Thursday, 31 August 2023

Chariots of Philosophical Fire

The University of Oxford dominated philosophy in the twentieth century. Three new books examine the brilliant if eccentric minds nurtured there.



Canada in the Year 2060

Summers lost to fire and smoke. Biblical floods. Dying forests. Retreating coasts. Economic turmoil and political unrest. It’s going to be a weird century



Are These Our Locust Years?

Unprecedented, suicidal attacks on our civilization... 

that may devour us.



Liberal City Faces Drug Crisis

Inside San Francisco’s ‘dens of death.’




The Plan To Save Italy’s Dying Olive Trees

With dogs.



‘Life or Death’

AI-generated mushroom foraging books are all over Amazon.



Neighbourhoods Deserve Compassion As Much As Drug Addicts

Community safety should be as much a priority as preventing fatal drug overdoses.



What Is Time For?

Everyone is too busy. How would we spend our time if we weren’t?



In a Storied River, Fish Are Dying in Droves as Climate Change Scorches Canada

The effects of a summer of environmental catastrophes were felt everywhere in Canada, from its vast boreal forests to a river on Vancouver Island once fished by Hollywood royalty.



Tuesday, 29 August 2023