Thursday 15 October 2020

Trade Me

Wellington’s old air traffic control tower has gone up for sale.



The Great Unread

 On William Deresiewicz’s ‘The Death of the Artist’.



‘Solastalgia’

Arctic inhabitants overwhelmed by new form of climate grief.



Brave New Schools


12 step recovery program for whiteness at university.



France Reports Record 30,000 Cases In 24 Hours

 As Europe tops US tally yet again.



Shouldn’t That be Woke Forest?

Wake Forest University offers new ‘antiracist use of math’ class.




T Cell Cross-reactivity

 And the Herd immunity threshold.



Algorithms of Suppression

Coming for you.



Sunday 11 October 2020

How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment

To preserve nature, we need to open our minds to it.



I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book

What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, ‘genius,’ Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.



Coincidences in Vancouver

 Suggest China money laundering funding disruption in US.



Who Would Have Guessed

Anti-Trump New England Journal Of Medicine Is partnered with a Chinese Communist publishing house.



Washington Watching as Beijing’s Space Power Grows

The latest U.S. Defense Department report on Chinese military power recounts Beijing’s growing space and counterspace capabilities.




Tiny Forests Are Springing Up All Around Europe, Inspired By Japan

To help restore biodiversity.



Why Won’t the Sin Wash Away?

When thinking ethically goes awry.



The Storytellers of Empire

Captivated by an image of an atom bomb falling on Japan, Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie asks American writers why “Your soldiers will come to our lands, but your novelists won’t.”