PEREGRINE PULP

I was perfectly happy to disregard the “drone” reports as media-induced mass panic. And then government officials began assuring the...

A paper was just quietly published showing several independent large language models, all the latest versions of the big ones from all...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) just published "Women and girls bear the brunt of conflicts..." In the thread that followed they described how, for example, "The escalating humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, continues to force thousands of people to flee, the vast majority of whom are women." With that they shared three other examples of terrible violence, really the worst kinds of things your imagination can conjure, experienced by p

I don’t even know how you would explain to future generations what has taken place over the last decade. So much context is needed just...

So what is this fluoride panic about? It’s certainly not about the existing evidence.

The Quinsam River, just outside Campbell River  on Vancouver Island, has just seen the highest pink salmon return in a decade . And this...

I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...

According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...

I was told to go read something said to be a newly published and “damning UN report about Israeli war crimes and ‘extermination’ via its war on Gaza's hospitals.” The document was a Report of Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel . It is the third such report to the UN General Assembly by this group and covers the period from October 7th, 2023 to August of 2024. The report states at the outs

I haven’t had a GP since 1998. I was recently given the opportunity to apply for a rare patient spot at a local health centre. Though I have no medical concerns, I was glad to finally have someone I could see should something come up. And then I received the patient intake application form. It’s hard to describe the lunacy that is this form. As you read the following, please appreciate that this is the intake form for a health centre populated by four doctors and a team of nu

In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting   started with...

This is what I understood my ancestry to look like: My father’s family name is extremely English and my mother’s maiden name is a sort of anglicization of an Austrian surname, as I understand it. My maternal grandmother’s maiden name is also extremely English while my paternal grandmother’s could only be Scottish. And all of those folks and some of their parents and grandparents, like my parents and myself, were all born in Canada. Everyone else on the family tree I’m aware o

I was wanting to learn about and write something on how leaded gasoline became a thing. But then I came upon the biography  of its inventor.  Thomas Midgley, Jr. was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in 1889. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio and studied engineering at Cornell, earning a Master’s of Engineering in 1908 and a PhD in mechanical engineering in 1911. Five years later he was working for General Motors, at their Dayton Engineering Laboratories (DELCo) subsidiary in Ohi

A pair of revelations have surfaced relating to the pandemic. I didn't catch these being widely reported when they took place many months ago, they did not land anywhere in my news feeds, and neither were being shared or commented on by anyone I know. Instead, I accidentally stumbled upon one of these long after the fact and then the other while looking for more information about the first. DP (DURING PANDEMIC) In 2021, the US FDA was posting messages on social media and the

Folks seem to think people (other people) believe nonsense due to poor intelligence, low educational attainment, or lack of knowledge....

In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small fires were sparked by lightening. Those fires eventually grew and coalesced into one much larger conflagration. Part of that fire surrounded and consumed the ancient old-growth forests of Big Basin Redwoods State Park , along California’s central coast, just south of San Francisco and north of Monterey Bay. Though ignited by an unusual lightn

You’ve heard about the devastations to the world’s reef ecosystems. Most notably, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast saw...

In their ongoing effort to frame everything Palestinian as benevolent and peace-oriented, CBC sought once again to amplify the voice (and fabulous fabrications) of reporter and associate producer Keena Alwahaidi. Like so many before her, at the beginning of July Alwahaidi gleefully pushed the Gaza famine myth. That, of course, only came after this fiction had been debunked many times and on many fronts by anyone able and willing to muster the sympathy to look into the situat