Friday, 16 July 2021

The Need for a New Garden City Movement

In the early 1900s, a strange and wonderful planning fad caught on. It can still help us think about building livable places.



Micro-totalitarianism

The political left has come up with a new buzzword: ‘micro-aggression.’



President Kamala Would Destroy America

A dangerous ideology is capturing institutions and threatening national security.



Smells Fishy

Asian Carp are being renamed because the species is offended.





Thursday, 15 July 2021

Why Cops Are Quitting

Police officers no longer feel that they have the public’s support.



Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Our Bare-faced Teflon PM Blunders Merrily Along

Usually governments are not defeated; they defeat themselves. This government has gone to extraordinary lengths to do that, but to no avail.



Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin

The misperception that paramedics are merely ambulance drivers is everyone’s problem.



Tel Aviv Will Test Dog Poop DNA to Fine Owners Who Don’t Clean Up

City council approves setting up database, obligating owners to submit their pets’ DNA details when receiving license.



The Soviet Spectre Haunting Afghanistan

When the war ended in 1988, it was not because the Soviets had been beaten on the battlefield but because they had been exhausted.



Monday, 12 July 2021

Canada Has Abandoned Middle Class

A powerful work that aims to unlock stagnating wages, by adjusting immigration and boosting productivity.



Sunday, 11 July 2021

Mathematx

Ideas from ethnomathematics (including Western mathematics), postcolonial theory, aesthetics, biology, and Indigenous knowledge in order to propose a new vision for practicing mathematics.




Insect Scientists Dropping Common Names for 2 Species that Included an Ethnic Slur

If people are feeling excluded because of what we call something, that’s not acceptable,” the president of the Entomological Society of America said.