Bojan Fürst

Europe’s Noise Capital Tries to Turn Down the Volume To combat the ill effects of urban noise pollution, Paris is deploying automated sensors and cracking down on the loudest vehicles.

“The effort to quiet Paris complements the wider campaign to make Paris greener, cleaner & less car-dependent, which include vehicle restrictions in the center, crackdowns on polluting vehicles, & an ambitious expansion of bike networks. Those have cut the city’s average noise level by 2 decibels.”

Slowly killing research at Memorial University – The Independent A university is not its buildings, and it doesn’t exist to serve private-sector interests. It is about the pursuit of knowledge.

"Each cut sends the same message, never stated outright but unmistakable: research not directly tied to immediate economic outcomes is dispensable."

Read MUNL Philosophy Professor Sean McGrath's new op-ed in our 'State of the University' series 👇
theindependent.ca/commentary/c...

Podcast Storytelling Workshop — STORYCENTER Podcast professionals Bojan Furst and Michelle Dahlenburg will take you through an 8 week journey into podcasting. You’ll find a clear, distinctive voice for your podcast, within a storytelling framew...

I will be teaching another podcasting workshop (March 6-April 24) with @michelledahlenburg.bsky.social and @storycenter.org! And I am told there is still a couple of spots left. Would love to see you there! www.storycenter.org/schedule/pod...
#podcast
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#audiostorytelling

Holt Liberals look at merging, privatizing some universities | CBC News Fredericton’s St. Thomas University could cease to exist and Sackville’s Mount Allison University could be privatized under scenarios the Holt government is considering for cuts to post-secondary educ...

Austerity, something, something... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Price of Gold Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environment...

NEW: You can now freely access the *full* introduction of our new book, The Price of Gold, on the refreshed website for @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social:

www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...

Hvar in the Modern Age by @fbieber.bsky.social traces the history of the island using it as a lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing states & identity, tourism & the transnational entanglements of the Adriatic Sea & the region of southeast Europe.

🔓 https://bit.ly/49LfcLF

What is the score?
Peter Shostak
1982

Sacre coeur
Bruno Côté
1981

My neighbour and I came up with a new exhibition sport for the #olympics next time they are in Canada. Snow shovelling. A speed event, street free style, and doubles. Commit a foul - a plow comes. Help a player and there is a chance someone with a snowblower shows up. A quintessential Canadian game.

Cederhusen, Stockholm.

245 apartments in 10-13 storey cedar-clad buildings, with a cross laminated timber structure.

Designed by General Architecture.

A thread 🧵

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Geography's 'combination of STEM, social science and arts and humanities can sit uneasily within university faculty systems, heightening the risk that we are dismantled into separate components.' 1/2

Looks much more comfortable than the morgue that is NightJet from Amsterdam to Vienna. Also... Railway journalist - that sounds like the most awesome job on the planet.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Who goes Nazi? was written 85 years ago. You should try it at the next party or a meeting: harpers.org/archive/1941...

After the anti-ICE rally at the Minnesota State Capitol organized by CAIR, organizers gathered to pray and share a meal at a local Somali restaurant.

When the crowds leave, the work continues. Minnesotans are still here, still organizing, still pushing forward to get ICE out.

1.27.2026
📍St. Paul

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Real Estate firesale at Memorial — Bojan Fürst On Memorial University sale of Signal Hill and Harlow Campuses.

Wrote something about #MUN sale of Signal Hill Campus. Not that important, just wanted to get it out: bojanfurstphotography.com/dailyblog/20...

Videnović: Crna Gora ulazi u najopasniji period od 2006, trebaće vam snažna podrška da se oduprete ruskim plaćenicima „Po modelu Ukrajine, radikalska ruska služinčad u Srbiji ne smije dozvoliti sada izvjestan ulazak Crne Gore u EU. Oni će počiniti svaki zločin radi izazivanja h

www.portalanalitika.me/clanak/viden...

Near 26th & Nicollet, clashes erupted following the k*lling of Alex Jeffrey Pretti involving federal agents.

Tear gas and other non-lethal munitions were deployed. People were detained as smoke filled the streets.

1/2

1.24.2026
📍South Minneapolis

Screenshot of headline regarding the impact of electric vehicles on the auto industry and the future of transportation.

Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Mark Carney just shook up the world His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.

My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...

Plenty that is baffling these days, but few things are more baffling than some major auto companies looking at this global trend and deciding NAH, NOT FOR ME

When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world

How did the picture of time as a line come to be so entrenched in Western thought, and what effect does it have on how we experience reality? This Essay by professor of philosophy Emily Thomas takes us on a jaunt through history to find out more

‘We thought they would ignore us’: how humans are changing the way raptors behave Experts call for tighter regulation as GPS tracking reveals how people’s behaviour affects the lives of some of the world’s largest birds

‘We thought they would ignore us’: how humans are changing the way raptors behave

Donald Trump is waging war against human conscience | Osita Nwanevu The Trump administration’s assaults on liberty are the kinds of abuses that spurred the American revolution that the nation will commemorate this year

Donald Trump Is Waging War Against Human Conscience. “The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late — neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.” (via @jamellebouie.net) [theguardian.com]

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

wonderful, rambling post about food...

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

An international law scholar weighs in on the implications of Trump’s arrest of Maduro in Venezuela. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...