Movember. For men, it’s a win-win time of year. You get to indulge that urge to grow facial hair selectively on your upper lip–an urge continually stymied by your girlfriend or wife–while contributing to research into the most common cancer in Canadian men. I wish I could say I had contributed my upper lip to [...]
Doc Ellis’ LSD no no
“What the fuck is that guitar she’s playing?!” was my reaction when I saw the ‘This Must Be The Place’ part in Stop Making Sense. I’m pretty sure I was eating Gandi‘s butter chicken roti (note to self-write about this in future. And eat more of this in future. And think about moving to Toronto [...]
If you’re a hockey fan and haven’t read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers yet, I’d suggest picking up a copy (or at least settling into a nice chair at the bookstore and reading the first chapter). In the first chapter, Gladwell convincingly drives home the point that minor league hockey suffers from the Matthew Effect. Basically, the [...]
Whoa. Global warming is complex, but c’mon: Girl: I’m SICK of global warming! The sun keeps going down earlier and earlier!!! -Upper Rez If you want to hear more really dumb things from people who are supposed to be smart go to Overheard at McGill. (Incase you didn’t notice, the title of this post is [...]
25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago I was recently reading about how scientists were speculating that detonating a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane could actually disperse the force of the winds and downgrade the impact. What? Wouldn’t it just create a radioactive hurricane? That sounds way worse to me. This got [...]
Berlin Wall falls 20 years ago.
A couple interesting talks coming up if you’re in Montreal this week: On Thursday you can choose between the Earth and the sky with either Dr. Andrew Hendry and Humans, Evolution and the Future of Biodiversity at 6pm or Dr. Janna Levin and the Sounds of a black hole at 6:45. In case you’re looking [...]
Imagine if you got paid to do the right thing. For holding the door open for an old lady . For stopping to let someone cross the street. We don’t always do these things because there is no incentive for us other than doing a nice thing for someone else. Pharmaceutical drug manufacturers live in [...]
I came across this small excerpt from Ian McEwan’s Saturday in, oddly enough, George Monbiot’s Heat. Henry Perowne is getting into the shower as he ponders: When this civilization fails, when the Romans, whoever they are this time round, have finally left and the new dark ages begin, this will be one of the first [...]
