The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him | Science | The Guardian
If I had a child, I would never let him/her play tackle football ...
Monday, July 25, 2011
The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him | Science | The Guardian
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out - CBS News
Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out - CBS News
VERY interesting article about the HPV vaccine.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Suzuki warns Tory scheme to cancel green energy plans is ‘absolute insanity’ - thestar.com
Suzuki warns Tory scheme to cancel green energy plans is ‘absolute insanity’ - thestar.com
Something to think about while we're in the throes of Thermageddon ...
Monday, July 18, 2011
Why I quit my job: « Kai Nagata
A journalist's Jerry Maguire moment. Awesome. Why I quit my job: « Kai Nagata
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
“Arrival of the Fittest” by Rachel Giese | The Walrus | June 2011
“Arrival of the Fittest” by Rachel Giese | The Walrus | June 2011
In addition to finding out whether their teenage respondents were getting into trouble, the researchers also asked them about their values, habits, and temperaments. Do you talk to your mother about your feelings? Do you finish your homework? Do you like to take chances? What ultimately set the first generation kids apart were three important protective factors against delinquency: strong family bonds, commitment to education, and aversion to risk. What’s more, these three qualities acted in a kind of feedback loop: the kids who regularly did their homework were also the kids who admired and confided in their parents, and were also the kids who shied away from troublemaking behaviour.
Dinovitzer stresses that these qualities would deter any young person from engaging in crime, whatever their ethnicity or immigration status. It’s just that first generation immigrants — again, across ethnic lines — tend to possess these traits to a greater extent than their peers do. And that makes sense: the traits required for a person to leave behind all that’s familiar and take a chance on making it in a new country — ambition, resilience, perseverance, imagination, optimism — are conducive to the rearing of successful children; those children, in turn, naturally feel an obligation to their self-sacrificing parents. “The kids said they didn’t want to let their parents down,” Levi says. “Their parents had suffered to get here, so they owed it to them to succeed.”
Sunday, May 22, 2011
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF
"Worst" analogies found in high school papers.
Some of them are brilliantly funny. ;->
Thursday, May 19, 2011
This one’s for the birds - Life - Macleans.ca
I used to do patrols for birds before school took over my life. This is a fascinating article on legal steps that are being taken to try to hold landlords accountable for so many killed birds (some of them endangered!)
This one’s for the birds - Life - Macleans.ca
Monday, May 16, 2011
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
'Growing up bin Laden' Book: Osama's son Omar Speaks - TIME
'Growing up bin Laden - Book: Osama's son Omar Speaks - TIME
Intelligence agencies and scholars of extremist movements might do well to pay attention to Omar's al-Qaeda childhood for clues about how to inoculate young people against radicalism. His remarkable achievement — to have maintained humane beliefs despite being pulled from school at the age of 12 and exposed to a near constant deluge of hateful propaganda, isolation and family pressure — seems to have been helped by a love of animals. A constant collector of pets — against his father's wishes — and an avid horseman, Omar's awareness of the madness of al-Qaeda was fueled in part by several acts of animal cruelty by his father's men.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Dear Globe and Mail
Dear Globe and Mail
A wonderful response to the Globe and Mail's editorial endorsing Harper for PM.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Royal wedding: Does Kate Middleton really want to marry into a family like this? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Royal wedding: Does Kate Middleton really want to marry into a family like this? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
I can't argue with anything Hitchens writes here, but I still hope for the best for these two. It helps that I don't watch TV news.
An Open Letter to Stephen Harper
An Open Letter to Stephen Harper: "Nowhere is your mastery of fiction more evident than in your decision to run on your economic record when you don’t actually have one. Smart of you to take credit for Canada’s financial stability in the current global recession when it was exactly neoconservative policies like yours that unraveled the economy south of the border, and shamefacedly socialist ones, put in place before your party even existed, that protected our own. (I don’t know if you remember, for instance, a certain Liberal decision back in 1998 to pull the plug on some major bank mergers.)"
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