Brotherless Night – Go Read
I grew up in Chennai in the 80s and got to witness the Sri Lankan civil war from just across the border. I read about it mostly from the Indian…
My kid loves statistics and 15 minute cities
We have started this simple diary where my 7 yo tracks each of her trips and categorizes them as car or not car. I find the analog simplicity of this…
Choices for 2024
When your phone does a thing I’m not much of a resolver, resolutioner, whatever the word may be. But my phone did show me these very interesting choices of app…
Big Wool and Fast Fashion
Cute sheep or not, factory farming is always impactful According to one analysis of wool production in Australia, by far the world’s top exporter, the wool required to make one knit…
Leftover milk solids chocolate balls
When you make ghee, and are careful enough not to burn the batch, the milk solids that are filtered out are great to use up. This site has a bunch…
Roasted rutabagas are awesome!
This week unlike other weeks, I picked up that rutabaga I usually avoid at the grocery store and it paid off 🙂 It’s so good! And the right amount of…
Why Deport Jaskirat Singh Sidhu?
A federal judge has dismissed applications from the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan and was fighting deportation back to India. Source: Federal judge…
American Caste and ’90s flashbacks
Always like when I’m validated for something I said 25 years back Wilkerson rigorously defines eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, heredity, and dehumanization. She…
To Read! Dark PR by Grant Ennis
In his new book, Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment, Grant Ennis — a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia — identifies the “nine…
Stuff I read 04-Sep-2023
An occasional roundup of news I found interesting, with even less occasional commentary! How a mere 12% of Americans eat half the nation’s beef, creating significant health and environmental impacts…
How BC Could Tax Soaring Property Values for the Public Good | The Tyee
The vast majority of B.C.’s residential property wealth — $1.5 trillion — is in the value of the land rather than in the buildings on it. Unlike the value created by…
Back to School and Covid
Will Back-to-School COVID Crush Families? BC’s status quo approach is not good enough, says a grassroots organization of doctors and teachers. With new variants of covid hitting hard, we’re all…
Municipal election recommendations for #YYJ
I live in a family of three with a young kid, downtown adjacent, in a condo. Here are my voting recommendations.
Adventures with Red River : Part I
Red River, so polarizing Anyone want? I don’t think this household is ever going to consume. About 80% of original capacity I posted this on social media last week and…
Regulating fake video
Deep fakes, or the ability to manipulate people’s actions in videos, were in the news recently. Macleans wrote a very concerned article December of 2018. This will be the year…
The many boats of climate change
Their (the IPCC’s) dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C.Keeping to the preferred target of 1.5C…
My picks for city of Victoria’s Mayor and Council
From housing and affordability, transportation, childcare, and budget priorities, here is how I’m voting on October 20th in the Victoria election for mayor and council…
Bharat’s pocket scraps you own a pipeline! edition
Ottawa fails to find new buyer for Trans Mountain pipeline by deadline The federal government is set to become the official owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after failing…
Bharat’s pocket scraps – Making room edition
Vancouver makes room for more people, charities get political, and more…
Bharat’s Pocketscraps NUMTOTS edition
Scraps are back after a while, read on
Let all residents vote in Canada
This year, I will be asking Victoria’s municipal election candidates where they stand on letting permanent residents vote in our elections. Join me!
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jeans, not Genes!
Where we wade into the “new” controversy on genetics and race, and talk about e-cigarettes, food and more
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jagmeetophobia TV facebook and more
Canadian media is still hung up in the 1980s on Sikhs, is facebook really to blame for polarization, and more!
Pocket Scraps – Jan and Feb 2018
Convergent evolution, cat mass spectrometers, love jihad and more!