Thursday 8 June 2023

China Pays Billions

To build spy base in Cuba.



California Takes a Big Step

Towards legalizing shoplifting.



The Fall of Pride Can’t Come Soon Enough

This nauseating corporate spectacle has nothing to do with the gay-rights movement of old.



The Promise and Peril of Space Tourism

A space tourism industry is being built on the proposition of personal and existential transformation. But at what cost?



BC Pharmacists Can Now Deal with Basic Ailments and Contraception

Changes mean they can assess patients and prescribe medications for things like pinkeye.



Off To A Disastrous Start

BC’s drug decriminalization experiment.



 

There’s Only One Spotted Owl Left in the Canadian Wild. Can She Be Saved?

Old-growth logging has forced the species into near extinction. Inside the race to save it.




Swimming with Mao

 Survival and family.




‘Elixir’ Review: Perfume and Science in Paris

How two 19th-century chemists made fashionable scents by day and scientific breakthroughs in the lab at night.



The Secret History And Strange Future Of Charisma

How our culture, politics and technology became infused with a mysterious social phenomenon that everyone can feel but nobody can explain.