San Francisco Gate reports on the famous Waikiki Beach in Hawaii and the possibility that the beach could be on the verge of disappearing by the end of the century.
The projected rise of the sea level by three feet by that time will likely swallow up Waikiki but erosion is already eating away the beach as damage to coral reefs are not allowing the beach to replenish itself with needed sand.
A temporary solution is "beach nourishment" in which sand is brought in from other places, added to the beach, and should widen the beach, which proponents say should buy Waikiki thirty years but is not going to reverse the problem permanently.
Maclean's writes of a meteorite that literally landed beside a British Columbia woman in her bed and besides nearly killing her (had it hit her in the head), the meteorite could be almost five hundred million years old.
The article states that space rocks hit the earth an average of forty-one times a month but the chances of one coming through the roof of the house as in this case are one in one hundred billion but more importantly the "catcher" could sell the meteorite (or pieces of it) and make up to a few hundred thousand dollars.
Vulture.com writes of "The Undoing" of Joss Whedon, who has had his reputation sullied by recent allegations of his behavior going back to his days of running "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and up to some of his more recent projects.
Whedon had once been "an icon of Hollywood Feminism" and now is an outcast among the same demographic that placed him on a pedestal.
As a fan of "Buffy" and a later show "Firefly", I liked Whedon's work on those shows but didn't dig into the "Whedonverse" consisting of people that praised him beyond belief.
I'll let you decide whether you believe Whedon or his accusers...
Gabrielle Drolet writes this opinion piece in the Toronto Globe and Mail on adult care of ADHD in Canada.
While there are a few differences between the American and Canadian official treatments/requirements for adult ADHD, I thought the piece itself was provoking on how adults are treated and how ADHD is diagnosed to be quite interesting.
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