"[I]t seemed so obvious from a purely psychological perspective that ‘face coverings’ were a bad idea that I believed my principal question would be: ‘How come we got saddled with the practice?’" -- Alan Kennedy, emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Dundee
This week’s News on China. • Huawei overcomes US sanctions • Giant hybrid rice yields up to 9,000 kg/h • War on pollution increases life expectancy by two years • Chinese study reveals near-extinction of humans one million years ago
This week’s News on China. • Restrictions on US investment China’s tech sector • Investment in R&D doubled in the last 5 years • Anti-corruption campaign in healthcare • Provincial renewable energy targets
What did Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau repeat ad nauseam about COVID-19 and imposing mandates? That the “government has been focused every step of the way on following the best science”? And did he ever provide any scientific evidence to follow? Critical thinking demands that people demand evidence for questionable claims, and that is a […]
During a so-called COVID-19 pandemic, many governments issued a lockdown on the citizenry. Many protested the violations of their lost freedoms given that evidence to support the lockdowns was scanty at best, but the masses were obedient and identified with their government jailers.
Colonialism has as its aim gaining ownership/control of the land and its resources regardless of whether or not the land was already populated by an Indigenous people. Morality aside, colonialism has been very successful in the context of Turtle Island. This is also true in northwestern Turtle Island, where the colonies designated “Vancouver Island” and […]
Between 1991 and 2016, the population of Delhi and its suburbs increased from 9.4 million to 25 million. In 2023, the World Population Review website estimates Delhi’s population to be 32.9 million. In the December 2016 paper Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands, it was projected that by 2030, globally, urban areas […]
Image from Ferrovial press release, “Baylor College of Medicine Receives $162,000 Donation from Ferrovial and Webber Amid COVID-19 Crisis” This article was written by a physician who writes using the pseudonym “A Midwestern Doctor”. Both Dr. Pierre Kory and I are fans of this work and insights, I subscribe to his substack, and you may […]
