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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Books read in February 2017

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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 ...

Things They Almost Invented: pre-sliced frozen pizza

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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 ...
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Monday, February 20, 2017

I would never think of borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbour. Here's why that's a good thing.

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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 ...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

Profiled

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Last spring, I experienced thigh chafing for the first time in my life. Due to my disproportionately long inseam and dislike of the curren...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

What if different kinds of lies were like apples and oranges?

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Conventional wisdom is that politicians lie. But when we say this, we usually mean "They don't keep their electoral promises....
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Monday, February 06, 2017

Things They Should Invent: platonic meetup app for women attending events alone

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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...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

How Google can solve the "post-truth" problem in one easy step

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Google searches contain the option to refine results time posted. On the results page, click on "Tools", then click on the little ...
Thursday, February 02, 2017

Advice for "Too Stressed For This" from Captain Awkward

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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...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Books read in January 2017

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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...
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

How do people on the wrong side of the confidence gap perceive other people's abilities?

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I blogged before about the notion of the confidence gap , where some people are loudly overconfident about their own abilities. I wonder h...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

A solution to the bringing kids to demonstrations dilemma

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I've always had mixed feelings about bringing children too young to develop an independent opinion on the issues to political demonstrat...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Things They Should Invent: bottled flat ginger ale

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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...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Things people say

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People (specifically Canadian Anglophones) are often surprised that I learned French in regular public school (as opposed to going to French...
Thursday, January 05, 2017

Did you need an invitation to join the French Resistence?

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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...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017

What if there are perfectly unremarkable sexual proclivities that no human has ever had?

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Humanity collectively has a mind-blowing range of sexual proclivities, so I've always operated under the assumption that every imaginabl...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Things They Should Invent: put buildings on the internet before they tear them down

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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...
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Monday, January 02, 2017

Girl colours and boy colours

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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...
Sunday, January 01, 2017

"Excuse me, are you Jewish?"

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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...
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Books read in December 2016

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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...
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