Friday Links!
Leading off this week, a magnificent profile: Munsch’s Monsters: Now that Canada’s most famous children’s author has confessed to being a booze- and coke-addicted obsessive-compulsive with bipolar disorder and suicidal tendencies, what else is there to say?
This is a thoughtful essay: Breaking the chain: The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution.
A nightmare: The H-2A Visa Trap.
It seems like this battle has been going on forever. I even remember a PR campaign centered around the phrase "the other white meat": Ecological Warfare: A swamp-rat slaughter on the bayou.
This is fantastic: God Dog: A visit to the dog show.
Isn't this what always happens? A Far-Right Faction Took Power in Odessa. Then It Had to Govern: After hard-liners purged the civil workforce, they found it difficult to provide standard city services. Eventually, voters revolted.
Meg sent in her traditional link: Fat Bear Week 2025. Also, here's a live bear cam: Brooks Falls Brown Bears. This is sensational: Sesame Street: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert.
From Wally, and I have a few in my head as well: Why random lines of video game dialogue get stuck in our heads. A generally excellent way to name things: Train named Ctrl Alt Deleaf to help blast billions of leaves from Great Britain’s tracks. These are always tremendous: The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners.
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