Re-Writing the Death of a Giraffe
Baby giraffe killed at Copenhagen zoo despite worldwide protests My Twitter feed has been abuzz...
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Category: This is Broken
Swine Flu and Birdbrains: Someone is wrong on the internet
At first this comment on an article about H1N1 flu deaths in California just amused me. (Bold mine) h1n1 is a ‘man-made’ virus and therefore getting a flu shot for it, begs the question, why are we receiving...
Read MoreCanadians! Time to Black Out Speak Out
On June 4th, Canada’s major environmental organizations, together with leading charities, unions, bloggers, darkened their websites and join thousands of Canadians to Speak Out in defence of nature and...
Read MoreThe foot-flush and other defensive maneuvers
A couple of weeks ago, Maryn McKenna, over at Wired, asked the question: Can Better Bathroom Design Combat Infections? (I missed the story when it first came out because .. well .. I had an infection.) In that she talks...
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The Shameful Case of Ontario’s Roadside Zoos
One of the first things I noticed when I moved here to Ontario, was that if you drive around the...
Read MoreCar Shopping Day 1: Customer Service Fail
Our first venture into electric vehicles and hybrids went .. well .. oddly. We’ve decided that we’re too far ahead of the curve to go full electric. The cars aren’t here and neither is the infrastructure. So we...
Read MoreOh No! Quicksand!
Quick, what do you know about getting out of quicksand? Don’t struggle? Move slowly? Stay calm? Maybe you’ve seen Bear Gryllis do his Man vs Wild escape and know to try to ease your way on top of it before it sucks you under....
Read MoreWhat sex is your bathroom?
What’s wrong with this picture? I’ll tell you what’s wrong: Somebody decided that labeling the washroom “women’s” or even “ladies’” didn’t sound impressive enough. Those words were too mundane for the local pool and gym, and so...
Read MoreWhat if climate change were an asteroid?
In the movie Armageddon, a giant asteroid is about to hit earth and the whole world watches in terror as a crack team of space cowboys goes up and blows it to smithereens. Whew! Crisis averted. The world cheers. Life goes on....
Read MoreA Taste of the Blues
Presented without comment: Quothe Loblaws.ca PC Blue Menu makes healthier shopping easy! After reading all the headlines about Canadians wanting healthier choices, we knew one way we could help our customers eat better was to...
Read MoreSound you can’t unhear
Remember this? I’ve had the same thing happen to me with sound this week. I’m researching for my chapter on elephants and infrasound and have read a lot about sound pollution and the constant noise that surrounds...
Read MoreIf you think it’s broken, it’s broken.
I want this to be the first post in the This Is Broken category. To understand it, see Seth Godin’s fabulous talk on things that are broken. Also available here on TED Why are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk...
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