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University of Western Ontario Is One of Only Twenty Universities Worldwide To Get Top Rating (And Only One in Canada)

I really thought my attending the University of Western Ontario might drag the rating down – yes, even nearly two decade later. But luckily UWO is still an extremely prestigious University even if they allow pretenders like myself to darken their halls. 😉

¶ Posted 13 June 2023 § Humour § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario

Secular Sunday – “The most unthinking among us…who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

¶ Posted 11 June 2023 § Censorship § Internet § Library § Politics § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history, science

Introducing Apple Vision Pro

My Apple stocks are either going to sky rocket or crash hard on this news! 😉 If your promotional video is indistinguishable from something you'd see in a particularly dystopian episode of Black Mirror, maybe time to reconsider? https://t.co/6E2gn4gwTC — stephensben at bluesky (@stephens_ben) June 5, 2023

¶ Posted 06 June 2023 § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, google, science

Secular Sunday – The Original Drag Queen Storytime?

¶ Posted 04 June 2023 § Humour § Library § Politics § PopCulture § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history

Biggest Challenge: “We’re a small city with a relatively big stadium.”

Yes. This is quite the challenge we face here in our little prairie city that’s run by people who want to pretend we’re a much bigger city like Calgary or Edmonton or Winnipeg so they push to build giant state-of-the art arenas. And ball stadiums. And the best football stadium in the country while showing […]

¶ Posted 16 May 2023 § MemoryLane § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, saskatchewan, sports

Music Monday – “We’ve come so far and we’ve reached so high/And we’ve looked each day and night in the eye/And we’re still so young and we hope for more/But remember this…”

Howard Donald (55) is the oldest member of Take That who performed as a trio at the Coronation Concert yet with his shaggy haircut and grey beard, he is the one I resemble the most. Hell, even their slow-mo dance steps are a far cry from their energetic boy band routines in the mid-1990s in […]

¶ Posted 08 May 2023 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Secular Sunday – “Indiana public librarians forced to remove half the books in the teen section as demanded by unelected library board including a pro-book banning pastor”

Just as we watched drug poisonings and Narcan training spread across American libraries before becoming more common in Canada, I suspect religiously-motivated book banning requests (and religious board members being even more activist in trying to direct library’s directions, not just individual books) is the next thing American libraries will export to Canada. (via r/atheism)

¶ Posted 07 May 2023 § Censorship § Library § MemoryLane § Politics § SecularSunday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, freedomtoreadweek, unitedstates

Lilly drug slows Alzheimer’s progression by 35 per cent in trial

As with cancer drugs and other research breakthroughs that sound promising, there are lots of times that exciting results come to nothing. But it still boggles my mind at how amazing science is to make those advances in the first place. My grandma was never diagnosed with Alzheimer’s/dementia but had many signs of it near […]