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 New: 1. Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox by Danielle Daniel 2. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America ...

I previously came up with the idea of pre-sliced frozen pizza . You can't cut a frozen pizza, but a whole frozen pizza is more than one ...

A while back, a politician said that she moved out of Toronto because she felt it lacked community, citing as an example “ I would never go ...

Last spring, I experienced thigh chafing for the first time in my life. Due to my disproportionately long inseam and dislike of the curren...

Conventional wisdom is that politicians lie. But when we say this, we usually mean "They don't keep their electoral promises....

Sometimes it can be logistically inconvenient to go to events alone. It can be a lot easier to go as part of a group, so you can hold each o...

Google searches contain the option to refine results time posted. On the results page, click on "Tools", then click on the little ...

Hey, Captain . I’ve got a bit of a social conundrum and would appreciate any tips/scripts to help me deal with people I don’t want to tal...

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...