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That’s too big!

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Leif Larsen
Arabic numerals, which are what we here in Canada and the scientific community at large use to represent numbers, were a huge advancement over the roman numerals they replaced. Need proof? Try doing long...
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Life after death

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Damian Purdy
Whoa, you just died. Nice one. Only a moment ago, there you were — alive, lying in bed, in a clean, white room. Your family was standing all around you, vaguely bored. It looked...
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Browsing for web browsers

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Leif Larsen
Back when I was a kid, there were only two kinds of peanut butter on the shelf — chunky and smooth — a handful of ice cream flavors and fewer television channels than I...
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Multi-touch screen will soon be obsolete

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Jonathan Gaudet
How often have you wished that your coffee table doubled as a musical instrument? If your answer was “all the time,” I have good news for you: computer science graduate students at the U...
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Bruises, blood and welts

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Leah Werier
A screen-shot of an electronic waiver is displayed. It allows a viewer to state, with a click of a mouse, that he or she is of legal age and consents to viewing whatever material...
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Dearest David Lynch

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Ben Clarkson
Dearest David Lynch, I write this letter to you as a concerned and interested fan. I have been following your work for as long as I can remember. Blue Velvet blew my mind. Mulholland Drive...
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‘Let the wild rumpus begin’

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Leah Werier
In only 10 sentences Maurice Sendak crafted a story involving adventure, mischief and — most of all — partying. Where the Wild Things Are, already one of the best-known picture books, was recently given...

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