PEREGRINE PULP

While we were all distracted with wars and pandemics, politics and social change, our basic understanding of the universe sprung a whole bunch of leaks; or, that's how I'm choosing to read this while knowing some experts may disagree. Starting roughly around 1998, our best model of cosmology, that branch of astrophysics concerning itself with the universe at its largest scales, has been something given the obscurifying acronym ΛCDM (lambda cold dark matter). But since the ad

Writing about income had me thinking about housing. I’m really not sure why anyone talks about anything else. Curiously, even when I find the matter being discussed, what's presented is seldom anything more than current rental rates or home prices and sales volumes. Pretty rare is something offering any context of any kind. As far as I can tell, adjusted for inflation, a median single family home in Victoria, BC in 1980 was around $400,000. Two decades later the median was ro

Someone online was explaining how if one earns $250,000 annually in Ontario the average tax rate is over 37% and the marginal tax rate is 50%, meaning $94,220 is taken and you are left with just $155,780. This was framed as a crime. I was attempting to propose that earning $44,000 in Ontario, around median income and far higher than full-time minimum wage, would mean tax deductions leave a person with only $32,500 — in a province where typical rent is between $26,000 and $32,

I keep reading about proposals for more pipelines to the BC coast from Alberta. Not only is all of this politics getting pretty interesting but I actually studied Alberta's oil and gas industry a little in college (and even held bitumen in my hand) and have also lived in Alberta, too, among the office towers of the oil giants. So, what comes to mind for me when there’s any talk of pipelines is what isn't commonly mentioned. That's just the little bit of history and economics

Though I don't think of myself as being passionate about nuclear energy I do try to learn what I can about it. I take book recommendations and watch informational videos, read the latest about new reactor plans and completions, and try to keep track of the state of the art in experimental fission and fusion. Knowing anything at all (some details about the performance and problems with existing reactors including the latest builds) results in discovering plenty of curious assu