December 10th, 2017 For your Bits this weekend we get started by taking a look at how Zanzibar is using drones to track the erosion of its coast and allow the government to better protect the island from climate change. Islands will be the first victims of rising sea levels and already face receding coastlines […]
Weekend Bits
Weekend Bits: Uncounted Deaths; Intelligence Betrayal; “Gray Area” Sexual Encounters
December 3rd, 2017 For your Bits this weekend we get started with an extensive investigation that undermines the American-led coalition’s claim that their air strike campaigns in Iraq are amongst the most precise in history resulting in minimal civilian casualties. On the ground reporting by the New York Times showed that coalition’s estimate of civilian […]
Weekend Bits: Putin’s Web; Mindfulness For Kids; America Going Crazy
November 26, 2017 For your Bits this weekend we get started by taking a look at the career of Christopher Steele and how it led him to unearth the many connections between U.S. President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In the world of spycraft, the credibility of any piece of intelligence depends on the […]
Weekend Bits: Intersex Rights; Winter Mindset; Atheist Muslims
November 19, 2017 For your Bits this weekend we get started with one of the newest fights for civil rights: the intersex rights movement. Intersex people are “born with some combination of chromosomes, hormones, gonads or genitals that defy social expectations of sex, including the expectation that sex is dichotomous.” That means that intersex people […]
Climate Apocalypse; Poor Neighborhoods; Weinstein’s Spies
November 12, 2017 For your Bits this weekend we start with an article about climate change and “it is, I promise, worse than you think.” The increase in sea level that accompanies climate change is just one aspect of the problem as the corresponding change in the chemical composition of the ocean and atmosphere will […]
Janitorial Salaries; Nuclear Missileers; and Microdosing
October 1, 2017 For your Bits this weekend we start by taking a look at pay and career possibilities of a janitor working at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, CA in 2017 and comparing it to what was available to someone in the same position at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY in the early 1980s; these […]
Polyamorous Lessons; Firms Versus Markets; Revisiting The Steele Report
September 24, 2017 For your Bits this weekend we start off by taking a look into the world of polyamory, a term that can refer to a number of different types of romantic and sexual relationships that involve more than two people. Not to be confused with “prairie-dress-clad fundamentalist polygamists,” polys, as they are sometimes […]