Disaster Movies
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in canada, education, politics, quotes, science, thought | No Comments »As a captive to the vision of the director, you, the audience of a disaster movie, are presented with a character or set of characters with which to sympathize. Of course, they are likable, or at least have some redeeming ...
Blog Action Day: Vegetarianism and the Environment
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in economics, environment, personal, politics, science, thought | 2 Comments »I was really disappointed when - on Blog Action Day of all days - real life once again disrupted my usual posting schedule. It has been a really crazy couple of days, so my entry is a depressing three days ...
Weekend Reading: 05/28
Sunday, May 27th, 2007 Posted in coffee, gender, internet, personal, religion, science | 3 Comments »Since I left the last 'Weekend Reading' until mid-week, this one has only a few days' worth of links. I believe these ones date back to... last Wednesday? Anyway, enjoy this week's very short list! Best of the Week - Religion: ...
How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in education, intelligence, opinion, science, thought | 48 Comments »EDIT: This post has been chosen as a finalist in the 2007 Edublog Awards! Thank you to all its readers! :) Earlier today, a friend and former teacher of mine made a post (private on another blog, and therefore unlinkable) ...
The *real* ethical dilemma
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 Posted in canada, economics, news, opinion, personal, politics, science | 2 Comments »In light of current events, I've decided to briefly postpone my focus on the topics I mentioned earlier to address Friday's big announcement. By this I mean, of course, the "Climate Change 2007" release from the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
Conversation and chaos
Thursday, January 25th, 2007 Posted in philosophy, science, thought | 1 Comment »Bear with me, for today is the day I deviate (sort of) from my usual liberal arts/humanities subject matter and venture into the world of math and non-social sciences. Gasp! Will I be any good at it? ...
