Saturday, January 05, 2019

If you worry about privacy, digital assistants may not be for you

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Several friends now these so-called digital assistants (or voice assistants or virtual assistants or just smart devices), such as Amazon Ech...
Friday, January 04, 2019

Indian fundamentalist Hindus giving religion a bad name ... again

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India and Hinduism are in the news again for all the wrong reasons. Long gone are any images of gentle, vegetarian peaceniks - India under t...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

Ultima Thule, a "flying interplanetary snowman"

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As NASA's New Horizons probe continues its epic journey through and beyond the solar system, its encounter with a planetoid labelled Ult...
Wednesday, January 02, 2019

It is not OK for chiropractors to claim they can prevent or cure cancer

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It looks like something MAY finally get done about regulating the chiropractic profession in Ontario . Complaints are flooding in, not only ...

Yakhchal? What's a yakhchal?

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A new year is upon us, and regular readers (ah, if only there were such a thing...) will be fascinated to know that I am starting to use a n...
Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Religion has no place in the legal definition of death

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It's difficult to believe that we are still debating the legal point of death in this day and age, but apparently we are. The issue has ...

Ontario gas price fall no thanks to Doug Ford

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In a move straight out of Donald Trump's playbook, Doug Ford and his merry band of Ontario Conservatives are pushing the limits of truth...

Told ya! - bitcoin: bubble

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Way back in April 2017, I made an unapologetic prediction that the burgeoning bitcoin market, which was just getting going then, was a bubbl...