Monthly Archives: January 2021

The Illusion of Communication

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Image by Armin Schreijäg from Pixabay CC0 “The great enemy of communication is the illusion of it”, William Whyte (not GB Shaw) famously said. The functioning (and dysfunction) of our whole society rests on the myth that what the speaker says … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19 and Human Incapacity to Deal With Complex Predicaments

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Dave Pollard

This is the 15th in a series of articles on CoVid-19. I am not a medical expert, but have worked with epidemiologists and have some expertise in research, data analysis and statistics. I am producing these articles in the belief … Continue reading →

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Beauty, Sans Beholder

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Dave Pollard

actors clockwise from top left: Maude Adams 1897, Cléo de Mérode 1900, Ione Bright 1912, Anicée Alvina 1968, Nastassia Kinski 1974, Adèle Exarchopoulos 2013. First three colourized by Olga at Klimbim I‘ve often described myself as a hedonist — literally … Continue reading →

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Not So Extreme

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Dave Pollard

I was not surprised that the coronation of Biden went off peacefully. It was pretty clear that the gang of overpaid Trump PR people who orchestrated 98% of what happened in DC earlier this month concluded that, thanks to the … Continue reading →

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IFLS, the Sequel

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Dave Pollard

photo: Andy Bruckner, NOAA, public domain Since I’m still a bit of a blog whore and got lots of readers on my recent shark post, I can’t resist posting what I thought were the most astonishing scientific facts known (thus … Continue reading →

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The Road Not Taken

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Dave Pollard

The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: January 2021

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Dave Pollard

The Underhoused: Tent cities in (upper left) Vancouver BC, (upper right) Portland OR, and (lower right) new tents on a street in Nanaimo BC. The Vancouver site was bulldozed and converted to a playground. A new Portland tent city site … Continue reading →

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All the Things I Was Wrong About

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Caravaggio’s 1601 painting The Incredulity of St Thomas, based on the biblical story that gave rise to the expression “Doubting Thomas”. Image from wikipedia, in the public domain. One of the downsides of keeping a blog is that it leaves … Continue reading →

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Why Can’t We See?

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Dave Pollard

AP photo by John Minchillo It’s been fascinating to see the response of what passes for “progressives” in western nations to what has unfolded in the US over the past few days. Suddenly they’ve gone all Law & Order, wanting … Continue reading →

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Weather ‘Tis Nobler

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Dave Pollard

I‘ve had a personal weather station for about four years. Living on a small island with microclimates, where the weather doesn’t quite match that of any of the nearby places served by Environment Canada (shown as red dots above), I … Continue reading →

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