Muddy Waters

The Buddhist priests forced to find faith in internment camps.

The Geography of the Odyssey

Or how to map a myth.

French Ban On Plastic Packaging

For fruit and vegetables begins.

How Dogs Went From Wolves To Man’s Best Friend

 They loved us long before they looked domesticated.

A Tale of Two Continents

 The story of Lemuria and Gondwana.

The Living Envelope

The fascination with skin—and its removal.

The Amazingly Cool Anna’s Hummingbird Scoffs at Winter

This hummer is a sex-crazed, smart, supercharged recent arrival.

Is China Fishing in India’s Troubled Waters?

The Chinese ambassador’s public diplomacy in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province would have won the hearts of the local Tamil population.

Deep Learning

How AI learns to be smarter.

A Revolutionary of Letters

The deft epistolary prose of Che Guevara, self-styled prophet.

Freedom Seekers

On black colonialists in seventeenth-century America.

Two Sturdy Oaks

 What Emerson and Thoreau wrote about their friendship.

China Public Shaming

Returns amid Covid fears.

COVID-19 ‘Tidal Wave’

France reports over 200,000 positive cases in 24 hours.

Paper On Racism In A Coffee Cup Scores a B

A Swedish student’s paper mocking CRT was highly rated by his university professor.

A Year Since Brexit

English winemakers get creative to beat ‘nightmare’ labour shortages.

How Defund the Police Backfired

After a spike in crime, progressive cities are reversing cuts.

Hannah Arendt

A philosopher in hard times.

How An Amateur Scientist

Became one of BC’s top wild mushroom experts.

Nothing But Solitude

When Renaissance explorers went north, they found a lunar landscape here on earth.

A World of Ice and Mires

How nature shaped the path of human history.

Company’s Recycling Technology

Is making lithium-ion batteries green.

Top Wins For the Planet in 2021

That will turn anyone into an optimist.

Top 10 Stupidest Things

Said by Canadian Politicians in 2021.

Chinese Residents ‘Starving’

As world’s strictest ‘zero Covid’ lockdown bans them leaving home even to get food.

‘It’s Just Crazy’

12 major cities hit all-time homicide records.

Jordan Peterson Says Legacy Media In ‘Death Spiral’

CBC a ‘near-corpse.’

How Woke Can You Go?

The most woke Canadian social-justice meltdowns of the past year.

Vulgar Bodies and Nasty Trades

Assigning blame during a seventeenth-century outbreak of the plague in London.

The Art of Tupaia

The author of Endeavour shares an encounter captured in watercolour.

Monarch Population Soars 4,900 Percent Since Last Year

In thrilling 2021 western migration.

The Dark Side Of The Data Explosion

We’re all digitally addicted and there’s no recovery in sight.

China Develops AI That Can ‘Prosecute’ Criminals

The system can file a charge with 97% accuracy when given a verbal account of events.

 

The Cost Of Misogyny

Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable.

The Ancient Mesopotamian Tablet as Cookbook

Kitchen-tested recipes from four thousand years ago for your next dinner party.

Across The River

Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn.

‘In Some Circumstances’

New Zealand allows euthanasia for coronavirus patients.

Doctors Given Bonus To Euthanize ‘Severely Hospitalized’ COVID Patients

Turning the ethos of medicine on its head.

Paralyzed Man With Brain Chip

Posts ‘first direct-thought’ tweet.

How Activists Are Hardwiring ‘Race Marxism’

Into the medical field.

Exodus

New York state haemorrhaging people.

‘The Obvious Thing To Do Was Simply Give It Back’

Lumber company returns waterfront property to Native American tribe in Washington State at no cost.

Flying Gardeners Defy Gravity

To keep Milan’s vertical forest alive.

Space Telescope Blasts Off From French Guiana

To replace aging Hubble.

NASA Has Hired A Priest

To help humans prepare for alien encounters.

The Fightback Against Wokeness Has Begun

The classroom will be the key battleground in the 21st-century culture wars.

A Walt Whitman Reading List

Reading recommendations from a life of letters.

The Sultan Saladin Fan Club

Tracing the path of the Crusades as it traveled through European history.

6 International Bad Guys

Thrilled to have Biden in office this year.

School Censors ‘Jingle Bells’

Because it could be ‘offensive.’