Home » 2011Posted by John Malloy on 12/29/2011
You've been lied to. Or, at the very least, misled. It's simply not true that everything you need to know about life you learned in Kindergarten. Because I remember Kindergarten. And as much as I loved Mrs. Peerless's class, even after completing her rigorous academic curriculum, the 5-year-old me still thought of the other [...]
12/29/2011Read More
Simon Fraser University researchers in biology and computing sciences are starting to piece together a picture that may help scientists and doctors save more than a million lives annually. These lives — mostly children in developing countries like Africa — are claimed by two of 200 known species of malaria parasites carried by mosquitoes. [...]
12/21/2011Read More
Loneliness has been a constant companion in my life. I laugh when I read the news articles which try to say that people with Asperger’s “have no desire for human companionship.” I can’t speak for all — it may be true of some, but it has certainly not been true for me. It can feel [...]
12/21/2011Read More
You’ve heard the old excuse before: Healthy eating is expensive. I can confidently call my food choices healthy—at least most of the time—but I’m also a cheapskate at heart. Luckily, I manage to eat healthy on a budget, thanks to a few simple swaps—some of which save calories, too! Smart swap: Frozen berries Fresh [...]
12/21/2011Read More
We spend a lot of time thinking about what is NOT happening, contemplating events that occurred in the past or that might happen in the future. Indeed, this sort of “mind-wandering” is thought to be the default operating mode of our brains. Although being able to think about what isn’t going on around us [...]
12/14/2011Read More
Few of us ever stop to ask one of the most basic questions about the Universe: Where is it? The answer can help us understand the structure of nature and rid the mind of useless things.To do so requires us to deviate from conventional thinking. Were taught since childhood that the universe can be [...]
12/12/2011Read More
KYUSHU and Kansai, Japan’s two most nuclear-dependent regions, are bracing for a bitter winter. Citizens of both areas, many of them elderly, have been advised that they may have to turn down the heating because of shortages of nuclear power. It will be another hardship in an already trying year; after the March 11th [...]
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Think of how Einstein changed our understanding of time and space by imagining people going to the center of time in order to freeze their lovers or their children in century-long embraces. This space he imagined is clearly reminiscent of a black hole, where, theoretically, gravity would stop time. Einstein also imagined [...]
12/12/2011Read More
Although I know many people do, I generally don’t plan out a week’s worth of dinners in advance. Which means that sometimes eating gets a bit ad hoc around here. Like last week for instance. Somehow it didn’t occur to me until Thursday that I’d made something with rice every single night. On [...]
12/09/2011Read More
The drama is building over European leaders’ continued inability to solve the debt crisis that threatens to explode the euro zone. Today, the leaders of the 17 countries that use the currency, along with others that are part of the European Union, are meeting to approve yet another Grand Plan. At least [...]
12/09/2011Read More
FEATURING THE JOHNNY MAX BAND/ DECEMBER 18, 2011, 3-6:PM The Casbah Club, 18 Huron Street, Collingwood Singer/songwriter, performer, Juno and Maple Blues Award nominee Johnny Max and his Band will be rockin’ The Casbah, 18 Huron St. Collingwood, December 18, 3pm to 6pm for the 2nd Annual Collingwood Jazz & Blues Society’s Christmas Blues [...]
