Collectively Evolving

By Don

Don
Stock Markets
The Next Leg Down: Another Massive Decline Is Coming
Seeking Alpha - James A. Kostohryz
My regular readers are aware that I have been warning of severe US and global recessions - and associated massive stock market declines – due to the …
1 day ago
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Health Care (Canada)
Canada turning to makeshift hospitals to house patients as COVID-19 pandemic stretches capacity | CBC News
CBC News - John Paul Tasker
Countries in Europe and states like New York have commandeered vast spaces normally reserved for conferences or sporting events to house the …
1 day ago
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Canadian News
Are Canadians ready for sustained sacrifices in the age of COVID-19? We're about to find out | CBC News
CBC News - Murray Brewster
It's the stuff our grandparents and great-grandparents talked about — the sacrifices of the war. Rationing, converting factories over from making …
2 days ago
Don
News
Off to the cafe: Sweden is outlier in virus restrictions
Associated Press - By DAVID KEYTON, Associated Press
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The streets of Stockholm are quiet but not deserted. People still sit at outdoor cafes in the center of Sweden's capital. Vendors still sell flowers. Teenagers still chat in groups in
1 day ago
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Tech Industry
Meet the renegade engineers on Slack trying fix the coronavirus supplies shortage
Vox - Rebecca Heilweil
When Charles He, a management and machine learning freelancer based in Victoria, British Columbia, realized the Covid-19 coronavirus was coming to the United States, he stocked up to prepare for months
5 days ago
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Kids
OMG, Justin Trudeau is running a country and solo parenting three kids at the same time
todaysparent.com - Kevin John Siazon
By now, many parents are learning just how hard it is to work from home while the kids are in the house, but hey, at least we don’t have the pressure …
March 23
Don
Hobby Lobby
Hobby Lobby Adopts the College Spring Breaker's Attitude Towards Coronavirus
Esquire - By Charles P. Pierce
The Greens are the people who run the Hobby Lobby empire and, after they won their great victory by which corporations can pretend to be religious in order to refuse to pay for birth control, the Greens
March 23
Don
Lifestyle (Canada)
“I’m 30 years old and I’m struggling to breathe”: A Torontonian with Covid-19 tells his story
torontolife.com - Toronto Life
“I’m having coughing fits so violent that I have to take two-hour naps to recover from them”The post “I’m 30 years old and I’m struggling to …
March 23
Don
Politics
Even coronavirus can’t stop Trump’s environmental rollbacks
grist.org - Emily Pontecorvo
On Thursday, political risk research and consulting firm the Eurasia Group released an updated version of its “Top Risks 2020” report to show how …
March 23
Don
Survivors of Coronavirus. Symptoms and recovery.
U.S. Politics
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart tells NBC coronavirus "hit me like a ton of bricks"
Axios - Rebecca Falconer
March 22
Don
Amazon is so generous: “as well as provide unlimited unpaid time off for all hourly employees through the month of March.” Seems that unpaid time off is my life, unpaid time off is what I do after wor …
Tech Industry
Read the memo Jeff Bezos sent to Amazon employees about coronavirus safety at warehouses
CNBC - Annie Palmer
March 22
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Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman offers blunt advice on the coronavirus economic fallout: ‘Don’t trust Trump’
Raw Story - Alex Henderson, AlterNet
Liberal economist and veteran New York Times economist Paul Krugman was a frequent source of wisdom during the Great Recession of the late 2000s and …
March 21
Don
Education
A poorer student falls behind in Hong Kong as coronavirus forces online learning
Reuters - Sarah Wu
HONG KONG (Reuters) - When Hong Kong student Wendy received a question from her geography teacher during an online class, she scrambled to unmute her mother’s cellphone, but the screen kept freezing. had
March 20
Don
Stephen Colbert
Colbert issues profound message amid Trump’s fat-fingered Twitter typos
Raw Story - Sarah K. Burris
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert continued his home-show, now in his third day of beard growth. Colbert first appeared in his suit for the Monday show …
March 19
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News
Disinformation and scapegoating: how America's far right is responding to coronavirus
The Guardian - Jason Wilson
The far right in America has received the coronavirus pandemic in much the same manner as any other event: with disinformation, conspiracies and scapegoating. Many seem to see it as a significant opportunity,
March 19
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Genealogy
Coronavirus kills 4 family members and sickens others after a dinner in New Jersey
CNN - By Theresa Waldrop and Melanie Schuman, CNN
(CNN) — A New Jersey woman and three of her children died from coronavirus, and two other relatives are in critical condition, a family member said. Another relative has the virus and is in stable condition,
March 19
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Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Paid Leave Vs. The Pandemic
NPR - Greg Rosalsky
Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. On Friday night, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that Congress had reached a bipartisan agreement on the
March 17
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News (U.S.)
