By Don Pelton Board Member Wolf Creek Community Alliance We’re working on a project to gather together some of the more beautiful photos taken by those of us who love Wolf Creek, to create a collection that we may use for a book, and for other educational displays. Plants and native (non-human) critters of…
Don Pelton As someone who is a member of at least four demographic groups associated with a higher risk of death from Corona virus, I’m distressed to live in the least vaccine-compliant county in California. The scientific understanding of the Corona virus is changing rapidly, and the degree of vaccine compliance required to achieve…
Liangfang Zhang, University of California San Diego The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Researchers around the world are working frantically to develop COVID-19 vaccines meant to target and attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Researchers in my nanoengineering lab are taking a different approach toward stopping SARS-CoV-2. Instead…
This interview with Max Blumenthal (author of “The Management of Savagery“) is well worth hearing in its entirety in Aaron Maté’s “Push Back” podcast, here: “US claim of ‘Russian Bounty’ plot in Afghanistan is dubious and dangerous” (Youtube) In the meantime, here are some choice quotes: AARON MATÉ: What do you make of the…
Fear of Falling Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State? By Rebecca Gordon Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com You know that feeling when you trip on the street and instantly sense that you’re about to crash hard and there’s no way to prevent it? As gravity has its way with you, all you…