Why You Shouldn’t Snuggle with Your Pooch in Bed (Time)
More than half of all US pet owners sleep with their pets. Health risk is relatively small.
For Many Species, No Escape as Temperature Rises (NYT)
Over the next 100 years, 20 to 30 percent of species could be lost if the temperature rises between 3.6 and 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit. More than that and the loss could be 50 percent.
The ominous rise of amateur ornithology (Slate)
Bird watching became popular in the nuclear era, a response to fear of an ecological apocalypse. “Birding is a steam valve for anxiety about nuclear-age strength and habits.” Its reemergence today is an indicator of quiet alarm.
We, Robots (NYT)
Review of Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Is Pink Necessary? (NYT)
Review of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Black market steals half a million pollution permits (New Scientist)
European Union Allowances stolen from Czech national carbon registry. Would allow half a million tons of carbon pollution. Isn’t climate control is hard enough without this?
Power and the Left (American Scene)
Response to Freddie’s “the blind spot.” Comment: “The American working class matters and … the decline in their compensation and quality of job is a loss of human welfare that absolutely deserves to be taken seriously.”
Image: The Celebrity Pup
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