U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did.

I’m not a Christian. But I believe Pope Francis was the most badass Pope in history. He refused to reduce God to a magician. Fought climate collapse. And preached like he time-traveled from 2140. Here are 9 reasons why he was lightyears ahead of his time: 🧵

I haven't been catholic for a long time, but Pope Francis is the first pope in my lifetime that I actually admired.

Here's a radical idea that I'm sure will piss some people off. But I'm floating it here for reactions. Perhaps we should raise the voting age to 25. Perhaps people without a fully developed preftrontal cortex shouldn't be making such important decisions. politico.com/news/magazine/…

This is practically the definition of chutzpah: Introduce a product that will probably harm children with the sales pitch that it reduces the harm to children that your last product caused.

The vast majority of people infected in the Ontario measles outbreak are unvaccinated.

Angela Duckworth gives a brilliant graduation speech at Bates: "Where you physically place your phone may be one of the most consequential decisions you make." Guard your attention. Not with willpower, but situation modification: Angela Duckworth youtube.com/watch?v=HxVsaN…

Because I feel like triggering the trolls today, I want to remind everyone that Canadians have received over ONE HUNDRED MILLION COVID vaccine doses. Only 0.056% resulted in an adverse event report. Four deaths resulted, but ZERO were due to mRNA. health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vacci…

PP says he doesn’t like government decrees like EV mandates. I agree. But there was a market-based alternative called carbon pricing, and he screamed and whined about it until it got cancelled. So, Pierre, you don’t like regulations and you don’t like markets either. What’s left?

Provincial officials have warned Doug Ford's environment minister that the province is not currently on track to meet the government’s own climate change emissions targets for 2030. Scoop from my colleague ⁦Shawn Jeffords⁩ #onpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

The lack of intellectual humility in Kennedy is troubling. He's a fool. And the underlying issue is the information ecosystem that has evolved that manufactures fools like Kennedy.

I've been telling students this forever. Learning to write in a structured way helps you learn to think in a structured way. It's an essential part of education.

Hoping to see colleagues and friends at CSEE next week in Sherbrooke. Come see my talk, which features the most interesting results I've found yet in my career (of >20 years). How's that for a tantalizing plant-ecology-related tease?

Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.

The avg young person today is on course to spend 25 years of their life on their phone. (Plus more on other screens). Most of them don't want to live this way, but feel trapped. How about we delay giving smartphones and tablets till at least 14? thetimes.com/uk/technology-…

1.5 million people observed. 29 possible side effects. 0 increased risk. That’s the latest from Denmark 🇩🇰. No conspiracy. No chaos. Just data. mRNA vaccines are safe. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

It’s become one of those regimes

Explaining gerrymandering More of a public service announcement than an editorial cartoon.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

There's a major essay on what teens think about social media, in Australian. Its so important that they took down the paywall for a while: theaustralian.com.au/weekend-austra… So many powerful quotes, this one stunned me: