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Lawrence Winkler is a physician, traveler, and natural philosopher. His molecules have morphed from medicine to manuscript. He lives with Robyn on Vancouver Island and in New Zealand, tending their gardens and vineyards, and dreams.

Long Before Trees Overtook the Land

Earth was covered by giant mushrooms.




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Posted: March 20, 2023, 1:11 am

‘Widespread Violence’

South Africa braces for day of chaos as Marxist party demands ‘national shutdown.’




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Posted: March 20, 2023, 1:10 am

Thanks to Trudeau

Canada’s death-care system is top of the line.




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Posted: March 20, 2023, 1:06 am

The Unmaking of Russell Brand

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Posted: March 20, 2023, 1:04 am

The Mob is Coming For...

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Posted: March 20, 2023, 1:02 am

‘There Are Big Bucks in Medicine’

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Posted: March 20, 2023, 1:00 am

Pantry Porn?

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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:58 am

Why Slavery Reparations Are a Terrible Idea

San Francisco’s reparations plans are divisive, demeaning and insane.



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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:56 am

Doctors Warn

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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:53 am

Ancient Philosophers

How they imagined the end of the world.



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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:50 am

Oxfam’s New Guidebook to Inclusive Language

Don’t say mother or father as it could offend. Also bans the word headquarters as it smacks of colonialism.



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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:33 am

A Manly Divorce

Men rarely write about the end of their marriages. Our enduring ideas about gender explain this silence.




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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:28 am

America Is Showing Its Age

Institutional arthritis has ossified its politics.



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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:26 am

Ten Terrible Years of Pope Francis

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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:23 am

The Green Elites Are Living in Dreamland

Their ‘green industrial revolution’ is simply never going to happen.



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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:20 am

Victimhood Forever

California’s preposterous push to offer reparations to blacks—in a state where slavery never existed—will inflame racial tensions.



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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:18 am

The Lost Art of Academic Conversation

Faculty members no longer have time to indulge in the free play of ideas.



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Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:16 am

The Little-Known World of Caterpillars

An entomologist races to find them before they disappear.



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Posted: March 16, 2023, 11:18 pm

Orwell, Camus and Truth

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Posted: March 16, 2023, 11:16 pm

In Brazil

Terrifying plastic rocks on remote island.



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Posted: March 16, 2023, 12:23 am

Welcome to Britain

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Posted: March 16, 2023, 12:20 am

The World Has a Plastic Problem

New study into ‘plasticosis’ disease.



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Posted: March 16, 2023, 12:17 am

Heaps of Rubbish Draw Rats (And Tourists) in Paris

Ninth day of bin collection strike fuels stench around pension reform.



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Posted: March 15, 2023, 11:49 pm

Wagner’s Founder Evgeny Prigozhin

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Posted: March 15, 2023, 12:10 am

What’s A Life Worth Living?

For the ancients, it depends.



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Posted: March 13, 2023, 11:57 pm