- Sep 19, 2017
- 3 min
FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT
I was reading a book about infinity. In it, the author, not a physicist, deviates into a discussion of the quantum world. He explains how...
- Jul 2, 2017
- 5 min
GAFF
"You're not like the other boys", a voice said from over my left shoulder. That had to be the cheesiest pickup line ever, I thought as I...
- Mar 16, 2017
- 8 min
HOUNDINGS (UPDATED)
In August 2016 I shipped my belongings from Ontario to Alberta on Greyhound. The shipment was in two parts with two separate tracking...
- Jan 10, 2017
- 5 min
QUESTIONING QUESTIONED QUESTIONS
I've been mildly criticized of “never asking questions” of other people. This has been brought up several times over the last few years...
- 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...
- Oct 20, 2015
- 8 min
EDUCATION GAP
It has been said my entire life that schools strongly favour boys while making a sport out of either passively neglecting or actively...
- Sep 10, 2014
- 1 min
THE PATH LESS TRAVELLED?
Robert Frost did not write: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference....
- Mar 27, 2013
- 6 min
LOST IN ENCODING
I love books but hate reading. Growing up I struggled to read and always found it dreadfully boring. Not much has changed since then....
- Apr 2, 2011
- 12 min
DISAGREEING WITH FEMINIST JOURNALISTS or HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE
In the April 1st edition of Victoria’s Times Colonist, Jody Paterson wrote an article about a horrific sexual assault that took place in...
- Apr 9, 2010
- 8 min
PRESCRIPTIONS
What I love the most about the Ten Commandments is that those stone tablets, we are told, were the only time God (G-d, Elohim, Yahweh,...