‘Unfit’ Trump has become ‘irrelevant’ as the adults in the administration try to clean up his pandemic mess: columnist
Raw Story - Tom Boggioni
In a column for the Washington Post, conservative Jennifer Rubin applauded some members of Donald Trump’s administration for stepping into the breach …
March 15
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Politics
Jared Kushner revealed as brains behind Donald Trump's "half-baked" coronavirus response
Salon - Bob Brigham
The president's son-in-law and senior advisor was the focus of a hard-hitting Washington Post deep-dive titled, "Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for action: Inside the Trump administration's
March 14
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
National Geographic - Michael Greshko
'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries Months of testing confirm earlier suspicions that the fragments were made in modern times. What happens next? 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the of
March 13
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LGBTQ+ News
Apple, Google, and other big tech companies sign an open letter opposing LGBTQ discrimination bills
Input - Matthew Wille
More than 40 of the United States’ top employers, many of whom are big tech companies, have co-signed an open letter opposing legislation that …
March 12
Don
Ignore “remedies” and “cures.” They don’t exist.
Lifestyle
How to steer clear of coronavirus misinformation
Quartz - Hanna Kozlowska
March 11
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Students
Accused Cult Leader Threatened Ex Members After VICE Investigation
VICE - Sarah Berman
A YouTube spirituality school accused of exploiting its members has sent former students a letter threatening them with imminent lawsuits, police investigations, bankruptcy, jail time, and the publication
March 11
Don
Toronto
University of Toronto’s Russell Street is named after a slaveowner. The city wants to rename it after a renowned scientist
thestar.com - Francine Kopun
The name of one of the city’s most notorious slave owners is close to being wiped from the street running through the University of Toronto that …
March 9
Don
Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Patents are slowing the development of a coronavirus vaccine
Salon - Dean Baker
To the amazement of millions, President Trump continually outdoes himself when it comes to venality and foolishness. The latest milestone in this category was his recent effort to keep people in his administration
March 7
Don
Emotional Intelligence
People Who Use These 5 Toxic Phrases at Work Have Very Low Emotional Intelligence
Inc Magazine - Bill Murphy Jr.
People Who Use These 5 Toxic Phrases at Work Have Very Low Emotional Intelligence My favorite: "I do apologize..."
March 7
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On dit what? Bilinguals who borrow English words follow the language rules, says linguist
Language Learning
On dit what? Bilinguals who borrow English words follow the language rules, says linguist
ottawacitizen.com - Joanne Laucius Updated: March 6, 2020
March 6
Don
Pollution
What If Nestlé and Coke Had to Clean up Their Own Plastic Pollution?
ecowatch.com - By Julie Wilson
It's great when consumers take responsibility for using less plastic, and for cleaning up plastic waste in their communities. But wouldn't it be …
March 6
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Tech Industry
What the tech industry is doing to gen Z’s job prospects
i-D USA - James Greig
A new book by Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley, suggests that the utopian dreams of the tech industry might not be alle they’re cracked up to be. There’s research which suggests that the majority of Z
March 3