NON-REACTIVE
I want to love nuclear. I really do. But there’s so little to like and proponents continually refuse to win me over. Here’s just one more...
Jun 26, 20242 min read
DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As any good polymath (with backgrounds in physiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, geography, history, and anthropology, degrees from Harvard and Cambridge, and professorships at UCLA in both medicine and geography) Diamond has written several books. His first popular work came out in 1991 and was titled, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal . He followed that in
Jun 23, 202434 min read
HELL LET LOOSE
MI-CHAEL: I dunno. It’s like how I play this game. It’s a kind of World War II simulation. The creators have attempted to faithfully...
Jun 19, 202413 min read
MISNOMER
I don’t know how I got here. Somehow I developed this crazy belief that firefighters fought fires. Crazy, right? My bad. Per capita, Vancouver is one of the country’s busiest fire departments, and getting busier all the time. But almost none of that fire service activity involves firefighters marching into buildings, masks on and hoses over their shoulders, to beat back flames. As a matter of fact, if you eliminated calls for service that weren’t for fires or false alarms (w
Jun 1, 20243 min read
