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New: 1. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin 2. Victoria by Daisy Goodwin 3. A Burglar...

I blogged before about the notion of the confidence gap , where some people are loudly overconfident about their own abilities. I wonder h...

I've always had mixed feelings about bringing children too young to develop an independent opinion on the issues to political demonstrat...

A common home remedy for an upset stomach or nausea is to drink flat ginger ale. This is less easy than it could be, because ginger ale on...

People (specifically Canadian Anglophones) are often surprised that I learned French in regular public school (as opposed to going to French...

This idea occurred to me when thinking about the French Resistance during World War II (at least as portrayed in fiction), but I'd imagi...

Humanity collectively has a mind-blowing range of sexual proclivities, so I've always operated under the assumption that every imaginabl...

In my neighbourhood, there's a group of row houses that's going to be torn down for condos, and I'm extremely curious about what...

I currently have four baby cousins: three boys and one girl. (They aren't all so much babies - the oldest one is 3 - but old nomenclatur...

For several years now, there have been young men (they appear to be Orthodox Jewish students to my semi-informed eyes) who stand around on t...

New: 1. Birdie by Tracie Lindberg 2. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin 3. The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protect...

Toronto Star :    IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: This year you find that others count on you and want you to take the lead. Though you might...

When Eddie Izzard was running marathons across South Africa and periscoping his progress, I repeatedly saw people in the comments asking how...

From this week's Savage Love (emphasis mine): Perhaps you're not the best person to ask, being a cis white man, but as a queer w...

An excerpt from a recent Captain Awkward question : And now, here I am, 42 years old. My BF wants to know if I think our new bookcase sho...

So when you buy a new home, the expectation is that there will be problems.  (They call them "deficiencies".)  I've had a numb...

I blogged before about my filing system , where I sort things in order of when I received them after years of failing to sort stuff and just...

There are all kinds of organizer-type products out there that purport to help you organize your clutter by putting it into compartments.  Th...

New: 1. The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon 2. Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-...