On Bastille Day in France, and in the wake of the assassination of Karzai’s brother in Afghanistan, Julia McLean takes a look at revolutions and their aftermaths.
Medicine from My Garden
Julia McLean enjoys her garden for its beauty, but also for the many medicinal remedies she discovers there, some of them known as far back as the days of Roman gladiators.
Travelling Canada: Destinations Bizarre and Beautiful
Ancient crypts, sci-fi towns, roof-top goats? George Burden takes stock of some of Canada’s most bizarre and beautiful tourist draws.
Texting Arguments
Phyllis Wilson explores how texting can help us communicate better — and how it sometimes creates arguments filled with ANGER and #@$%?!. How can we communicate better in a text-based world?
The Trouble With Living Overly Busy Lives
Do you only feel worthwhile when you are busy doing something? What is your busyness really doing to you?
Tour de France Sparks My Yearly Love Affair With Cycling
Once a year, Joshua S. Hill’s sleeping pattern is utterly dedicated to the greatest sporting event in the world: the Tour de France.
Recipe for Raising Chickens
At age 86 and on her deathbed, Minnie Rose Lovgreen dictated a lifetime of sage advice to her neighbour on raising chickens for eggs. As cities across North America debate whether or not to allow chicken coops within city limits, Minnie’s book offers charming common-sense instruction in how easy and rewarding it is to keep laying hens anywhere.
Dog Training? Who’s Training Who?
Humans like the affection of dogs. We find it reinforcing when they come to us for petting and attention. Once they find something that annoys us, they can be masters at using it to get us to do things in order get them to stop doing it. It’s cause and effect, consequences dictating behaviour. And they know it. As Jean Donaldson put it in her book Culture Clash, “Dogs do what works.”
What Causes a Person to Be Intentionally Cruel?
What causes a person to be intentionally cruel? Is it carelessness? A genetic predisposition involving a lack of empathy? A lack of proper nurturing? A culturally indoctrinated tendency? Mary Rose searches for answers.
WikiLeaks’ Spoofs MasterCard Commercial
Here’s a great Wikileaks-supportive parody on the fact that major credit card and online payment companies have withheld over $15 million in donations to WikiLeaks.
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