Category: 2020
Slaughtering the planet
Animal agriculture is a bigger driver of climate change than fossil fuels. Published in the Bangkok Post on September 21, 2020.
How has Thailand kept the lid on Covid?
A panel of experts discusses how Thailand has avoided the scourge that has upended much of the world.
Five corona-themed song parodies to cure your quarantine blues
What do you get when you combine a billion people under coronavirus lockdown with an unprecedented range of cheap or free software tools to make and record music, and shoot and edit video? You get a welcome relief from the dismal drumbeat of deaths and infections with an epidemic of hilarious and quite brilliant coronavirus-themed […]
Gallery: Typhoon batters Boracay
On Christmas Day, 2019, Typhoon Phanfone pummelled the Philippines and left a trail of destruction across the resort island of Boracay. I arrived the following day to witness a scene of devastation. Read article
Typhoon dramatizes our machine-learned helplessness
A collapsed building is seen on the Boracay Mount Luho Road in the wake of Typhoon Phanfone, on Boracay, Aklan, Philippines, on Dec 26, 2019. (Photo: Dave Kendall) In psychology, “learned helplessness” is the result of repeated exposure to an aversive event, rendering a person unable to control their environment even when the tools are […]