[NOTE: Despite the sponsor’s upbeat words, attendance at this onetime mega-conference will be down 70% from its peak in 2000. For Quakers, the slide is quite similar to the 80% drop (from almost 2000 in 2000 to 440) in registrations for the 2022 FGC summer Gathering. For FGC, the decline for ed a shift from an … Continue reading Once Huge Evangelical Mission Conference Faces Major Shrinkage
Labor action on both sides of the Atlantic CNBC — DEC 16 2022 Amazon workers will go on formal strike for the first time in the UK Ryan Browne KEY POINTS Employees at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse in central England voted Friday to go on strike. It will be the first legally mandated strike to take … Continue reading Breaking: Amazon & Starbucks Workers To Strike in the U. K. & U. S.
The Pandemic isn’t over yet . .. But there are Monsters in the Mirror! NFT = No Future (for) T- – – – “It’s Biden— he’s got Some GOOD News, and Some . . . But, Dear, Santa’s thinking about it; SOMEbody has to . . . You’re right, Marge — no sense of humor … Continue reading A Trove of Crypto-NFT Cartoons! Funny — or Double Your Money Back!
Praise the Lord & Pass the Tater-Tots . . . The Guardian The big idea: has organic food passed its sell-by date? Touted as a cure for environmental and physical ills, the organic movement is falling short of high expectations Julian Baggini — 12 December 2022 After 10 years of slow but steady growth, sales of … Continue reading Is Organic Food Better? Skepticism Is Growing
‘What’s not to like about nuclear fusion? Only the delivery date’ Gwynne Dyer · Columnist – December 15, 2022 Nuclear fusion, the holy grail that would finally end all the world’s energy problems, has been receding into the future at the rate of about one year per year all my adult life — it was … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Nuclear Fusion Can Save Us— If it Arrives In Time