Tag Archives: health

Reasons To Go Back to School / Reasons Not To Go Back To School

  Regina Public Schools to return to in-class learning on May 3, 2021. https://t.co/YZayV5QOJv pic.twitter.com/OHaAUGGPED — Regina Public Schools (@RegPublicSchool) April 26, 2021 Regina Public Schools has announced that students will return to school on May 3 and there is lots of debate on social media and elsewhere about the decision. Five Reasons It’s Good […]

It’s Not Music Monday…

…but it’s 4/20 so that makes it Toke Tuesday, right? 😉

Secular Sunday – The Dangers of Religious Misinformation Around Covid Vaccines

Saturday Snap – Obligatory “I Got Vaccinated” Pic

Good timing too as they just announced that Regina’s drive-thru vaccination clinic will be shut down for a couple weeks due to vaccine shortages.

Friday Fun Link – The Big Library: Books About Basic Income

This idea is growing in awareness and after the rush to create CERB a year ago, more and more people are seeing the benefit of some form of a universal guaranteed income. This is a great list of books to learn more about different aspects of the idea.

Music Monday – “Do you call it as you see it and you’ve always been that way?/Are you reminiscent of how things were back in the day?/Are you agitated with the young’uns always wanting change?/Well here’s your invite to a group of folks like you and me”

“Support Local” takes many forms.  With the lack of live music, why not support a local musician or band by buying their songs (especially a timely one like this one which also has a great video!)   “Pity Party – Blake Berglund

Appalachian Man Interview – Elmer

“Soft White Underbelly” is a fascinating interview series on YouTube…

I Did Not Wake Up Expecting To Do A Covid Test Today…

…but my RN wife brought home a box of rapid tests as some healthcare staff are being encouraged to test themselves regularly to help catch Covid before it can spread in the hospital. Since they were also allowed to test family members, I got to be the guinea pig for her first “at home” test […]

Saturday Snap – Triple Masking = Max Covid Protection?

I was talking to the kids about possibly double-masking as an added precaution and Sasha decided to take it a step further with three masks (which she didn’t end up wearing, mostly because she ran out of ear to hook the straps on!) And it didn’t last long as we made the decision to pull […]

Exponential Growth: A Commonsense Explanation

When something is going through exponential growth, even in the early stages, most people completely underestimate how quickly things are going to change, even when the exponential growth has been going on for quite a while. Some humans are really bad at understanding math.