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Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction

July 25, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the Guardian, Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction, A controversial MIT study from 1972 forecast the collapse of civilization – and Gaya Herrington is here to deliver the bad news

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Future of Work, IT Failures, Pandemic, Politics, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: 1972, Beyond Growth, climate crisis, Club of Rome, Earth First!, economic growth, extreme weather, Gaya Herrington, geopolitical instability, Greenpeace, Limits to Growth, MIT, Population, social unrest, sustainability

Aderrall-addicted, twice-divorced, serial-bankruptor,

July 24, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A comment from ARS TECHNICA which I really like: they’ll even claim a draft-dodging, formally-liberal, Aderrall-addicted, twice-divorced, serial-bankruptor, daughter-curious, porn-star-buying, real-estate huckster, C-list scripted ‘reality’ show host, scam university running failed vitamin salesman is the best President they’ve ever had the chance to vote for – and they’ll try to murder members of Congress to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Aderrall-addicted, C-list scripted 'reality' show host, daughter-curious, draft-dodging, failed vitamin salesman, formally-liberal, porn-star-buying, real-estate huckster, Republican, scam university running, serial-bankruptor, twice-divorced

Paul Auerbach, pioneer of wilderness and disaster medicine, dies at 70

July 21, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In a Washington Post obituary, accomplishments and life of Dr. Paul Auerbach, pioneer of wilderness and disaster medicine, are detailed. Even with his extensive training in medical emergencies, Dr. Auerbach was unprepared for the devastation he encountered when he volunteered to travel to Haiti to care for victims of the earthquake that struck the Caribbean … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: climate change, Enviromedics, Human Health, Paul Auerbach, SEMPER, Stanford Emergency Medicine Program for Emergency Response, Wilderness Medical Society

Joe Manchin – The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil.

July 20, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil. Surprised? The Guardian – Alex Kotch 20-JUL-2021 Joe Manchin owns millions of dollars in coal stock, founded an energy firm and Exxon lobbyists brag about their access to him. Republicans fund raise on his behalf

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Politics, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: Big Oil, coal, conflict-of-interest, Edison Electric Institute, Enersystems, ethics, Exxon, filibuster, Joe Manchin, lobbyists, Republicans, West Virginia

FIP

July 19, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I am reading an article in the Atlantic – “What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies?”. I do use some music streaming services and there is one which I think is an exceptional value, because it is free. I first heard of FIP while living in Switzerland. A friend of ours who … [Read more…]

Posted in: IT Failures, Modern Music, Politics, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: Brewster Kahle, ELECTRO, FIP, France, French, GROOVE, Internet Archive, jazz, MONDE, NOUVEAUTÉS, POP, Radio France, REGGE, ROCK, Spotify, streaming, www.fip.fr

1969 Greensboro uprising

July 18, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

While correcting the texts for the San Bernardino Sun, 24 May 1969 on the California Digital Newspaper Collection, I came across a couple of pages full of articles on the various incidents occurring at that time on college campuses across the country. There was mention of strikes at UC Riverside in solidarity with student strikers … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Politics, Racism Tagged: 1969, black militants, Black Power, Claude Barnes, Greensboro, Greensboro Association of Poor People (GAPP), James B. Dudley High School, National Guard, Nelson Johnson, Nixon, Nixon Administration, North Carolina A&T University, protective custody, Scott Hall, tear gas, Willie Grimes

the most influential racist you’ve never heard of

July 16, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In an obituary today in the NY Times describes the life of William H. Regnery II, “Buzzfeed called him ‘the most influential racist you’ve never heard of.’ ” It is interesting to me as I’m wondering of late who the people are who are bankrolling the alt-right, other than the Murdoch and Koch families. Here … [Read more…]

Posted in: Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: affirmative action, alt-right, Charles Martel Society, ethnostates, eugenics, Immigration, Koch, Murdoch, Obituary, Richard Spencer, The Occidental Quarterly, white identity, white supremacist, white supremacy, William H. Regnery II

Nazis, fear and violence: when reporting from Berlin was dangerous

July 14, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the series of Guardian Retrospectives, this popped up and due to my current reading in this era in Europe and Russia, it stands out as a good example of the times. Nazis, fear and violence: when reporting from Berlin was dangerous Read it and let me know if you think there is a parallel … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism Tagged: appeasement, Berlin, Brown Terror, European history, Foreign correspondent, Frederick Augustus Voigt, George Grosz, Germany, Gestapo, Guardian, Hitler, international correspondent, Jew baiting, Nazis, Third Reich

Everyone should read this The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta

July 5, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Everyone should read this From the Atlantic: The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled. By Ed Yong

Posted in: Faits Divers, Pandemic, Science Tagged: Alpha variant, AstraZeneca, B.1.1.7, B.1.617.2, breakthrough cases, Coronavirus, COVID-19, deadlier, Delta variant, Immunocompromised, Long-COVID, long-haulers, Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer-BioNTech, unvaccinated, Vaccines, variants

About Perma.cc

July 5, 2021 by sergneri 1 Comment

Perma.cc is a service that helps anyone who needs to cite to the web create links to their references that will never break. Perma.cc prevents link rot. What is Perma.cc? When a user creates a Perma.cc link, Perma.cc archives the referenced content and generates a link to an archived record of the page. Regardless of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Future of Work, IT Failures, Science, Thinking about Tagged: archives, Broken links, citations, Harvard Law School Library, Internet, link rot, Perma.cc, references
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