Sunday, January 29, 2023

The inside story of Musk's Twitter takeover (and take-down)

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I have written the occasional entry about Twitter in the age of Elon Musk's ownership (I don't like Twitter and I don't like Mus...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Coffee pods, environmentally-friendly? Maybe not

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You may have seen a bunch of articles crowing about a study that shows that the carbon footprint of single-use coffee pods is lower than oth...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Hakeem Jeffries resurrects political oratory

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In a speech that has gone viral, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries showed the world that American oratory did not die with Barack Obam...

Quebec court rules on moral quandary

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In one of those almost-impossible moral quandaries that occur from time to time, Quebec's Court of Appeal has ruled that, contrary to th...

Canada's Catch-22 situation in sending tanks to Ukraine

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Canada, like Poland and Finland, wants to send some of their German-built Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine to aid in its existential fight against...

Visualizing China's dominance in battery production

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You probably already know that China has a dominant position in global battery technology. But you might not realize quite to what extent un...

Jacinda Ardern leaves politics on her own terms

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has decided to call it a day even before her current term ends. Having steered her country throug...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

El Niño is coming, expect some record temperatures

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Last year was the fifth hottest on record worldwide  (sixth warmest, according to some temperature rankings). Only fifth, you say? You might...