Saturday, 2 January 2021

Through Gilets Jaunes, Strikes and Covid

Paris’s 400-year-old book stalls fight to survive.



In Exile From the Dreamscape

We live in a wake-centric world that devalues dreaming, yet we need to experience dreams to be our authentic selves.



The Deep Anthropocene

A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet’s past and its future.



A British Man Got Drunk On Christmas Eve

And legally changed his name to Celine Dion.




American Girl’s 2021 Girl of the Year

A 10-year-old who fights climate change and takes care of sick animals at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia.



My Life in Sex: The Man Who Wears a Chastity Device

‘Rather than feeling sexually repressed, it’s given me a kind of freedom.’



Beekeepers Brace for Next Round with Canada's ‘Murder Hornets’

British Columbia resigned to a ‘long fight’ after 2020’s efforts to track and kill the invasive insects ended in frustration.



The Future of Mars Exploration

Plans that could forever change our understanding of—and relationship with—the Red Planet.



Wednesday, 30 December 2020

Bird Brains Are Far More Humanlike Than Once Thought

The avian cortex had been hiding in plain sight all along. Humans were just too birdbrained to see it.



Francisco Goya: the Embodiment of Old Spain

Janis Tomlinson’s new biography of Francisco Goya is a well-informed, comprehensive biography that would make an excellent gift for any art lover.



Nanaimo Hospital to Expand Treatment

Of local assholes.




The Left is Paralysed by Disgust

If you hate your country, you cannot change it.



Trudeau’s Undermining of Democratic Traditions Advances a Socialist Agenda

We must assume he will relentlessly pursue this ideological vision, especially if he wins a majority government.



What keeps Trudeau from Sanctioning China for Human Rights Abuses?

On Monday a court in the People’s Republic of China handed citizen journalist Zhang Zhan a 4-year prison sentence for on-the-ground reporting in Wuhan on the COVID-19 outbreak. 




The True Story of the White Island Eruption

It was supposed to be a routine six-hour tour, including the highlight: a quick hike into the island's otherworldly caldera. Then the volcano exploded



Tuesday, 29 December 2020

Vikings in America

Centuries before Columbus, Vikings came to the Western hemisphere. How far into the Americas did they travel?



A Caveman Would Never Do CrossFit. Why There’s Nothing Natural About Exercise

A new book debunks popular myths, including ‘that your inner primal macho ripped hunter-gatherer ancestor is who you were meant to be’



Falklands Land Grab: Argentina Gloats After EU Agrees to Exclude Islands from Brexit Deal

Argentina’s Foreign Minister Felipe Sola has taken to Twitter to crow about the exclusion of the Falkland Islands from the EU-UK Brexit deal - and implied he was instrumental in persuading the bloc to do so.



Sunday, 27 December 2020