[NEWS] Five science links: global warming, sociology, basic income

[rfmcdonald]

• The National Observer notes how, with global warming, summer conditions are being "stuck", that we are getting extended heat waves and bigger floods.


• Justin Fox at Bloomberg View calls for more sociologists to make more contributions to a field of economics that, really, needs their input.


• James Mulvale at The Conversation explains why the cancellation in Ontario of the basic income project was not just a tragedy for human but for science.


• The smoke for massive wildfires in western Canada has at least kept temperatures cooler for farmers in Alberta. The Toronto Star reports.


• This Jacobin Magazine article, arguing self-employment under neoliberalism encourages people to be tough to themselves, feels uncomfortably right. Thoughts?