My Monthly Digest List - March - 2026

Canadian Geographic

Martial arts master, Holleywood actor Chuck Norris dies at 86.

Psychology Today

November/December2025, Volume 58, No. 6

The philosopher of patterns

How we discover the world around us, according to Douglas Hofstadter.

By Tyler Woods

Now 80 and retired after five decades as a professor at the University of Indiana, he’s also turned his focus to a related project he’s been engaged in his entire adult life: ambigrams.

“It’s how we come to understand. Analogy is how we do everything.”

The emerging problem of ‘AI Psychosis’

Chatbots may amplify people’s delusions.

By Marlyn Wei, M.D., J.D.

a paper in preprint, titled “Delusion by design? How everyday AIs might be fueling psychosis(and what can be done about it)” by an interdisciplinary team of researchers

Reader’s Digest

February/March 2026, Large Print

My Heart will go on

A medical journalist’s surprise heart attack reveals how much she didn’t know about the No.1 killer of women - and men

By Melinda Lawrence

The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (and How it Can Get it Back)

by David Cayley

Preface

This book goes to press at a moment when the election campaign of 2025 is still in progress and its outcome still uncertain. The Conervative Party has pleged to “defund” the CBC, excepting Radio Canada, and its leader, Pierre Poilievre, has even threatened to turn the CBC’s English language headquarters into a hoursing project. The Liberal Party has said it will increase funding to the CBC and “renew” its mandate. Both parties assume they know what the CBC is and what it’s for.