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Globe and Mail – “The world’s leading authority on cancer research has declared the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields emitted by devices such as cellphones are possibly carcinogenic, a major step that is raising new questions about cellphone safety. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World

I am championing Jeff Gailus’ book The Grizzly Manifesto in the Alberta Readers’ Choice Awards.  You can vote for this book – and you should – if only because I asked you to.  But you should also read the book and the other four books in the competition.  There is

It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society Canada is now

This article from The Star on what the CES is showing about how new Canadians voted is pretty interesting. The common wisdom is that the Conservatives were successful in creating an impressive coalition of voting groups to give them a majority, and immigrants have been a part of that coalition

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants citizens to use their brains lest they get eaten by packs of marauding zombies. Well, sort of. This week, the CDC launched a slick new media campaign that uses the tongue-in-cheek hypothetical scenario of a zombie apocalypse to teach the basics of

One good thing about the up-comming Rapture is that like everybody knows there is no place in Heaven for  Conservatives.

It will allow Layton to hold Harper to account. Why I expect it willbe so mercilessly effective that Harper will express regret for havingwon the election. The tearing of a new one for Steve begins in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1….

“A technique that helps crime fighters zoom in on a serial killer’s whereabouts may help scientists prevent deaths of a different sort — those caused by infectious diseases. The widely used criminology technique, called geographic profiling, helps investigators narrow a search by pinpointing high-priority targets among thousands of potential locations.

In keeping with my last off-topic post: “A Polish architectural firm has designed the world’s first zombie-proof house called the “safe House”, reports said. The house is not really inspired by the walking dead but has got plenty of interest as the world celebrates its fifth annual zombie awareness month

After the election I took the train to Belgium for a week and binged on beer and waffles. Hung out at the Delirium Cafe in Brussels, a famous beer bar with a phone book beer menu (over 2,000 bottles) and spent a massive amount of money that I should have