Dan Moutal is the co-founder of Planet3.0, a photographer, and blogger trying to find solutions to the most complex and pressing problems we have ever faced.
On May 16th 2017, I had my 25th and final radiation treatment.
I am not certain if it was the radiation, the anti-anxiety medication which causes drowsiness, or the lack of sleep caused by the anxiety that the anti-anxiety medication…
John Oliver gives a great summary of why Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement makes absolutely no sense
Or as David Roberts puts it:
An agreement cannot be both nonbinding and draconian (Spoiler: Paris is the former)
Early…
It is not something to say I chose not to believe e-mc2; YOU DONT HAVE THAT OPTION!
When you have an established scientific emergent truth, it is true whether or not you belive in it and the sooner you understand…
The hope is that the radiation will stop the growth of my tumour. It wont’t, however, remove it. The success rate is roughly equivalent of the success rate of surgery (90%), and there is a greater chance of not loosing…
Hans Rosling, one of the most enlightening science communicators, passed away last week.
It was his first Ted talk that thrust renowned Swedish academic Hans Rosling into the international spotlight in 2006, billed as the man in whose hands data…
The greatest story ever told ended today:
Stuart McLean, the host of CBC Radio’s The Vinyl Café and an award-winning humorist, has died at age 68 after a battle with melanoma.
McLean’s trademark blend of storytelling — part nostalgia, part…
I have a tumour; the good news is that the doctors believe it is benign. The bad news is that while it may be non-malignant it definitely isn’t benign (at least not by any reasonable definition of benign).
I have…
This is exceedingly good news! Yes these elder statesmen Republicans aren’t elected members of the government, and yes it will be difficult to convince elected Republicans of the importance of climate change, but this is what a first step looks…
After the horrific events at the Mosque in Quebec it is worth remembering that hatred doesn’t stop at the border.
The suspect in the deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque was known in the city’s activist circles as an…
Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United…
For a while now, those who deny climate change (like the majority of elected Republican officials) have complained that climate science has been politicized and therefore cannot be trusted. The evidence for this has always fallen apart under the most…
The opponents of the Keystone XL and other pipelines have to keep on winning, forever, while those trying to build pipelines, or similar projects, only have to win once
I said those words 4 years ago, and sadly it looks…
This isn’t a 2ºC or bust fight. It’s a fight to limit consequences. It’s a fight for every 1/10 of a degree. If we fail to hold to 2ºC, we have to fight for 2.1º; failing that, we battle on…
The end of the world as we know it
The Trump victory in the US presidential election is a victory for incoherence (also racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and denialism). During the campaign Trump never once articulated a coherent set of policies,…
Words that feel especially poignant right now.
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich…
John Oliver explains it nicely, the instead of the imaginary TODD conference, I recommend the very real Bad ad Hoc Hypotheses Festival BAHfest!
Or If you prefer the news cycle in comic format PhD Comics has you covered:…
20 Years ago John Perry Barlow published the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace:
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future,…
Now it is just more of the same, regardless of who ultimately wins:
Lessig quits presidency bid, blames political system he wanted to change
See this for a good, succinct, explanation of the problem Lessig is trying to solve…
If we are going to survive this century, we need to move away from decision-based evidence-making and truly make evidence-based decisions. Public access to publicly funded science would help ensure that the government relies on the facts, not on ideology.…
