- 2007 IPCC climate model predictions compared to what actually happened. I hope the discrepancy will be enlightening.
- In response to food safety scares, the Chinese Health Ministry has announced measures to combat and contain ‘the few media organizations that are deliberately misleading the public.’”
- Dangerous hospitals. “Only 14 percent of physicians favored making hospital errors public.”
- Track your breath.
Thanks to Dennis Mangan.
An assorted link: a blind man who “sees” through echo-location https://www.mensjournal.com/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-to-see
Kish is seeking — despite a lack of support from every mainstream blind organization in America — nothing less than a profound reordering of the way the world views blind people, and the way blind people view the world. He’s tired of being told that the blind are best served by staying close to home, sticking only to memorized routes, and depending on the unreliable benevolence of the sighted to do anything beyond the most routine of tasks.
Kish and a handful of coworkers run a nonprofit organization called World Access for the Blind, headquartered in Kish’s home. World Access offers training on how to gracefully interact with one’s environment, using echolocation as a primary tool. So far, in the decade it has existed, the organization has introduced more than 500 students to echolocation. Kish is not the first blind person to use echolocation, but he’s the only one to meticulously document it, to break it down into its component parts, and to figure out how to teach it.