Worth a Look: Wanderland – A Search for Magic in the Landscape by Jini Reddy

Wanderland is a book in which the heart leads, all things are possible and the Other, both wild and human, comes in from the cold. It is a paean to the joy of roaming, both figuratively and imaginatively, and to the joy of finding your place in the world. Throughout, she rejoices in the wildness …

State of the Nation: Is Coronavirus Designed to Cut Off Your Balls? Research Shows It Impacts Most on Testicles

BULLETIN: “testicular cells are the potential targets of 2019-nCoV. “due to the potential pathogenicity of the virus to testicular tissues, clinicians should pay attention to the risk of testicular lesions in patients during hospitalization and later clinical follow-up, especially the assessment and appropriate intervention in young patients’ fertility” This virus has the ability to be a population …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Manipulating Search…Again

Google: Making Friends Everywhere Would it surprise anyone if Google alters search results to favor itself? Nope! Reuters explains that Europe is once again fed up with Google’s shenanigans, so “Axel Springer Unit, Others Say Google Still Playing Unfairly, Want EU To Act.” Axel Springer owns the shopping comparison Web site Idealo and it has …

Stephen E. Arnold: Openness is Search — Does Money Displace Ethics & Efficacy?

A Call for Openness in Search “Opening Up Search Is an Ethical Imperative” presents an argument for opening up search. “Opening up” appears to mean that Google’s grip on ad supported search and retrieval is broken. The write up states: LONG POST EVERY WORD WORTH READING Advertisers go where the eyeballs are. Money can alter …