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Rejecting science has a long history – the pandemic showed what happens when you ignore this
Anti-vaccination groups, as well as other anti-science movements, are not new phenomena, nor are the…
Research: trolls don’t just enjoy hurting others, they also feel good about themselves
Results showed that gender, psychopathy, and sadism were all significant independent predictors of malevolent trolling….
At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: a review
Caroline Fox’s ‘At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast’ welcomes readers into the…
Well designed scissors
Sometimes things that look simple, just aren’t. It’s fascinating to me that there’s a team…
How to be at home, by Andrea Dorfman
Youtube | How To Be At Home Andrea Dorfman | provided by the National Film…
Grief, destruction, and The Magnitude of All Things
Lands are being changed. People were born on these lands. They live there and have…
Every once in a while I want to put pages into an RSS feed on a self-hosted WordPress site. When I do this, I prefer…
Several community partners and Okanagan College students have teamed up to determine if there are microplastics in Okanagan Lake and Kelowna’s municipal wastewater.
After getting past the ideological trap of good versus bad cop, the next step is to ask two fundamental questions in terms of what the police are for. Whom do the police serve? What do they protect in a colonialist and capitalist social order?
This discussion of ownership, values, and digital property is great.
I always forget how to do this! Select some sample noise Select Effect > Noise Reduction Click on Get Noise Profile Select all of the…
A smartphone rendered obsolete by the advancement of technology; an ode to the modern-day dilemma we all invariably face.
For the last couple of years, we’ve been aggregating the dispatches from the people in our network. We do this so we can keep up…
There’s not enough discussion of class in Canadian politics. How can looking at Canadian fiction and Canada Reads help shed light on how class is working today?
Please note that the time codes referenced here are for the web version of the story and will differ slightly if you are listening to…
These videos by Dr. Stan Ruecker and Dr. Milena Radzikowska are an excellent resource.
The more Geoguessr I played, the more I notice how design permeates our world, and lets us know where we are in surprising ways.
Frances Moore Lappé’s ‘Diet For a Small Planet’ was first published in 1971, but to anyone steeped in the world of food – be it…
Beyond just looking at and identifying birds, I’ve come to enjoy learning about bird-related issues. On that note, here are two recent(ish) articles about local Victoria bird news.
Capital Daily Podcast has a great episode about the creative ways Victoria restaurants have pivoted to meet the current situation.
As a maker of digital (and occasionally tangible) things, I love watching makers who use big, solid materials like wood, metal, and in this case,…
Ooh, nerds. The best. Also, amazing interviewer. I wonder if she was ever a theatre or improve nerd.