The single socks club
Whatever happens to the socks that get left behind? One day they are part of a pair, and then the next, one goes missing. Lost…
2010
The Reunion
Coerced by fear, I was told to appear naked before My sovereign broham, and his willing peers. “If you don’t like it, find another way…
Fried Brains and Sam:
When last we left Sam, he was under house arrest, plotting to end his contract in Heaven by destroying physical reality. Tied to my chair,…
The habit of hoarding
The doors have been opened to the secret lives of hoarders and as we look inside we see the piles of garbage, trails made through…
Local filmmaker courts controversy with “Zooey and Adam”
When asked if he anticipated the controversy surrounding his new film, Zooey and Adam, filmmaker Sean Garrity’s answer was fairly clear: “I had no idea!”…
Zoological Investigations VIII
Ever wake up in the morning and just ask yourself, “Why?” This volunteer science writer does not profess to have all the answers to that…
A critical analysis of facilitated communication
The use of facilitated communication (FC) on Rom Houben, a 46-year old Belgian car crash victim, contributed to his recent diagnostic change from being in…
Quantum computing
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Byron Southern, a theoretical physicist and professor of quantum mechanics at the University of Manitoba. With a…
Math 4 Life
Few words carry such cultural stigma as “mathematics.” We associate being good at math with an intellectual feat and think of math as some abstract…
So Bad it’s Good
In both fetish and fantasy, the “bad girl” is deviant, overtly sexual and dangerous. She is the one of temptresses of the Bible (Salome and…