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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Books read in September 2018

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New: 1. Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places by Kathryn H. Anthon...

Dear Miss Manners: what if you're bereaved and have poor acting skills?

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From a recent Miss Manners : Dear Miss Manners: At the funeral of a very dear person who was a founding member of the church I attend, I ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Demontage

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As I was struggling through yet another tedious round of vision therapy, I found myself thinking that if this were a movie, it would be port...
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Friday, September 21, 2018

Telling your relatives about DNA test results

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A common theme in advice columns recently has been whether to disclose information from genealogy DNA tests to one's relatives. Exampl...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Things They Should UNinvent: italics as default blockquote style

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Many advice columns put reader letters in italics. This is a problem, since advice column letters are often multiple paragraphs long, and it...
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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Things They Should Invent: notwithstanding clause penalty box

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The notwithstanding clause enables provincial and territorial legislatures to override Canadians' Charter rights and freedoms. This is...
Thursday, September 06, 2018

The first cloth

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Think about how you make woolen or cotton cloth.* You get wool off a woolly animal or cotton out of a cotton plant. You card it, spin the ...
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Monday, September 03, 2018

Things They Should Study: what would it actually cost to improve public services?

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As I sat in the ER waiting room for six hours , I found myself thinking "What would it take to completely eliminate the wait times?...
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Friday, August 31, 2018

Books read in August 2018

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New: 1. The Hard Way Out: My Life with the Hells Angels and Why I Turned Against Them by Dave Atwell with Jerry Langton 2. Cringeworthy: ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Things They Should Invent: clothing characteristic search engine

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Clothing geeks have a lot of nuanced opinions about which design features you should look for in clothing.  They'll mention things like ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

The first shapes

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Circle, square, triangle, rectangle. Shapes are an extremely basic thing taught to toddlers, alongside letters and numbers and colours and a...
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

In which my brain writes antagonist-POV advice column fanfiction

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What Happened to Us? I have a good friend who lives in my town. I’m not sure why, but we became estranged. She just stopped talking to m...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

The Dyslexie font helps me read with convergence and accommodative insufficiency resulting from head trauma

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The biggest problem with the visual issues that came with my head injury (for the googlers: my diagnosis was convergence insufficiency and ...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Young Sheldon

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The interesting thing about Young Sheldon is it hardly ever makes me laugh, but is still very effective. Each episode is a gentle, heartwa...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Unwanted "healing"

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A couple of years ago, my brain started doing that old-lady thing of accidentally calling people by the wrong name . One of the most unexp...
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Monday, August 06, 2018

Civic Holiday should be Emancipation Day

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I'm 37 years old, I've lived in Ontario my entire life, and it's only this year that I learned a) August 1 is Emancipation Day ,...
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Sunday, August 05, 2018

Things They Should Invent: legally binding #StealThisIdea

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TV writers on Twitter keep telling people not to tweet show ideas at them.  Apparently if you tweet an idea at them, they're not allowed...
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Saturday, August 04, 2018

Things They Should Study (or publicize, if they've already studied it): to what extent do social programs make life easier for employers?

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I am truly terrible at washing my windows.  Every time I wash them, they end up covered in streaks - basically I'm just rearranging the ...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Books read in July 2018

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New: 1. Shi-shi-etko by Nicola I. Campbell 2. Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson 3. Life Among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman 4. ...
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