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Sharon Begley

January 24, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the New York Times obits: Sharon Begley, a Top Science Journalist, Is Dead at 64 Long at Newsweek, she was regarded as one of her generation’s pre-eminent science writers. An “Enlightenment-era figure,” Jon Meacham said. … Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, wrote on Twitter that Ms. Begley would … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Future of Work, IT Failures, Obituaries, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Journalism, Journalist, New York Times, Newsweek, STAT, Wall Street Journal

The Habituation of Horror

September 11, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Ed Yong writes in the Atlantic about America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral and ends with this: 9. The Habituation of Horror The U.S. might stop treating the pandemic as the emergency that it is. Daily tragedy might become ambient noise. The desire for normality might render the unthinkable normal. Like poverty and racism, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: changing climate, COVID-19, extinctions, False Dichotomies, Magical Thinking, mass incarceration, Normality, police brutality, poverty, racism, school shootings, sexual harassment

How a Plan to Save the Power System Disappeared

August 30, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it. The Atlantic Story by Peter Fairley

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Future of Work, Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: 2018, Aaron Bloom, Alex Fitzsimmons, carbon policy, carbon pricing, Catherine “Katie” Jereza, Cathy Tripodi, Charles Koch, climate change, climate change deniers, coal, coal-industry, DOE, Interconnections Seam Study, Jereza, Joshua Novacheck, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, Paris climate-change agreement, power grids, power plants, Power System, Rick Perry, Seams, Secretary of Energy, The Grid, Tom Sloan, Tripodi, Trump administration, U.S. Department of Energy

New York Review of Books Strikes Again

July 4, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

One scathing essay and one graphic strip in the New York Review Daily which need sharing: The first is an essay from David Rothkopf: ‘The Most Ignorant and Unfit’: What Made America’s Worst Ever Leader? “Being president,” former First Lady Michelle Obama has said, “doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.” In … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: American exceptionalism, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Donald Trump, Franklin Pierce, George W Bush, Herbert Hoover, James Buchanan, John Tyler, King George III, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Thomas Paine, Warren G. Harding, William Henry Harrison

Republicans are hypocrites. They happily ‘de-funded’ the police we actually need

June 17, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Guardian, again, hits the nail on the head with this spot on essay “Republicans are hypocrites. They happily ‘de-funded’ the police we actually need” by David Sirota: After two weeks of police violence and protests, Republican politicians have been pretending to have a fainting spell over the phrase “defund the police.” “There won’t be … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, Nuclear Industry, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: antitrust, Chemical Safety Board, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Products Safety Commission, Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Internal Revenue Service, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Securities and Exchange Commission

Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19

June 3, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the Guardian today, June 3, 2020, is an essay on the remarks from Jane Goodall about farming practices and food habits. “If we do not do things differently, we are finished,” she said. “We can’t go on very much longer like this.” She called for people to be lifted out of poverty, pointing to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Future of Work, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Compassion in World Farming, Coronavirus, COVID-19, exotic pets, factory farming, farming, food, Jane Goodall, Janusz Wojciechowski, poverty, Stella Kyriakides, tourism, traditional medicine

The NEWS you may not have read …

May 31, 2020 by sergneri 1 Comment

In the Columbia Journalism Review is an essay The bad news quietly buried during the pandemic by Zoë Beery: With the world’s attention glued to the coronavirus pandemic, news about anything else has been slipping farther and farther down the proverbial front page. But that doesn’t mean nothing’s been going on. Whether by design or … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Airlines, Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Wheeler, Brett Kavanagh, carbon offsets, Coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, department of Defense, EPA, food stamps, fuel efficiency standards, Immigration, Jared Kushner, Justin Walker, Keystone XL, Mitch McConnell, oil sands, pandemic, PATRIOT Act, President Trump, Stephen Miller, watchdog

Big Oil Finally Runs Out of Gas

May 14, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Over at the New York Review of Books Daily, Bill McKibbon writes about the how big oil is losing its “big”. Read it here, from May 12, 2020. A study published this week in the journal Nature by economists at the Beijing Institute of Technology calculated that while investments to reduce greenhouse gases in line … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: Berkshire Hathaway, Big Oil, Exxon, fossil fuel industry, greenhouse gases, JPMorgan Chase, Lee Raymond, renewable energy

Just a dream

April 18, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

At about 04:30 AM this morning, I woke while dreaming that I was watching Joe Biden’s inauguration speech on TV. Biden was speaking of the need for a green new-deal and infrastructure initiative to put America back to where it should be and increase employment. It was the most pleasant dream I’ve had in many … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Flying, Future of Work, Pandemic, Politics, Sea Stories, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: 2020 Election, Biden, green infrastructure, green new-deal, inauguration

The Beard is Gone

April 6, 2020 by sergneri 2 Comments

Last time I shaved off my beard was in 2009, just after I was fired during the recession. Then I did it just to see what was under the facial hair, as part of the ritual of self-examination during a fit of depression. This time I cut it off slowly to make sure my face … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Content, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: balaclavas, climate emergency, consumptions, face masks, fatal weight, health care, Muffin, mustache, my beard, Pandemic Journal, soul patch
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