Personal posts:

Formative Fires - A drive through memories of the 2017 BC wildfire season, twinned to paralleling tunes.

Syllables of Existence - An attempt at expressing what meaning I bring to the world encountered on a daily basis.

Memories, Randomly Accessed - A student and a professor meet in Tokyo. Plus a video of Scramble Crossing in Shibuya underscored by Daft Punk.

It'll have to go - Comments on cricket (the sport) and Krikkit (the fictional planet).

The complete collection of Weekly Picks from the past month:

March 3, 2024

• Adeus aos Livros (Goodbye to Books)
• Silencing of the Girls
• I’ve Been Unhoused. It Could Happen to You. Let’s Stop Criminalizing It.
• The Academics Helping the Meat Industry Avoid Climate Scrutiny
• At the Recycling Centre
• The Cost of Our Debris
• How the Eclipse Will Change Solar Science Forever
• Gaza and Israel, a New Word Association Game

March 10, 2024

• The Dragons Amid the Tigers
• A World Nobody Wants
• What Independent Bookshops Really Sell
• The Suburbs Made the War on Drugs in Their Own Image
• Scientists are throwing a sex party for giant conchs in Florida
• Cathedrals of Convention

March 17, 2024

• The Revolution Will Be Caring
• Sisyphus on the Street
• The Open-Air Prison for ISIS Supporters—and Victims
• ‘Fire Weather’: Big Oil’s Climate Conflagration
• Intractable Crisis
• Why the world cannot afford the rich
• Gangsters, money and murder: How Chinese organized crime is dominating Oklahoma’s illegal medical marijuana market
• The Plight of Japan’s Ama Divers
• Journalism’s Slow Death Threatens Democracy

March 24, 2024

• Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible?
• Botswana’s inspirational women safari guides who are navigating change
• The Fading Memories of Youth
• Empire of the ants: what insect supercolonies can teach us
• Rejecting the Binary
• AP finds grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls ‘dangerous and abusive’
• In oil country, First Nation with high cancer rates accuses AER of ‘regulated murder’
• The Basis of Everything: The Fragility of Character in a Truth-Challenged World
• Abolish the clubs: The chumocracy is poison for democracy
• It’s dirty work

March 31, 2024

• Aid Wars
• Zombie forensics
• The Women Who Found Liberation in Seaweed
• Antimarket
• Of Life and Lithium
• Light at the End of the Tunnel
• The Gaza Strip has been destroyed. So has hope for a fair future for the two peoples.

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