Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Marci Ien's article does her cause no favours

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Marci Ien's op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail a couple of days ago (" The double standard of driving while black - in Canada ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Can we please ban cellphones from Olympics ceremonies?

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I'm sure there is a case for banning cellphones from Olympic opening and closing ceremonies. Having just sat through another one, the cl...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Guns cause shootings, not people, after all

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After yet another mass school shooting , America is searching its soul once more about why it experiences so much gun violence. Despite inp...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

When is a Russian ban not a Russian ban?

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So, what in the end is the point of the IOC's ban of Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics, when there is a huge team attending it called...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Poland passes bewildering WW2 legislation

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In between shovelling an apparently endless succession of snowfalls, I have been trying to get my head around the controversial legislation ...

Why female Uber drivers earn less than men

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An analysis by ride-sharing service Uber of its own drivers has thrown up some interesting data. It seems that female Uber drivers earn on ...
Friday, February 09, 2018

The ethics of self-driving cars (revisited again)

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Pursuing the ongoing debate over the hoary problem of how to program autonomous cars ethically, a group of Italian researchers have proposed...
Thursday, February 08, 2018

Why are salsa jars so hard to open?

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Seems like it's not just me getting old and feeble, or at least only that - the interwebs are full of people who struggle to open jars, ...