New on Facts and Opinions:
Congratulatons to founding feature writer Brian Brennan, whose
story Canada’s Mayor – F&O’s first original magazine feature –
won Runner-up, Best Feature Article, in the 2014 Professional Writers
Association of Canada Awards.
COMMENTARY
JONATHAN MANTHORPE — International Affairs
The Shameful Stain of Religious Violence
JIM MCNIVEN — Thoughtlines
The Future of the Global University System
CHRIS WOOD — Natural Security
Harbingers of our Mortality
LOOSE LEAF — F&O’S Salon
CHARLES MANDEL on Yesterday’s Man (free)
PENNEY KOME on The Degree Bubble (free)
TZEPORAH BERMAN on Ugly Oil Debates (free)
CHERYL HAWKES on Hurricane Carter (free)
DISPATCHES
The Forgotten Concentration Camp/GEO
By TOBY THACKER, The Conversation
BRICS Bank a Game Changer/MONEY
By ALI BURAK GUVEN, The Conversation
Public Watchdog: Crowdsourcing in Indonesia/PUBLICA
By RULI MANURUNG, The Conversation
Domesticated Animals with Floppy Ears/SCIENCE
By DON NEWGREEN and JEFFREY CRAIG, The Conversation
Fracking Water Contamination Feared in California/GEO
by ABRAHAM LUSTGARTEN, ProPublica
International law and flight MH17/PUBLICA
By MELANIE KLINKNER, The Conversation
Anting: a brief/SCIENCE
By DEBORAH JONES
Canadian Court Expands Aboriginal Rights/JUSTICE
By DEBORAH JONES
Aggressive Tactic on the Fracking Front
By NAVEENA SADASIVAN, ProPublica
Red Cross Claims its Spending a ‘Trade Secret’/PUBLICA
By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, ProPublica
Deadly Danger in Female Hurricane Names/SCIENCE
By DEBORAH JONES
A Whale for the Taking/GEO
By GREG LOCKE and DEBORAH JONES
Oscar Pistorius and South Africa’s VIP Justice/JUSTICE
By RUTH HOPKINS
MAGAZINE
SHELDON FERNANDEZ, A Soccer Fanatic Reflects
RYAN GOLDBERG, ProPublica, on the Kentucky Derby
JAKE BERNSTEIN, ProPublica, on Treating Cancer
STEPHEN KIMBER on The Cuban Five
EXPERT WITNESS
TZEPORAH BERMAN on The Pointy End of Activism
BRAD ALLENBY on Smart Thinking about Geo-engineering
ANDREW MACK on Global Violence
ARTS
DINAH BIRCH, Judging the Man Booker Prize
JEFF GERTH, on Hillary Clinton and Iraq
CHARLES MANDEL, on the Republic of Doyle
BRIAN BRENNAN on Larry Kramer’s Normal Heart
Norway’s Void, a Memory Wound in images
ENERGY – An ongoing series
On the Energy that Runs the world
Jon Stewart, Israel, and Freedom of Expression;
Online tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting;
Adding Climate to Environmental Assessments;
Man Bookers; Summer Festivals; Quidditch
How to Stop Being Tracked Online;
Bombast: the Hobby Lobby Ruling;
Hope and warning in bipartisan climate/economy reports;
British Accents; Detoxifying Comments; How Facebook
Follows You; Creepy Online Tracking; Assisted Suicide
VANCOUVER, Canada — Team USA rode their brooms to beat Australia for the gold in the final match of the Quidditch Global Games July 19 in Burnaby, a suburb of this Western Canadian city. Quidditch, a game invented by author J.K. Rowling in her Harry Potter series of books and films, requires players to hold broomsticks between their legs. Matches are played with three types of balls all at once: one golden snitch, three bludgers and one quaffle. As well as the United States (1st) and Australia (2nd), the games involved Canada (bronze), the United Kingdom (4th), Mexico (5th), France (6th) and Belgium (7th). No wizards revealed their presence, although one child was dressed in a black robe that would not have been out of place at Hogwarts.The Global Games were one of several international Quidditch events held this year. Quidditch has grown in popularity worldwide, starting mostly on university campuses and recently evolving into an internationally organized sport. Photo by Deborah Jones © 2014Facts and Opinions is an online journal of select and first-rate reporting and analysis, in words and images: a boutique for slow journalism, without borders. Independent, non-partisan and employee-owned, F&O performs journalism for citizens, funded entirely by readers. We do not carry advertising or solicit donations from foundations or causes.
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