This is beyond cool. I love Carl Sagan and how he puts life into proper perspective… http://vimeo.com/22582065
Lots of cool answers in this AskReddit question… There are perfectly nice, reasonable, intelligent people who disagree with my political opinions. You can get from North Korea to Finland by going through one country. That if you don’t have a kid, you’re the first one since your ancestral line started [edit: not just human line […]
Saskatchewan Naval Commander Helps Drug Bust Victoria Divita, only the fourth woman in history to command a Canadian Naval vessel, is from Indian Head. I grew up with Victoria (though I knew her as “Vickie”), she was in my sister’s grade, a couple years younger than me, and in fact, her older brother was best […]
Saskatchewan Legislature Re-created in Minecraft So today, Majong, the company formed around the hugely popular Minecraft video game, released the TU14 update for Minecraft on XBox360. If you’ve been living under a rock (or at least without an obsessed six year old in your house!), Minecraft is a “sandbox” game – basically, a game that […]
For the same reason we deny the existence of fire-breathing dragons.
I have an English degree so can’t help but notice that Pace went from “MEeeting” to “EsTablished” (which is the highest level in the school’s rating system) in English Language Arts between the first and second terms of Grade One. Shea has a degree in Nursing and I also noticed that his Health Education mark […]
On top of the recent news that by being excellent stewards of their country’s oil wealth, each Norway citizen was now a “millionaire”* (as opposed to some oil-rich jurisdictions that weren’t quite so successful in this regard), comes this story about the National Library of Norway finding a way to make copyrighted works available to […]
Man, we live in amazing times… 50 Things We Know Now That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year 10 Best Gadgets at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show The Future of Technology (Infographic) A Day with Google Glass… …and for a reminder of how far we’ve come… 10 Most Influential Software Packages of All-Time
I got Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” as a Christmas gift and just finished it. That inspired me to revisit some of the videos he made on the International Space Station. How cool is this one? (And am I the only one who wonders how they ensure the little bubbles of […]
I know my Atheist Advent series of technically over but I’ll share one final video I had bookmarked that I thought addressed one specific issue really well, namely that a big part of the reason that human are religious is that we simply fail to grasp the time scales involved in things like evolution and […]
