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Wisdom Wednesday – The Emphatic Civilisation

This great video makes the case that we haven’t evolved to compete with each other but to empathize with one another. I especially like how it builds the case of how our strongest connections grew from family relationships to tribes to religion-as-extended-family to nation-states-as-extended-family to the natural next step to a worldwide unity of purpose, […]

¶ Posted 03 August 2011 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: atheism, cool, health, history

Alberta’s Got Gas and Sask’s Got a Pharm!

I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail. This book came to my attention after winning a 2009 National Business Book Prize and, as you might expect given its title and author, it’s a fairly pro-business look at […]

¶ Posted 28 July 2011 § Library § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: alberta, book, economics, health, history, saskatchewan, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – All Space Shuttle Missions In Eight Minutes

¶ Posted 22 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, history, unitedstates, weather

Newfoundland Trip – Whale Watching at Bonavista

¶ Posted 05 July 2011 § MemoryLane § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, holiday, travel

Google Charges Its R&D Team With Making Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Conventional…

…”within a few years.” So frackin‘ cool if it’s true!

¶ Posted 12 June 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, google, health

Friday Fun Link – Barley Buddy

Now this is social media I can get behind – tell the site which beers you prefer and it will make recommendations for your next brew!

¶ Posted 10 June 2011 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: cool

Saturday Snap – Katepwa Beach Flooding

With the amount of moisture we’ve had for the past couple winters and last summer as well, much of Saskatchewan is experiencing the worst flooding we’ve had in forty years. Katepwa Lake, north of Indian Head, where our family has a cottage is no exception. Last weekend, Shea, Pace and I were out to do […]

¶ Posted 07 May 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: parents, saskatchewan, weather

Resurrecting An Idea…

Last Christmas, I did a week-long series of posts exploring the topic of religion in general and my atheism specifically. One of my posts was about how, even though believers will give dozens of reasons why they are religious, from my perspective there were three main reasons I thought people actually were religious – whether […]

¶ Posted 24 April 2011 § Randomness ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: atheism, history, holiday

Saturday Snap – The World’s Most Boring Privacy Violation

It’s just come out that the iPhone creates a secret file on user’s computers without their knowledge or permission which has a record of their geo-location information. Unsurprisingly, this has privacy advocates up in arms. Jessamyn West wrote about this and linked to a small app you can download which can help you visualize what […]

¶ Posted 23 April 2011 § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Sex on a First Date to Long Term Prospects, A Dating Site Knows All?

Dating site, OKCupid, has a really interesting blog where they draw on their massive data pool from site members profiles and interactions to come up with some revealing information.