- Jul 28, 2019
- 4 min
HONEYBEES AND HUMANITY
There's a meme that's been going around for a decade or more that I'd like to see end. There are many variations but they typically...
- Oct 20, 2017
- 3 min
THE STERNUTATION RESPONSE
We know why we sneeze. Sneezing (or sternutation) typically happens due to foreign particulate getting inside you and agitating the cilia...
- Sep 1, 2016
- 4 min
PHANTASIA?
It was July 29, 2016 when I came across an amazing article written by Carl Zimmer, my favourite science writer. The piece, titled...
- Mar 11, 2016
- 9 min
BEING BORN
I only made it through the first season of Mad Men. As a television series set in an advertising firm at the end of the 1950s, I found it...
- Feb 23, 2015
- 8 min
THE SKY HAS NEVER LOOKED SO BLUE
I was recently blessed with an eye exam. I’d never been to an optometrist and thought my vision was fine, but I’ve spent about ten years...
- Dec 2, 2013
- 7 min
HYPOCRISY
(Co-authored with Rick Waines) December 1st, World AIDS Day, came and went with the same coverage we’ve come to expect. Once again this...
- Jul 19, 2013
- 3 min
REFLECTIONS
I think I tend to be a bit of a contrarian and skeptic simply because so much of reality is innately counter-intuitive and our built...
- Jun 2, 2009
- 65 min
WHAT MORE COULD ONE WANT?
It was Wednesday February 7th, 2001, when Munro and I landed in Singapore. We arrived just after midnight, after more than nineteen hours...