Severance, the extremely popular Apple TV+ series about office workers who undergo brain surgery so that their home selves have no knowledge or memory of their working selves, and vice…
Day: March 20, 2025
Compassion saves Lily and her puppies
When Lily arrived at the Ontario SPCA Sudbury & District Animal Centre with her eight puppies, one thing was clear: she had given everything for them. The puppies, though tiny,…
Dr. Francis Collins Led the NIH. Now, He Fears for the Future of Science
Dr. Francis Collins led the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, under three presidents—including Trump during his first term. He left that post…
They Hated Health Insurance. So They Started Paying For Each Other’s Care.
When Geoff Perlman’s 20-year-old son broke his arm in December 2022, the bill was paid by strangers who chipped in to cover the costs. And rather than paying a monthly…
‘Dump the bill, not the Skate’: Albanese goes all out for wildlife extinction
SYDNEY, 20 MARCH 2025 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has slammed the Albanese Government for seeking to weaken Australia’s national nature laws in order to prop up polluting and environmentally harmful…
Aneesh Chopra talks Medicare Advantage
Aneesh Chopra (these days at Arcadia) and Matthew Holt got into a discussion of how Medicare Advantage is doing. Working with APG (America’s Physician Groups), his company Arcadia found that…
The Trump climate story is boring — except this part
Canary Media’s ” Eating the Earth ” column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. As a journalist who spent three decades reporting…
Gutting clean energy incentives would drive up electric bills
The Trump administration insists that renewables are making energy more expensive and that more fossil-fueled power will reduce utility bills. But those claims are false — and if congressional Republicans…
‘New evidence has emerged’: Greenpeace requests revision of North West Shelf assessment criteria
PERTH, 20 MARCH 2025 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has asked Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to reconsider the criteria used to assess Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension because significant new impacts…
“A blatant injustice”: Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s response to Energy Transfer lawsuit
In response to the verdict in Energy Transfer’s suit against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace US entities, the following lines can be attributed to Greenpeace Australia Pacific General Counsel Katrina Bullock:…