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Category Archives: Culture
Hostile Architecture
I recently read an article about hostile architecture and began to wonder about my own city. I’d noticed the trend before in Winnipeg but foolishly, although I should have known better, I hadn’t viewed it as a movement. As our … Continue reading
Returning to an Earlier Moment in Our Life
A friend of mine says that if he could return to an earlier time in his life, knowing then what he knows now, his life would be vastly different. That is perhaps true of all of us, but he says … Continue reading
Go Pokémon Go
The Pokemon Go craze is relatively recent in Canada. In fact, the game is not really available in the country and those who are stumbling around on the city streets chasing ephemeral characters from a game have fudged their country … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, News, Singularity, Social Media
Tagged Oculus Rift, Pokemon Go
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Ancient Science at the Planetarium
Whenever we think about our ancestors we are inclined to imagine them as moronic, backward troglodytes, dragging their knuckles through lives as brutal and stunted as themselves. In our rather short-sighted and ungrateful vision, they do not hope to compare … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Peoples, Art, Astronomy, Culture, History, Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged ancient Greek mythology, Australian Aborigines, Constellations, Cro-Magnon, Freud, giant kangaroo, Glooscap, homo habilis, Lascaux Caves, megafauna, Neanderthal, Piltdown Man, planetarium, Pythagoras, Sunstones, The Dreaming, Theory of Relativity, Thylacoleo, Ursa Major
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Monkeys on the Internet
We have all become aware of bad behaviour online, and from that, we have learned that our neighbours, who we always guessed were tolerant, joyful, and open-minded, think quite differently than us. Given cause to reflect on our own public … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Superstition
Tagged 4chan, Ani DiFranco, big thinks, creationism, H. G. Wells, John Stuart Mill, reddit, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Utilitarianism
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Waiting for a Bus in Laos
When I went to Thailand in 2011 with my girlfriend we also visited Laos. We traveled the Mekong River by boat and upon landing in Luang Prabang we went back upriver to Pakbang, a village along the bank where we’d … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Journaling, Travel
Tagged Laos, Mekong River, Pakbang, South East Asia
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What I Learned in Graduate School
By the time students enter university they are not limited to learning from their professors. They still find information in the classroom, and can mine the textbooks for still more, but much of the learning is done by discussing ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Teaching
Tagged Education, Graduate School
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Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews
Posted in Culture, Post-Apocalyptic, Singularity, Writing
Tagged Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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The Bible is Perfect. No Wait, It’s Not
Many Christians trouble themselves over whether the bible, the book they rely on for so much of their understanding of both the physical and spiritual the world, is perfect and the writing of god, or whether it is flawed and … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Peoples, Culture, History, Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged Atheism, bible, Christianity, Church in School, Council at Nicaea, fanaticism, Historical Jesus, inconsistencies in the bible, Notastampcollector
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