought once again to amplify the voice (and...
Jul 1516 min read
WHAT NOT TO DO WITH CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
I was hearing about all this stuff around Trump-related court cases and some being consequential far beyond those cases. Knowing nothing...
Jul 1315 min read
IT CAN'T BE THIS HARD
With a couple of communication degrees, I think of it as my job to comment on media matters. But at this point the relentless barrage of...
Jun 252 min read
NON-REACTIVE
I want to love nuclear. I really do. But there’s so little to like and proponents continually refuse to win me over. Here’s just one more...
Jun 2233 min read
DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in...