I saw articles about this Trout Lake monster popping up on Facebook last week. It’s the body of a creature that washed up on shores of the community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug on Big Trout Lake in Northern Ontario. The elders of the community said it was a mythical creature known as the ‘the ugly one’. [...]
Saw this strip, which is called Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, over at Language Log (which is an interesting blog about language from the University of Pennsylvania) with an interesting story about why engineers are so different from the rest of us. Well, it wasn’t targeted specifically at engineers but I like to make fun of [...]
BP. It used to stand for British Petroleum. Now it apparently stands for Beyond Petroleum most likely in a bid to try and make themselves sound more environmentally friendly but more likely because they spilled all their oil into the Gulf of Mexico so they have to start looking beyond it. There is no feel [...]
A couple of interesting things I’ve read recently: Should we tinker with plants genes. Includes a couple insightful letters the blogger, Pamela Ronald, received after writing an op-ed in the NY Times. She makes a couple great points about contradictions in what we consider organic agriculture and why we need to disentangle the ideas of [...]
I think local papers are an under-appreciated and under-used resource for people to get their ideas across. But one severe shortcoming they expose is that many people–many many people– some of the very people writing for these papers, don’t seem to know the difference between a good source of information and a bad one. The [...]
