Category: Wisdom

A Tale of Two #skndpldr MLA’s

I’m not going to editorialize too much in this post. But I will say that I found it very revealing to see how the two MLA’s in the

@ryanMeili Monday – What Role, If Any, Does Family Play in the #skndpldr Race?

I hope everyone had a Happy Family Day (as brought to you by the Sask NDP in 2007…although to be fair, the original and longest-standing Family Day in

Conception to Birth Visualized

Other than the fact that the scientist presenting this TED talk should know better than to hint that the complexity of human evolution as being so amazing that

Friday Fun (?) Link – What Would It Feel Like For A Man To Be In Labour?

Shea kindly sent me this video of a couple young Dutch men who volunteered to have electrodes put on their abdomen to simulate the increasingly painful contractions of

Top 10 Things I Use As A Bookmark

A discussion on Reddit about who uses dust jacket flaps as bookmarks leads to all kinds of other related anecdotes… English Prof here: Want a great way to

RIP Aaron Swartz (1986 – 2013)

There are two kinds of Internet celebrities – those who get famous for something they did online (anyone from Justin Bieber to Psy to Paris Hilton and so

@ryanMeili Monday – The Most Important Endorsement? #skndpldr

Trent Wotherspoon got the endorsement of a trio Manitoba MLA’s today, Cam Broten posted one from a retired Director of Education and Ryan Meili got what could be

The NHL’s Back But Hockey Never Left

I know it’s a Tim Hortons commercial designed to tug the heart strings but it does a good job of summarizing why hockey is so important in the

“Literacy Privilege: How I Learned To Check Mine Instead of Making Fun of People’s Grammar on the Internet”

Got involved in a discussion today which led to this article about a repentant “Grammar Nazi” who realised that her judging of people who had bad spelling and

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