G+ Migration Blog

I'd honestly never heard of this writer (Elena Ferrante), but after hearing about this on NPR, and CBC radio, I got curious. I have to say, I really do think there're an awful lot of questions to ask about the motivations of someone known for traditional investigative journalism of things like financial scandals, the CIA and possible arms dealing, or human trafficking. Suddenly he decides to investigate the "lie" of an anonymous author because his friends asked him? It's the biggest question anyone outside of Italy has about Italy? It sure sounds like people suggesting he didn't really examine his own motives and there's an underlying current of misogyny might have a point. Plus, if he's right about who the author is, there isn't a big "lie", and while he may think it's great to be admiring of a family where someone survived the Holocaust, maybe she doesn't want to talk about it? Maybe that's a private thing for her and her fa...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-hurricane-cholera-destruction-matthew-1.3798697 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-hurricane-cholera-destruction-matthew-1.3798697

AAAUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!! My brother is leaving tomorrow, I can do the thing. I am not laying this totally on him, but his being here and the way it was handled led to exactly the insane confluence of disturbed humanity I said it would. #callmecassandra #nowaitdont

Here's a new one for ya. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/10/08/496894601/why-scientists-are-keeping-an-eye-on-a-little-known-virus http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/10/08/496894601/why-scientists-are-keeping-an-eye-on-a-little-known-virus

Huh. Who knew? http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/10/09/496869349/the-lemba-jews-of-zimbabwe-are-having-a-hopeful-new-year http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/10/09/496869349/the-lemba-jews-of-zimbabwe-are-having-a-hopeful-new-year

Well, you'll die later? http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/08/497042318/diet-and-nutrition-are-now-the-world-s-biggest-health-risks-report-finds http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/08/497042318/diet-and-nutrition-are-now-the-world-s-biggest-health-risks-report-finds

so dengue + zika = very, very bad? http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/09/30/495935879/zika-mystery-how-did-a-73-year-old-man-infect-his-son http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/09/30/495935879/zika-mystery-how-did-a-73-year-old-man-infect-his-son