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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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

The notwithstanding clause enables provincial and territorial legislatures to override Canadians' Charter rights and freedoms. This is...

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 ...

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?...

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: ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 ,...

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...

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 ...

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. ...