The Canadian government has banned government-funded weather forecasters from discussing global heating.

That government is denialist and in thrall to the fossil fuel companies.

The Mormon church is moving to excommunicate dissidents.

I cannot criticize a group which stands for a position on some question for expelling members that disagree with that position. That's a separate question from whether I criticize the position itself.

US citizens: Call on the US government to convert its own buildings to solar power.

An Umbrella in the Hurricane: Apple Limits Mobile Device Location Tracking.

The rate of violence in US schools has been declining for 20 years, following the decrease in lead in gasoline.

The multiple killings every week or two are shocking, but don't amount to a lot of victims compared with the other sorts of violence among teenagers, and that has been going down in the US.

Even small amounts of lead make children less intelligent. That leads them to be violent, because sometimes they can't see a better response. But lead-induced stupidity would affect all sorts of decisions, including voting. I wonder if the effects of lead poisoning lead people to believe right-wing "solutions", such as Reagan's "trickle-down", and the idea that cities ought to lure businesses away from other cities by offering them subsidies.