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Bison came up in conversation today as an example of a tremendous, almost miraculous, conservation victory. (Also, winner of best...

You’ve likely noticed Progressives in America all atwitter with talk of what is being called the Green New Deal. And, as the nation that...

Before we could get keys and move in, our new landlord said he needed to have a plumber come. But he said he'd contact us shortly, as...

Some people were sitting together working on their laptops in the cafe when I sat down to start my own work. Shortly after I arrived one...

By Kale McDunitt May 29th, 2022 Austria's Schönbrunn Zoo, the world's oldest continuously operating zoo, went public today with a secret...

With so much discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly school and workplace trainings, I thought I would see what I...

Seems every news and information source is offering that we are on the cusp of a global insect mass-extinctions threatening all life on...

“What's up?” asks Perk, imagining Gram must be a little depressed, though certain as ever he remains unable to read the man. Cocking his...

I'm constantly hearing about archaeologists digging up ruins and collecting artifacts from the ancient Aztec empire. Historians and...

America's Authors Guild recently collected data from its own membership and the members of 14 other writers' organizations, including:...

I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...

“I don’t know, it’s like how people don’t seem to think about how things are made or what they’re for.” “They do, don’t they?” “No. I...

Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...

Today I got a little booklet in the mail from the provincial government. It was the official voter's guide to the referendum on electoral...

Nothing happened 2,018 years ago on the first day of January. Bizarrely, Pope Gregory XIII, who gave us our modern calendar back in 1582,...

Over the last two decades I've acquired many kettles and tea pots. I've had stove-top kettles and electric kettle, whistling and...

The Atlantic magazine carried an article called "The Case For Getting Rid of Borders – Completely." I really wanted to hear something...

As a child, Liam worked evenings across town in a barber shop as a soap boy lathering rough faces. At thirteen he dropped out of school...

- I am a mosquito magnet. (Like getting twenty a day through my clothes, while wearing repellant, when no one else is getting any at...

One afternoon in Kampala I was out running errands when I decided to hail a boda-boda (a motorcycle taxi and the most common public...

I brought with me a little souvenir from my Nile trip: malaria. Despite being paranoid and always being covered up (only ever wearing...

Me: a traveler passing through. Emma: a gainfully employed husband and father. We were talking about what it's like to live in Kampala....

Several times during my undergrad I had people suggest to me that I couldn't possibly understand what it's like to have trouble learning...

While I had no jet lag of any kind it has been a slow and steamy transition from -32 Calgary to feeling comfortable in equatorial Africa....