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New: 1. The Alzheimer's Diary by Joan Sutton 2. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion 3. Happiness by Design by Paul Dolan 4. The End ...

I recently read an article about a designer who's making clothes for people in wheelchairs : The mainstream clothing that we buy is cu...

I had a teacher in high school who always wore high-waisted, pleated pants, and I thought they made her look frumpy. This teacher was the ki...

I've been reading about the famous Nun Study of Alzheimer's disease, and specifically about its findings relating to idea density. ...

I didn't notice this Damage Control column when it first came out, but I have an idea for the letter-writer: I am in my early 30s. A...

I was riding a subway northbound on the Yonge line. As we travelled from Davisville to Eglinton, the driver made an announcement: "Atte...

1. Sometimes I get coupons in my email that are only good for a limited time or on a certain day, or if I spend a certain amount of money.  ...

One of the things we did in my Sociolinguistics class in university was analyze print advertisements.  While analyzing an ad for some kind o...

New: 1. The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House by Tessa Boase 2. Naked Came the Phoenix (serial n...

Content warning: this post contains graphic, yucky descriptions of blisters and feet. tl;dr: if you have blisters on your feet, soak them i...

With yesterday's legalization of same-sex marriage nation-wide in the US (congratulations, by the way!), I was surprised to see a few pe...

My various investigations into resilience tend to talk about change an awful lot, often framing people as either embracing change or being c...

A few months ago, they closed the Smart Set in my neighbourhood.  I was disappointed, because some of my very favourite shirts have come fro...

A while back, I came up with the idea that nursing homes should provide free esthetics services so female patients don't have to deal w...

My cellphone uses both the Rogers and Fido networks. The other day I was involved in a long texting conversation while walking around the ne...

At certain points in Western history, aristocratic women didn't dress themselves.  They had their maids help them.  Based on what I'...

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, ...