“The discovery of the structure of DNA in the early 1950s is one of the most riveting dramas in the history of science, crammed with brilliant research, naked ambition, intense rivalry and outright deception.” @carlzimmer.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

After Claudia Sheinbaum was assaulted this week, her opponents claimed she staged it. From their own experiences, the women I met know she didn’t have to. @monaeltahawy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

Single mothers in China find a new kind of partner – other single mothers

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given @ashifakassam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tesla shareholders approved a $1tn compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk on Thursday, awarding the world’s richest man what would be the largest corporate payout in history if he meets the goals necessary to receive it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I spent just over a week following Canada's prime minister around parts of Asia. I found exactly one pay phone -- and it's kind of a cheat at that. That photo has yet to be developed. But I did find this call box in the former city centre of Kuala Lumpur. (Leica M Monochrom, 50mm f1.2 Noctilux ASPH)

First Baptist Church in Chatham, Ontario. In 1858, the American abolitionist John Brown came here to plan a guerrilla war against slavery in the U.S. and to recruit people to his cause. Their unsuccessful attempt to seize an armory led to Brown's hanging. (Leica M Monochrom, 35mm f1.4 SummiluxASPH)

I know I don't have the Will to Power gene or whatever, but I will never understand *willingly* working until you are 87! I love my job but I would retire now if I had Pelosi Money!

This:

Thanks to @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and @motherjones.com for a fun interview!

My take: Zohran Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The real reason Mamdani has won is that he is the candidate who best understood what the people of New York want and need at this moment.” @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Results from the 14-year-long study showed cognitive decline was delayed by an average of three years in people who walked 3,000 to 5,000 steps a day, and by seven years in those who managed 5,000 to 7,000 steps daily. @iansample.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NHS hospitals to test AI tool that helps diagnose and treat prostate cancer

We absolutely have to expedite the process by which we build new housing,” he told me. “But we can’t do that unless we also address people’s immediate needs.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to Roge Karma www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

‘We must protect and we must understand’: using shipwrecks to rebuild fishing populations

Yotam Ottolenghi on the evolution of London restaurants

At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world? An interview with @margaretatwood.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

A Somali Hospital Closed After U.S. Aid Cuts. “After the Trump administration stopped funding a medical center for women and children, a determined group of health care workers refused to let it shutter.” @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

Mosquitoes found in a warming Iceland for the first time www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The two key coral species that form the Florida reef are now functionally extinct due to extreme ocean heat, scientists say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I spoke to Harrison Ford about the climate crisis and he said - - Trump's axing of climate policies “scares the shit out of me” - of Trump: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history” - that the world is "teetering on the edge" due to the loss of nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The US will have no high-level representatives at UN climate talks in Brazil next month, White House confirms www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And right on cue, the Murdoch media has joined forces with none other than disinformation artist Bjorn Lomborg himself to promote:

Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world @phoebeweston.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“.. ticket sales for the Kennedy Center’s three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been in years, according to a Washington Post analysis .. “.. Tens of thousands of seats have been left empty.” @washingtonpost.com @simsjames.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

People often ask historians whether Donald Trump’s nonsensical, unhinged, and cruel way of speaking to Americans has any precedent. But if U.S. history is a map, “we are off the grid, over a cliff, lost at sea without a compass,” Jill Lepore writes.

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases. Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Looking forward to reading @elizkolbert.bsky.social ‘s latest book, it’s launching in Canada on November 4, 2025

The turbulence was so great the hurricane hunter had to turn back. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Superb cover! Looking forward to reading your book Elizabeth.

Lovely to receive the first copies of my new book, "Life on a Little-Known Planet." Thanks to www.evangaffneydesign.com for the great cover design.

WHO's advice needs to change. Excellent @thewhn.bsky.social letter. Please sign & share by 31 October (anyone can sign) @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @kityates.bsky.social @tryangregory.bsky.social @njbbari3.bsky.social @drjoepajak.bsky.social

EU carmakers ‘days away’ from factories halting work in chip war with China

Can bowhead whales with their 200-year lifespan help us to slow ageing?

He is tech billionaire and major landowner... not a vaccines expert or a climate scientist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Climate emergency: Rising heat kills one person every minute worldwide, major study reveals via @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is just mind-bendingly wrong-headed. ‘Let’s just adapt, tech will save us’ has always been a reckless strategy, but as evidence mounts that natural carbon sinks are failing it really does start to sink into a form of climate denialism. www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...

What could be better than meeting @margaretatwood.bsky.social in person? From the twinkle in her eyes, to her ready wit, and excellence as one of the finest writers of the world, and, a Canadian! Kudos to her for founding @PENCanada along with her co-founders.

"If not aunt, why aunt shaped" - @whaler.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure listening to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and @maddow.msnbc.com in conversation with @nahlahayed.bsky.social at the Korner Hall in Toronto. For those who haven’t read books by Rebecca or Rachel grab a copy…

Hurricane Melissa continues to set records, with the lowest barometric pressure ever observed this late in the season in the Atlantic, 906 millibars. The picture below is of its fearsome eye yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...

Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change

The weight-loss drug semaglutide cuts the risk of heart attack or stroke regardless of how many kilograms people lose, the largest study of its kind has found. @andrewgregory.com www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

NEW. In my OUR LAND newsletter, I report on how Bari Weiss, CBS News, Paramount Skydance, and artificial intelligence make for a very troubling mix. Give it a read and tell me what you think. link.motherjones.com/public/42172... Sign up for a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.