Thursday 29 November 2018
There Will Be an Interlude...
Heading home to work on The Casebook of Doctor Sababa. If you want a little light reading while I’m gone, go to
www.lawrencewinkler.com
Merry merry and Happy happy.
See you in three months.
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Monday 26 November 2018
Karst: the Latest Casualty of Clear-Cut Logging
On Vancouver Island, karst researchers hustle to save one of Earth’s most underappreciated—and fragile—ecosystems: an ecosystem hidden in plain sight.
Believing Without Evidence is Always Morally Wrong.
If there was ever a time when critical thinking was a moral imperative, and credulity a calamitous sin, it is now.
Thursday 22 November 2018
Wednesday 21 November 2018
How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.
Tuesday 20 November 2018
How the Chile Pepper Took Over the World
Until 500 years ago, the spice as we know it was confined to Central and South America. How the heat wave happened.
Monday 19 November 2018
The Future of Aging Just Might be in Maragaritaville
At the Jimmy Buffett-branded community, a hint at how an increasingly long-lived species might choose to spend its extra decades.
Sunday 18 November 2018
Friday 16 November 2018
Tuesday 13 November 2018
The Hunt for Human Nature
We still live in the long shadow of Man-the-Hunter: a midcentury theory of human origins soaked in strife and violence.
Monday 12 November 2018
Sunday 11 November 2018
Friday 9 November 2018
Thursday 8 November 2018
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Tuesday 6 November 2018
Sunday 4 November 2018
Why the Long Face?
Sadness makes us seem nobler, more elegant, more adult. Which is pretty weird, when you think about it.
Thursday 1 November 2018
Monday 29 October 2018
Thursday 25 October 2018
Wednesday 24 October 2018
The Emperor’s Woke Clothes
Campus Week: How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?
Tuesday 23 October 2018
It’s Official
The ‘Bandits of Madagascar’ Author Reading at Nanaimo North Library, Saturday October 27, 2018. I’ll bring my friends, you bring yours.
Monday 22 October 2018
Why Forests Give You Awe
There is a vastness, a solemnity, a gloom, a sense of solitude and of human insignificance which for a time overwhelm you.
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