Thursday, 1 July 2021

Fukushima: Radioactive Boars Create Mutant Hybrid Species Decade After Nuclear Disaster

Wild boars have been mating with domestic pigs in the nuclear wasteland and creating a new mutant species.





Frantz Fanon

And the crisis of mental health in the Arab world.



Sex and Death on the Road to Nirvana

One of America’s most controversial gurus had a plan to take Tibetan Buddhism mainstream. Then one of his converts died in the Arizona desert and the secrets started spilling out.



Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away

When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.




The Lazarus Heist

How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack.



The Secret History of Gavin McInnes

One of our era’s most troubling extremists.



Let’s Get Our Priorities in Order.

There’s a lot more to be outraged about in the US military than ‘wokeness.’




Canada Moves to Ban 'Hate Speech' Online

Punishable by a $40,000 fine.



O'Leary VS Suzuki Feud Reaches Fever Pitch - Lawsuits Pile Up As Sponsors Threaten CBC

In an bombshell interview, Kevin O'Leary, celebrity TV businessman reveals that he will be taking legal action against David Suzuki for his latest business venture.



Life

Inside a woke corporation.



In First, Female Tank Operators to be Deployed Along Egyptian Border

Beginning next month, an all-female armored Merkava IV company will defend the frontier as part of the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion.



The Concierge of Decline

The Biden Administration serves up complacency in the face of deterioration.



Donald Rumsfeld

Dead at 88.



Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Can We Survive Extreme Heat?

Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come.



How to Spot a Cult

According to Amanda Montell’s new book, ‘Cultish,’ the jargon and technical language of fanaticism is surprisingly common.



Canada Weather

Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records.



As Low-Income Diabetics Struggle To Afford Drug

Walmart rolls out budget insulin



Servicing Public Debt

Eroding Canada’s finances



Vetting of Student Papers is the Latest Move Against Free Speech on Campus

Sensitivity readers’ put student journalism in peril.




After Defunding the Police, San Francisco Seeks $20M

To keep homeless tent encampment running.



Earning Our Stripes

 The Aristocracy of Talent: How meritocracy made the modern world.



Why the West is Best

Western civilization may not be perfect, we haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else in human history.



Anderson’s Letter Showed Compassion, Defiance, and Dignity.

After his old master wanted him back, the freed slave’s response is a literary masterpiece.




Monday, 28 June 2021

The Math of Living Things

Exploring the intersection of physical and biological laws.



Backlash by the Bay

San Francisco residents are fed up with city officials’ lack of action on open-air drug use.



Australia's Covid Success Crumbles

Country was hailed for closed-borders zero-virus policy that let Aussies live a normal life but now cities are in lockdown as Indian variant spreads through population with just 5% vaccination rate.



Derek Chauvin, Scapegoat

The ritual the convicted Minneapolis police officer was subjected to was less a legal trial than a sort of pagan sacrifice.



Why Indigenous Programs

 Fail.



100 Years That Shook the World

 The Chinese Communist party.



Buried Truths About Aboriginal Culture

Something you would never see in a British Columbian museum.



Sunday, 27 June 2021

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir

Having lunch at the ‘La Coupole’ brasserie.



‘The Complete Memoirs’ Review: Neruda in Full

The Nobel winner’s account of his life, though beautifully rendered, can be stunningly vain and morally disturbing.



The Disease of ‘Public Health’

We are in the midst of an epidemic of lifestyle moralism.



Critics Warned the Largest Tax Increase in San Francisco History Would Be Ill-Spent

It's now funding $60,000 tents for the homeless.




Have We Reached Peak Progressive?

With few things left to liberate, progressivism is starting to eat itself.



China Just Announced That It's Sending the First Humans to Mars

Where it will build a permanent base.



How ‘Experts’ Abused Science

To saddle America with microaggression mania.




Ideas that Work

Truth, knowledge, justice – to understand how our loftiest abstractions earn their keep, trace them to their practical origins.



The Decline of the Quality Press

Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster.