After hearing a particular bird call for two years, in the conservation area behind us, I tracked it gown and produced this article in the process: Birds in Our Yard. Oh, it was a red-bellied woodpecker. I have done some detailed background accumulation and analysis of studies and reports indicating Read more
This is not a topic that I have researched but I do look at studies if they comes my way. None have until recently when I received the following paper by van den Berg et al[1]. This was a very large study of students and staff in Massachusetts public schools Read more
I was surprised to find out that my last post was over a month ago. So what’s new? A few days ago I lost a dear friend. It was his time. The last few months I have spent much more time in prayer, meditation and reflection. I have been confounded Read more
There is a bit of new material integrated into the site. You might find some comments on lock-downs that I added in Dissent and the COVID-19 Hoax. I added a new page ‘The Surveillance State‘. It has a short essay by Michael Snyder that is worth the read. You’ll likely Read more
If you’re not up on the synthetic meat industry meant to replace animal protein sources, eliminating the beef and swine industries along with the farmers, I’ve updated that section of Control of the Food Supply. Narratives are still an active topic: The Role of Narratives. I added a section on Read more
True North had an excellent panel discussion on censorship in social media. The video is below. Bruce Pardy, a Queens University law professor has the most accurate assessment of the situation. If you just want the key segments with Bruce, these start at 21:54, 37:53, and 1:12:12 for the quotes Read more
Note: this is archival material. You may want to skip this post. I Wrote a blog for 8 years before I blew it up. In the latter part of this period I started a new format called ‘Bits and Pieces’. It was news aggregation with commentary. I decided to review Read more
Over the last few days I have been cleaning up and catching up. I’m trying to finish writing projects that have been on the back burner. Here’s one: The Catholic Church. I began it a couple of months ago. I read Laudato Si’ and annotated it. When I finally came Read more
This was published by mistake and is unfinished. Please ignore The following graph shows the daily new cases of COVID-19 in Ontario by date (horizontal axis). The numbers on the axis correspond to dates going from December 31 to November 23, left to right. The vertical axis are the numbers Read more
Either articles that or new or have larger updates include: Media Platforms. I’m starting to review the more popular ones, a project that will last a week or two. I’m pondering a communicable strategy to replace the MSSM (mainstream social media) which have moved to control public discourse and thinking Read more