Uranium mining in Canada

Many pulp and paper mills in Canada are being bought up by an Indonesian company, funded by China, with a poor track record for labour and the environment

My local health food store, and my local second-hand store

I may live long enough to see the world population level off, but what will the world be like then?

The people of Tibiloi Georgia protest and the government backs down on laws targeting press and NGOs. Meanwhile in Israel widespread protests against government putting itself above Supreme Court.

brain fog, need fresh air

Good that there are people like this in the world
https://www.unhcr.ca/news/former-midwife-delivers-safety-and-hope-to-nicaraguan-refugee-women/

Moon dust is nasty stuff.
During the Apollo missions in the 1960s and early 1970s, astronauts tried unsuccessfully to remove the dust from their spacesuits with a brush.
The tiny particles got into engines, electronics and spacesuits where they destroyed seals, wearing them down.
Astronauts also suffered from "lunar hay fever," and researchers think longer exposure to the dust could cause lung damage similar to that of black lung disease.

A magazine article about an Iranian doctor who treated people injured in the protests. They couldn't go to hospitals because the police were stationed there to arrest and disappear people.

The largest overland oilsands tailings pond leak in Alberta's history just happened in February. The chief of the Athabasca Chipeweyan First Nation was furious and dismayed to learn the Imperial Oil tailings pond had been leaking at a lower level since May, and they had not been warned. The tailings ponds are an ongoing source of toxic pollution on their traditional lands.

Read most of the late Mike Millers's blog posts on open source GIS and geospatial data science. Very insightful. The part I don't know much about - What is the difference between a Geographic Informtation Systems (GIS) analyst and a Geospatial Data Scientist? Which am I? And how does the field of Earth Observation fit in?

Nice to feel some sunshine

Superficial but much needed house cleaning

Pick up a hold and print something for an annoying administrative task

Dr. Gary Dorrien on the history of the social gospel

Calvin Vollrath, master fiddler

The struggles of alternative, non-corporate owned media

Needed to

I hope I am helping the whole Google Earth Engine user community, by alerting them about a data issue I have just become aware of, trying to spread the word on social media

Exercise machines in park - 3 sets

copper french hair pins, bought on etsy
they come in lots of sizes, they're not cheap, and I hope I made the right decision for what I want them for