PEREGRINE PULP

What is up with this attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) fad sweeping North America? Are you also seeing this everywhere you turn? My attention was drawn to the topic when within the span of a few weeks the most competent and productive middle-aged professional women I know simultaneously declared their status as proud members of the attention deficit community. (Me: “Wait, what? ! ”) And, of course, now that I’ve sought out more information, I’m clearly caught in

My question is: Has there been an international moratorium established to prevent the sharing of negative images, video, or audio of...

I’m politically, epidemiologically, and personally opposed to effectively everything even tangentially related to the Ottawa convoy and...

I’m not in Ottawa and have no idea what happened or is happening with this 'trucker convoy' thing. I don't know who’s involved or not,...

What is going on with the water situation in this country? For more than ten years now I’ve been hearing about serious drinking and...

[A SOCIALLY DISTANCED PANDEMIC PUB QUIZ] 1) COVID-19 will: A) Soon be forgotten B) Decide to disregard natural and anthropogenic...

I know very little about past outbreaks and pandemics (other than a few half-anecdotes about some notable events like the 1854 Broad...

Conversations about carbon dioxide and energy have been unavoidable within environmental circles and are increasingly so in the media. In...

Someone shared with me an article by a senior lecturer in sociology from Lund University, Roland Paulsen . Therein Paulsen offers a...

I was having an argument with someone about how we report our COVID cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths. My issue wasn’t...

Acquaintances of mine share video after video, post after post, and slogan after slogan that, as far as I’m able to discern, rewrite all...

We act as though seeking or divulging one’s vaccine status is simple and no big deal. I feel like it’s very complicated, more like a...

Dear Green Party of Canada, What if you dropped the misinformation, at least for official statements on key platform items. During...

Editorials and Twitter threads have arrived weekly on the issue of global vaccine equity. They’re easy to find. Every major news source...

As I’ve said all pandemic, I’m in support of very strict, even unpleasant, public health measures for combating COVID. But such measures...

In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local Environmental Observation Network in Practice For all time, who you were (sex, age, family, class…) and where you were (out hunting, at school, in jail; at the edge of the Holy Roman Empire or in downtown Tokyo…) had an exquisitely close relationship with what information and ideas you had access to and were able to share. In fact, each phen

Somehow polar bears became the symbol of climate change and species extinction. It makes some sense how this creature arrived at it poster child status. Polar bears are distributed all across the most northern regions of the globe and, given that they are the apex predator in this most climate change-impacted region, folks expected these animals to be the first and most visibly suffering. And now countless news reports, environmental campaigns, and viral social media posts te