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Swearing Is Actually A Sign of More Intelligence – Not Less – Say Scientists

I am a huge fan of scientific knowledge that help justify my potty mouth! (And my kids are clearly geniuses as they named their band, “The Shits”!) 😉

¶ Posted 28 September 2022 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, education, freedomtoreadweek, language

A Few Recent Covid Threads

Even though “Covid Is Over”™ according to many, it’s not really. Far from it actually… Britain is being swamped by yet another Covid wave — 2% in England are currently infected, 1 in 30 in Scotland: 1.4 million people in the UK, a stark 40% week-on-week rise in prevalence. Hospitalisations highest since April https://t.co/hFiriFHY3r — […]

¶ Posted 22 June 2022 § News § Politics § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, science

TED Talk – Sleep Is Your Super Power

¶ Posted 15 June 2022 § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: health, science

Secular Sunday – What’s The Oldest Religion in the World?

I mean, humans have been making up gods to worship, probably since their brains were capable of such a thing, but I believe this short clip is talking about which is the oldest of the current major world religions…

¶ Posted 12 June 2022 § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history, philosophy, travel

Secular Sunday – Back when the Bible was written…

¶ Posted 29 May 2022 § Humour § Infographic § Meme § PopCulture § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, book, history, language

Secular Sunday – Losing My Religion: The Pandemic Is Causing Many To Lose Faith In God

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/faith-religion-god-declined-pandemic-study/

¶ Posted 22 May 2022 § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, science

The New Corporation – Documentary

It was pretty cool to go to the world premier of an anti-corporate documentary called “The Corporation” at the Calgary International Film Festival twenty years ago which featured a Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening. It’s less cool that this film has an “unfortunately necessarily” sequel released a couple years ago…

¶ Posted 11 May 2022 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, education

Secular Sunday – Are Humans Hardwired To Believe in Religions?

A response to a question about “Will Religion Ever Disappear?” in an atheist sub on Reddit explains why humans are hardwired to believe in religion in the first place.

¶ Posted 08 May 2022 § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history

A Moment With Margaret Atwood: Three Inspirations for “The Handmaid’s Tale”

“I did not put anything into the book that had not happened [to women] at some time or in some place in history or was not happening when I was writing the book. So it was all reality-based and one reason I did that is I did not want to hear ‘You’ve got a warped, […]

¶ Posted 04 May 2022 § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, health, history, language

Saturday Snap – Supper With Friends (and Some Thoughts on the World We’re Living In)

Shea and I went for supper with some friends on Friday night and it was good to catch up, compare notes, and have a few laughs after not having done a restaurant meal with people who we’d normally go out with a few times per year before Covid. (We have done virtual happy hours/outside visits/potlucks […]