Monthly Archives: April 2020

Links of the Month — April 2020

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Too many links to wait ’til quarter’s end again, so I’m planning on reverting to a monthly schedule of the best recent links. Thanks to the many readers who point me to these, so I can almost keep up. Cartoon … Continue reading →

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Virtual Music

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Despite its serious and unresolved failings, YouTube has created an amazing and mostly-free platform for musicians of every stripe to share their recordings with the world, and to be discovered without the need to pander to the decrepit music publishing … Continue reading →

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Aerial photo of anti-Netanyahu protestors April 19, 2020 in Tel Aviv; photo by Tomer Appelbaum for Haaretz Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is … Continue reading →

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10 Surprising Things About CoVid-19 You Probably Didn’t Know

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Cumulative deaths by country, plotted against number of days since 10th death occurred; graphic by John Burn-Murdoch for UK FT. This is the fourth in a series of articles about the current pandemic, drawing on the best available science and … Continue reading →

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The Least We Can Do

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Dave Pollard

The latest from the notorious British street artist Banksy. Photo circulating on FB and elsewhere, source not cited. For non-Brits, NHS is their National Health Service. It appears the first wave of this virus has peaked in much of the … Continue reading →

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We Don’t Want to Kill You

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image from Wikipedia, public domain from Mikael Häggström (2014). New and missing: Ebola virus and Marburg virus (hemorrhagic fever), the new SARS CoV-2 (CoVid-19) virus, New Flaviviruses (yellow fever, dengue fever, West Nile, Zika virus), Human Monkeypox, and BSE/Mad Cow, … Continue reading →

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We Make Zero

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image from MaxPixel, public domain, CC0 “We Make Zero”. When I saw that headline on a recent CBC article about the economic impact of CoVid-19, I thought it might actually be a recognition of how very little of western economic … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19, Complexity & Collapse: The Long Game

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Dave Pollard

poster by Spanish cartoonist Miguel Brieva, reproduced in the Tyee Last week I summarized what I thought were the likely short-term developments with the virus, and thus far the models that have been developed have proved to be surprisingly accurate. … Continue reading →

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Signs of the times: Zoom Edition

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Dave Pollard

  Translation: We can hear you eating, slurping, whispering, muttering, talking with others in the room, and/or making other unpleasant and disruptive bodily sounds, even over the sound of the person speaking. We’re all getting used to using Zoom and … Continue reading →

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