Magazine Posts

"In choosing Joe Rogan over Neil Young, the company has made its new priorities clear to listeners"....... "The withdrawal of two of the most important living musicians obviously dents the company’s value proposition, but the bigger impact may simply be that an alarm has been sounded. Spotify faces strong competition for capturing the world’s eardrums, and Apple, Amazon, Tidal, Bandcamp, and the local record store can make a new pitch: Spend your dollars on music, not on dangerous nonsense" Read more

"The Bowlin family knew they had a history of malformations in the brain. But they had no idea how far back it went." Read more

"The devastating consequences of the world’s addiction to palm oil are well-documented. Check your cabinets and you will probably find it in half of the consumable products you own: pizza, margarine, peanut butter, detergent, candles, soaps and lotions, though it’s often disguised benignly as “vegetable oil” on the ingredients list. Between 1995 and 2015, palm oil production quadrupled, and is projected to quadruple yet again by 2050." Read more

"Imagine a personal heating system that works indoors as well as
outdoors, can be taken anywhere, requires little energy, and is
independent of any infrastructure. It exists – and is hundreds of years
old. The hot water bottle could save a great deal of energy and money
without sacrificing thermal comfort."  Read more

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"....the town with no traffic lights collected $487 in fines and forfeitures in 2020 for every man, woman and child, though many of those fined were merely passing by on I-22."
"Total town income more than doubled from 2018 to 2020 – from $582,000 to more than $1.2 million – as fines and forfeitures rose 640%." ...Read more

"The evolution of cooling technology helps to explain why supposed solutions to global warming have only made the situation worse." Read more

Image source: "New Students Reference Work, 1914 Brown Bros. - Wikimedia Commons" - Public Domain

"Of the countless things she has seen, read and learned about King’s theology and civil rights activism, Crawford details five of the countless aspects of his life that stand out" Read more

Major disruptions in world history follow a clear pattern. What can upheavals of the past tell us about our own future? Read more

"When your emotions become too painful and overwhelming, regain control using skills from dialectical behaviour therapy". Read more

The Palpa Lines, discovered in 1997, are located north of the better known Nazca Lines on the south coastal desert of Peru. They are believed to be part of the Paracas Culture (800 BCE – 100 BCE) and to pre-date the Nazca Lines.

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"Plastic production just keeps expanding, and now is becoming a driving cause of climate change"..... Read more

"A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, at least from a thermodynamic standpoint. It’s defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius (2.2 pounds by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). But when it comes to health and your body’s energy balance, not all calories are equal" Read more