Monthly Archives: June 2021

What We Think We Know, and Who We Think We Love

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Dave Pollard

image from piqsels, CC0 The human brain is an amazing instrument. Brains didn’t evolve to be the “command centre” of the body. Rather, they evolved as a “feature detection system“, a “lookout” for the benefit of the 30 trillion cells … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: June 2021

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Dave Pollard

A very early cartoon from Poorly Drawn Lines Consistent with my rewrite of my latest CoVid-19 article, I’m going to try to make my LOTM write-ups more factual and less editorial, or at least less judgemental. I’m also merging the … Continue reading →

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Seventy

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Old friends | Sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes | On the high shoes | Of the old friends Old friends | Winter companions the old men Lost … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19: Light at the End of the Tunnel

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Note: Michael Dowd’s comment on the original version of this article has prompted me to “mark up” the article to remove judgements and stick to what we know. I’ve tried to do that, below, with the additions/changes noted in a … Continue reading →

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Never Felt Safe

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Dave Pollard

I‘ve been simultaneously reading two books of essays, largely autobiographical, whose authors’ courage at admitting the truth about themselves is disarming, even startling. Melissa Faliveno’s Tomboyland describes growing up in rural Wisconsin and evolving as a queer feminist; here are … Continue reading →

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Switching from Feedburner to Follow.It

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Google is abandoning its free RSS-to-email service Feedburner (that I’ve used for a decade) in two weeks. My brother Alan (thank you!) has arranged to transition my blog’s subscription service to Follow.It and that transition starts today. If you’re an … Continue reading →

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Bowen Birds

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Dave Pollard

A few recent photos I’ve taken on Bowen: Great blue herons, crows, mergansers and geese. The 6th photo was a battle royal between a crow and a really pissed off crab; the crow won. The final photo is of course … Continue reading →

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Biomimicry

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Dave Pollard

This is a brief introduction to the subject of biomimicry, a concept developed by Janine Benyus twenty years ago. I’m using it to prompt an upcoming discussion by a Teal business group on how self-managed businesses might draw on natural … Continue reading →

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Homeless

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Greater Vancouver average housing prices per Real Estate Board. Note that an “average” $1.8M house requires a $400k down payment and a qualifying annual income of at least $400k, even at today’s low 2.25% mortgage interest rates. Average prices in … Continue reading →

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Ten Ways the MSM Need to Clean Up Their Act

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Dave Pollard

image of NYT 1942 by janeb13  CC0 from Pixabay Scandals. Getting caught repeating disinformation. Harbouring hate-mongers. Forced retractions. Using unreliable sources. Publishing editorials as if they were news. It’s no wonder the reputation of the so-called mainstream media is in … Continue reading →

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