My cell phone carrier has stopped spamming me
My local gym and community centre is awesome. It’s a little less than three kilometres from…
Happy Halloween
Halloween in Vicwest is quiet but nice. Some great costumes on the street last night and…
Hyperlinking in Canadian journalism (Case study, IPBES report)
If news orgs are serious about being good partners in mitigating misinformation, they need to link…
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
The stickiness of so-called “reverse racism”
When an idea is “intuitive” but also steeped in a culture war we have a heightened…
Map of earthquake liquefaction risks around Victoria
My father recently sent me these amazing resources about various risks due to earthquake around Victoria.…
Reality testing: measuring the long term impact of journalism
When Margaret Wente was getting busted repeatedly for plagiarizing, her publisher, The Globe and Mail, more…
Style guides, notes on “jihad”
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