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New: 1. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 2. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion  ...

When I was in elementary school (between 1985 and 1991),  this story-teller sort of guy came to our school and told us some stories.  When i...

I first saw this kind of sign in Frankfurt Airport in 1998.  I had just gotten off long flight and badly had to pee.  In my condition, ...

Whistling is hard, at least compared with other ways of producing potentially-musical noise such as humming or singing or just opening your ...

The "density creeps" who have been in the news lately remind me of one of the mysteries of Yonge & Eglinton: people who delib...

1. In one episode, the expectant parents with the Medical Drama of the Week happen to be a black couple.  It's mentioned in passing that...

There was recently a story tweeted into my feed about proposed "zero tolerance" for boycotting Israel . This reminded me of some...

I'm signed up for various free sample and coupon sites, and I've noticed recently that they are really pushing detergent pods, for b...

As you've noticed if you've been reading me these past few months, I've been getting stressed about various things that I think ...

This post was inspired by, but is not directly related to, this quiz testing how much you know about the new Ontario sex ed curriculum. (I ...

I was very happy to hear that the City of Toronto is consulting the public about indoor temperature bylaws for rental housing.  I'm mis...

Sometimes when I buy a salad it's not tossed, it's organized.  All the tomatoes are together in a clump, all the cheese is together ...

I've blogged before about how a lot of my basic understanding of medical and political concepts comes from my lifelong habit of readin...

1. Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America by "Leslie Knope" 2. This is Improbable by Marc Abrahams 3. TransAtlantic by Colum McCan...

When I was a little girl, my grandmother took us to see Sharon, Lois & Bram whenever they were in town. Eventually, we outgrew their co...

I was recently thinking about the notion of the first tourist , i.e. the first person in human history to travel for recreational purposes. ...

When I was a kid, I always felt vaguely humiliated that my life didn't work like the lives of the protagonists of my books.  They got to...

An article on the front page of today's Toronto Star says that an advocacy group is calling for an end to streaming in Ontario high scho...

In the shower this morning, it occurred to me that some one person in human history must have been the very first tourist, by which I mean t...