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Divorce Party, by Lisa Baird
After ripping each other apart, and your tents, to stay together, when you finally let…
Comics creator Sam Hester: How visual storytelling creates better health care
Sam Hester is a graphic recorder and comics creator in Calgary. This TED talk is…
Bad beliefs: Misinformation is factually wrong – but is it ethically wrong, too?
The impact of disinformation and misinformation has become impossible to ignore. Whether it is denial about climate…
In praise of water: World Water Day
Since 1993, people around the world have been marking March 22 as World Water Day…
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…
Results showed that gender, psychopathy, and sadism were all significant independent predictors of malevolent trolling. That is, if you are male, have high psychopathy, or high sadism, you are more likely to troll.
Caroline Fox’s ‘At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast’ welcomes readers into the world of BC’s bird-filled, rugged coastline. But, her message almost gets lost in a sea of jargon.
Sometimes things that look simple, just aren’t. It’s fascinating to me that there’s a team of putter togetherers. Learn more about Ernest Wright scissors.
Youtube | How To Be At Home Andrea Dorfman | provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Lands are being changed. People were born on these lands. They live there and have families and ancestors there. These places are being destroyed. And…
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?
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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.