The Norwegian Consumer Council made this lovely short video about enshittifcation, the practice of making products and services crappier than they should or need be. It’s called “The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator” and also called “Killing Things”. Update: Thanks to Lauren Maurer for alerting us to a predecessor video called “A Day in […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Pet contributions — … Brad D. Lee of the University of Kentucky will present his views on the topic “Companion canine nutrient contributions to peri-urban environments“ … Mussel-bound death — … “Dramatic is the fate of a […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has six segments. Here are bits of each of them: Sweet or not, the end — Almost everyone who gets old dies. In a gross way, that brief sentence could sum up a Dutch/Danish/British study called “Use of sugar in coffee and tea and long-term risk of […]
A tragic interplay of beauty and death led two medical professionals to write this alert for their peers: “Brazilian Butt Lift-Associated Mortality: The South Florida Experience,” Pat Pazmiño [pictured here] and Onelio Garcia, Jr., Aesthetic Surgery Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, February 2023, pp. 162–178. The authors report: Although BBL-related morbidity is generally associated with […]