Repost: What do you know about randomized control trials?

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: Every year, The Edge Foundation asks some of the smartest people in the world a question. A couple of my favourites from the past were [...]

Repost: Bringing the criticism home: medical research sucks

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: I wrote this post listening to this song by Toronto duo Bonjay so you may as well listen to it while you’re reading it. I’ve [...]

Repost: Why the future won’t be more of the same

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: I think I just figured out why I like behavioural economics so much. It’s probably one of the only fields where there seems to be [...]

Repost: What does Habs defenceman PK Subban have to do with medical errors?

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: If you’re in Toronto and have any interest in medicine, I suggest heading down to Glen Gould Studio on Tuesday to catch Dr. Brian Goldman, [...]

Repost: Multi-drug resistant philanthropy

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: It’s a bet I wouldn’t have taken ten years ago when I was at my most cynical: billionaires giving away most of their fortune to [...]

Repost: How much meat should you eat?

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: The amount of meat you should eat is tough topic to cover because it’s impossible to say anything from either side of the debate (pro-meat [...]

Repost: Is saving a species from extinction worth the life of a fireman and other difficult questions

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: The new Radiolab (definitely worth a listen) includes a story about a Michigan fireman killed in the Mack Lake Fire–a prescribed burn of a few [...]

Repost: Tag team: Colbert and Conan take on some ancient Greek philosophers

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: From Jennifer Michael Hecht’s book Doubt: With the gods gone, the universe seemed like a dead place of violence and chance and we human beings [...]

It’s BBQ Time, Boy-eee

Last year, Montreal’s, Da Gryptions released “The Bixi Anthem-It’s A Free Ride” about Montreal’s free all-access-pay-as-you-go-city-wide bike system. Catchy hooks, clever lyrics, an abundance of Expos’ gear (all good things), it had it all. The Bixi song was produced by Stephen Ramsay of

Repost: One way to feel really small

I’ll be away for two weeks hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness and Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. In the meantime, here is a repost of one of my favourite posts: If you’re older than 20 years old, we were once in a photo together. It was on February 14, 1990 when the Voyager 1 spacecraft [...]