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...

CANDISS:  But you could be setting fire to things while adding fuel. BARTHALAHMEU:  What do you mean? C:  Well, you have no information....

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

NOAH: Someone was telling me how the Gospel of Mark, according to Mark, St. Mark the Evangelist, was originally transmitted by itinerant...

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...

Late one night my wife returned home And my wife, she was without her shoes And so I asked my wife “Wife, where are your shoes?”

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...

EVERY EXPERT:  Putin just has nothing to gain from launching a war with Ukraine. He would never do it. ME:  I don’t know about that. ALL...

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...

March 2014: Mme Dienne LaCarétt, mother of post-neo-colonial orthonarcotics, looked up and down, high and low, walking the length of the long, long rows of tall, tall shelves. And she walked this way back, scouring each spiny wall like a hungry tapir homing in on rotting fruit obscured by fallen leaves. Eventually a librarian noticed, approached, and asked “May I help you find what you’re looking for?” “Nope” said Dienne, crisp and sure, as she walked along. “Have you used th

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

NADAV: It’s difficult to understand how we aren’t gleefully waltzing toward a global war. VANDANA: And the real thing, not the isolated pseudo-conflicts we’ve been dabbling in for two decades. NADAV: Yeah. VANDANA: Indeed, that’s my sense. And I've been hearing others riffing about this. NADAV: These things just seem to spark off. Do they not? I'm no historian. VANDANA: Folks have to want it, I suppose. But there are loads of triggers and slopes. NADAV: And how many co

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