Autumn in VicWest
It’s time to see the salmon.
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…
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
Map of earthquake liquefaction risks around Victoria
My father recently sent me these amazing resources about various risks due to earthquake around Victoria.…
Cognition trick: the Google Effect
We’ve developed a habit of forgetting, or declining to remember, the information that is readily available…
Archiving and curation
When we stare at paradoxes long enough, they can sometimes lose their mystery. When this happens…
Martin Speckter, type design, and the interrobang
99% Invisible did an episode on the interrobang recently. I was interested to learn that early…
The stickiness of so-called “reverse racism”
When an idea is “intuitive” but also steeped in a culture war we have a heightened…
Guidelines on using a pie chart
This is a question that comes up from time to time regarding knowledge transfer in reports…