… Spore is not an evolution simulator. Not even close. It has a lot of good things going for it, and the fact that it doesn’t in any way simulate evolution did not detract me from spending eight hours with it on Saturday. But it is not evolution.
In fact, if [...]

And if you were one of those chicken littles, running about broadcasting insane claims about and impending end of the world due to a physics experiment in Switzerland, for shame. Don’t be messing with quantum physics. It’ll mess with you.
I did recently read Flashforward by Robert J Sawyer which is definitely recommended. And [...]

If one ever needs a reminder of the sad state of medical and science reporting in the modern media, one can often just turn on the television and witness a lemming-like approach to sensational news stories. This morning, for example, after Karin and I watched last night’s The National (CBC) report on a new [...]

It was all over the news yesterday that WE’RE KILLING OUR BABIES WITH SHAMPOO! Chemical leach through their precious skin and melt their reproductive organs. It’s the end of the world. It will be just like that movie Children of Men and it’s all due to us and our fascination with… AHHHHH!
Take a [...]

December 6
Claire was finally vaccinated this afternoon. I say finally because not only is it about two weeks past the ideal two-month date when she was supposed to receive them, but originally she had been signed up to participate in a scientific vaccination study for a new broader-coverage vaccine — she made the short-list, [...]

I was enjoying our new receiver last night. It comes across as quite droll, I’m sure, but — apart from my car — I haven’t had good access to a high quality radio in years. The AM band still holds a certain randomized mystique of you-never-know what you’ll hear kind-of pleasure. Click [...]