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The History of the World Trade Center (Documentary)

Secular Sunday – Religion Is Increasingly Seen As Doing More Harm Than Good By Canadians

Even as an atheist, I’m pretty surprised that over half of the respondents to this survey said that religion is doing more harm than good in the world, up from 44% in 2011.

¶ Posted 09 September 2018 § Canada § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, education

Friday Fun Link – Turns Out Women Are Way Dirtier Between The Sheets Than Men

If you don’t read this article, here’s the twist to that provocative headline… 😉 New research into how often men and women respectively clean their sheets has found that us ladies are lagging behind in this department.

¶ Posted 07 September 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health

Inside A Google Data Center

¶ Posted 28 August 2018 § Internet § Jobs § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics

I’ll Just Leave This Here Redux…

I am *not* having a good August – the tooth ache I had last weekend hurt *way* worse than breaking my wrist and led to some quality time in my dentist’s chair today. 🙁

¶ Posted 14 August 2018 § Jobs § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health

I’ll Just Leave This Here…

¶ Posted 31 July 2018 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: health, youtube

Secular Sunday – An Atheist Goes To A Funeral…

A few years ago, someone I know lost her younger sibling unexpectedly. I can’t remember how old he was but maybe mid-20s? In her grief, she approached me and said “You’re an atheist, right? How do you deal with loss without believing in God?” It was a tough question – not because I didn’t know […]

¶ Posted 08 July 2018 § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism

Carnival Scam Science

I wish I’d watched this video before we took the kids to a local carnival a couple weeks ago. I’ve always known the games were rigged towards the operator and had a general sense of how they are – mostly by playing with the size and shape of the game pieces – smaller rims, longer […]

¶ Posted 26 June 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

#yqr Toilet A Top Tourist Attraction

There was a time, shortly after I graduated from my MLIS program, where I seriously thought about putting together a presentation about the importance of the public washrooms in libraries – from making the entire library as a welcoming space for the widest variety of people to being a great way to promote programs to […]

¶ Posted 13 June 2018 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: economics, education, health, saskatchewan

Yanny vs. Laurel: Meme of the Year?

What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I — Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) May 15, 2018 Is anybody talking about anything else today? First of all, the clip is, according to Sanker “not prototypical” of either laurel or yanny. It’s somewhere in the middle. Sanker said the l/y discrepancy might come from the fact that the sound there isn’t velarized—the speaker’s tongue […]