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November 11 2018 No book review this time.. It's snowing hard so a good day for indoor endeavors. I've added a Resources section to the site, mostly WWW links to various bloggers, news sites and radio/video channels that I find informative. All are HTTP resources as there seems scant offerings (that I'm aware of) on Gopher of similar materials. Links to Gopher materials on the subjects of climate change, energy depletion, and similarly depressing topics are most welcome and can be sent to meta4[at]devio[dot]us. I've also been exploring Gophernicus' dynamic content capabilities. Perhaps I'm in error but it appears some of the capabilities are disabled on the Devio.us server; so far I've not been successful in creating any Type 7 query-based scripts. More success was had utilizing some of the CGI environment variables to create polls. A test poll is currently running - a gopher poll poll ;) - which allows visitors to vote, once per IP address. The poll will run until the end of the month. Misc. stuff: Radio EcoShock recently interviewed Jean-Marc Jancovici[1] who is sort of a French Richard Heinberg but with a solid technical background. I was impressed enough to look for more interviews or presentations. There are several videos on YouTube but unfortunately (for me anyway) most are in French. The one I watched in English was very good, a presentation made in August 2018 to the ENS School of Paris titled "Can we save energy, jobs and growth at the same time?" (spoiler: no, we can't). The lecture is about an hour followed by a refreshingly thoughtful Q&A, perhaps not too surprising given that it's ENS. Turns out the video was already linked to from the EcoShock interview so look for it there. As a segue of sorts, the director of The Shift Project[2], Matthieu Auzanneau, (Jancovici is the project's founder) has the English translation of his book 'Oil Power and War: A Dark History' coming out later this month. Auzanneau has been writing[3] for some time about oil and it's role in the formation of the current global industrial civilization and I'm looking forward to the book. -- [1] https://www.ecoshock.org/2018/10/jean-marc-jancovici-whistling-past-the-graveyard.html [2] https://theshiftproject.org/en/home/ [3] https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/matthieu-auzanneau/