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The People’s Calendar: When Does Each Season Start?

Interesting survey about the different markers – natural, manmade, etc. – that people use to connote the change of seasons. For me, I know the “official” dates for season changes but my (very limited) list probably goes like this… Spring – whenever snow is almost fully melted Summer – when school’s out at end of […]

¶ Posted 30 November 2021 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, weather

The Conspiracy Chart

¶ Posted 24 November 2021 § Internet § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health, history, reddit, science

Friday Fun Link – Know Rivalry

Know Rivalry is a research project from an American university where you can enter your thoughts and impressions about whoever you feel your favourite sports team(s) greatest rivals are then see results from other fans of the same team *and* your rivals’ team to see if they feel the same way about your team.

¶ Posted 14 May 2021 § FridayFunLink § Internet § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey, sports

Friday Fun Link – “Year of Covid” Bingo Card

We’ve been at this for over a year so I thought I’d make a bingo card to capture some of the most common shared experiences many of us have had during the past year or so. I got a full bingo (but I also made the card so that probably helped!) ;-).

¶ Posted 07 May 2021 § FridayFunLink § Humour § List § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health

Secular Sunday – The Cost of Religion in Canada

A nice confluence of events with it being Easter, me completing my taxes, and the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) releasing a report on the status of churches as charities.

¶ Posted 04 April 2021 § Canada § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, economics, education, history, science

Leadership

¶ Posted 23 March 2021 § Jobs § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, philosophy, saskatchewan

Toxic Positivity

I saw this in the context of someone dealing with cancer but I can think of lots of other situations – workplaces, volunteer organizations, schools, families, life during Covid in general – where everyone is encouraged to act as if everything is good and positive and happy instead of acknowledging that things might be less […]

¶ Posted 03 February 2021 § Meme § Shea § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, philosophy

#Covidiot Tuesday – The Pyramid of Intellect

I’ve got Music Monday, Throwback Thursday, Friday Fun Link, Saturday Snap and occasionally Secular Sunday but maybe now it’s time for another recurring post idea – #Covidiot Tuesday – since the anti-maskers seem to keep believing and sharing all the same old discredited information…

¶ Posted 01 December 2020 § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, history, science

Evolution of Covid-19 Case Numbers in Canadian Provinces

This is a good video but guilty of one of my biggest pet peeves of the data analysis of this entire pandemic – not using per capita numbers as a comparator. Without taking into account per capita numbers and barring some notable outliers (hello Alberta!), of course the most populous provinces are going to be […]

¶ Posted 16 June 2020 § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, science

The Economic Impacts of Covid-19

This is a British article but many of the findings are going to apply for countries around the world – from increased unemployment to reduced airline traffic to positive environmental impacts and more.