Daniel D. Reidpath
@dreidpath.bsky.social
Global Health/Health Systems Researcher • Epidemiologist • Equity Advocate https://www.papyruswalk.com/
The Odyssey is most moving when it's read in one 14 hour sitting in Homeric Greek. There is also a fantastic version with sock puppets. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
I thought Nolan’s Odyssey was an epic bore. If you want Greek myths brought to life, try the thrill of opera!
Composers from Purcell to Birtwistle have created passionate dramas inspired by ancient Greek stories – and none of them require you to sit through three hours of solemn spectacle without an interval
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This is a PMNCH podcast interview with Sofia Gruskin and me on contemporary equity issues in maternal and child health. @khosla.bsky.social did a great job of pulling the threads together. youtu.be/8izCCyvfA3o
[Episode 7] PMNCH Touchpoint - Seeing What We've Been Missing: Inequities and the Future of MNCH
YouTube video by PMNCH
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The US Ambassador is right, that the US is a beacon for the world. A warning beacon. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US diplomats stage UN walkout after France criticizes human rights record under Trump
France had also intervened after Trump administration had opposed the reappointment of UN human rights chief
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This is a false tradeoff. CO2 emission reduction has many levers. Animal welfare does not have to be one of them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
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"We are experiencing exactly what the climate models in the 1990s said we should experience now” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Scorching US heatwave to hit 70 million people with third ‘heat dome’ in month
Temperatures of 95-105F (35-40C) are expected, spanning Gulf of Mexico coast to the Great Plains and the midwest
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Reckless provocation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Chinese warship holds live-fire drills inside Japan’s economic waters for first time
Exercise took place about 180km from Okinotori, Japan’s southernmost island, and comes as Chinese and Philippine sailors clashed in the South China Sea
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I seem to have forgotten the MwaHaHa award for cartoonesque bad guys who have a complete disregard for the rights and welfare of their people. www.dw.com/en/friedrich...
Germany's Merz receives death threat from Iranian newspaper
In retaliation for Khamenei's death, the Tehran daily listed 13 world leaders, including Merz, as targets. German politicians voiced concern.
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While the Nobel Prize committee was unable to offer Donald Trump the award he most coverts, IPA (the International Pirates Association) will award him the Plucked Parrot for unfettered criminality and boundless narcissism. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
US attacks oil tanker in strait of Hormuz as strikes reported in Tehran
US disables unladen oil tanker using Hellfire missiles in strait of Hormuz amid concerns strikes could spiral into open conflict
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The US is not a member of the ICC but it wants to destroy it. Hmmmm.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court
Trump’s secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations
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There is no rational world in which the following statement should not cause revulsion, outrage, and a massive tax bill: "Person X is a trillionaire". Musk is worth more than 126 Million median asset holders. But he really isn't, is he? www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX shares jump on stock market debut – business live
The record-breaking IPO valued Musk’s company at $1.77tn after raising $75bn through a share offering
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This piece in the South China Morning Post makes one appreciate academic freedom. "The Central Party School is not just any training site for Chinese officials, but part of a nationwide system that Xi considers key to the ideological purity of the party..."
The US has lost its capacity to negotiate. Its current version of statecraft is bullying, threats, violence, and picking up the bat and ball and running home. Consequences be damned! It will take the State Department years to relearn international diplomacy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
US threatens to reconsider role in Bosnia and Herzegovina amid rift with Europe
US embassy in Sarajevo made threat after European states refused to back its preferred High Representative candidate
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Academic freedom. I vaguely remember that idea. It sounds very last century. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians
School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor put under investigation after a student complained about a case study
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553 days ago an arrest warrant was issued by the International Criminal Court for Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes. He continues.... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal
Speaking in West Bank settlement, Israeli PM, who is fighting for political survival before elections, says ‘we are squeezing Hamas’
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"Christian Organization Forced to Add African Panelists to Nairobi Event" (Kenya Times 12 May 2026) I would think a panel composed entirely of White Men is the perfect vehicle to deliver unhelpful, regressive views to the continent of Africa. Easy to dismiss. thekenyatimes.com/latest-kenya...
Tony Blair is an unindicted war criminal. He exists, as Johnathon Porritt wrote, to provide comfort to future war criminals that it’s still possible, as a former war criminal, to be accepted in polite society. Why would one care what Tony Blair has to say? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump
In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election
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This is a terrible decision by the Italian courts. UNGA Resolution 64/292, explicitly acknowledged access to safe and clean drinking water as a human right. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel
Woman argued water was a universal human right but court found no law in Italy obliged hoteliers to serve it from taps
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"Jack Clark (from Anthropic) said he wanted to encourage humanity to prepare for a technology that would ‘soon be more capable than all of us collectively’." I remember that movie and it really didn't end well for us. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, says Anthropic co-founder
Jack Clark describes ‘vertiginous sense of progress’ and ‘profound changes’ to society alongside risks of technology
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This is excellent!!! The vote was 141 to 8 Here are the 8: US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, Iran, Yemen, Liberia, Belarus. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution
The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure
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"What's good for the goose is good for the..." Sorry, wrong one. "Heads I win. Tails you lose" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...
Supreme Court Rejects Virginia Democrats’ Effort to Reinstate New Voting Map
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I forget the law in Israel. Remind me. Who can you assault with impunity? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Israeli settler to go on trial over attack on French nun in Jerusalem
Yona Simcha Schreiber from settlement in West Bank faces charge of assault motivated by hostility towards religious group
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Tom Fletcher, the head of U.N. OCHA, said that he would forgo American dollars rather than accept conditions tied to abortion, gender identity, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
OCHA chief says he'll refuse US money if new restrictions attached
OCHA chief says he'll refuse US money if new restrictions attached
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It's amazing what we can do when we try. It's also amazing what we don't think is worth trying to do. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rescuers release humpback whale that was stranded off German coast
Calf was transported by water-filled barge in operation deemed ‘inadvisable’ because of low chance of survival
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This is disturbing. The Australian Prime Minister has said they will implement all of the relevant recommendations, which presumably includes some of the 5 we're not allowed to know about because they were classified!!!! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bondi royal commission: Australia’s ‘counter-terrorism capability’ should be bolstered in wake of terror attack, report finds
Interim report contains 14 recommendations, after inquiry examined agencies’ actions before the attack in which 15 people were killed
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The cause of noma was identified by Gabriel Lund in 1765. Extreme poverty. Noma disappeared from Europe when malnutrition declined. No bug identification was needed. Maybe ... just maybe ... we could save children by ensuring access to adequate nutrition. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Astonishing’ discovery could help save children from deadly disfiguring condition
A previously unknown species of bacteria found in noma patients could be key to creating treatments for the neglected tropical disease
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