Drug users erupt after San Francisco moves to tie welfare to drug testing.
Lawrence Winkler is a physician, traveler, and natural philosopher. His molecules have morphed from medicine to manuscript. He lives with Robyn on Vancouver Island and in New Zealand, tending their gardens and vineyards, and dreams.
Saturday, 30 September 2023
Justin Trudeau’s Self-Immolation
The Canadian prime minister has alienated the largest democracy on Earth and played host to a former Nazi. And that was just this week.
‘Debate Me, Jenny!’
A deli owner and a homeless activist finally confront one another about the conditions on San Francisco’s streets.
Friday, 29 September 2023
The Ends of Knowledge
Academics need to think harder about the purpose of their disciplines and whether some of those should come to an end.
The Cabin on the Mountain
‘Sometimes, the mechanism of the answer is something ludicrously complex, a thing that must be pieced out bit by bit. Other times, the solution requires retooling your perspective.’
Deep Time Sickness
In Mexico, people who are ‘touched’—reveal that geological traumas, like earthquakes, can destabilize our concepts of health, identity and even time.
Finding Hope In The Dark Power Of Fungus
Fungi can take on the mess and the junk, the waste and the abandoned, break it all down and transform toxin into life.
The Race to Catch the Last Nazis
A lifetime after the Holocaust, a few of its perpetrators somehow remain at large. And the German detectives tasked with bringing them to justice are making a final desperate push to hunt them down.
The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever
Bryan Johnson is working on what he calls ‘the most significant revolution in the history of Homo sapiens.’
Thursday, 28 September 2023
Time Stands Still in Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris Lair
The long-contested, now beloved French singer’s home is open to the public, with everything exactly as it was on the day he died in 1991.
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
The Discovery Of Copper
Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth’s crust and oceans.
It May Now Be Game Over For Justin Trudeau
The Canadian Prime Minister has met his match in refreshing Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre.
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I’m not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.
The Cluster B Society
Psychological dysfunction is now valourized and embedded in our institutions. We need to understand what we’re dealing with.
Monday, 25 September 2023
Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed
A broad genetic study has revised the prevailing narrative about how wine grapes spread around the world.
