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That’s too big!
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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...
Life after death
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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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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...
Multi-touch screen will soon be obsolete
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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...
Bruises, blood and welts
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Dearest David Lynch
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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...
‘Let the wild rumpus begin’
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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...
