Friday, March 06, 2020

I can understand panic buying, but why toilet paper?

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My sister-in-law recently sent us a picture of a completely empty toilet paper aisle in her local supermarket in New York, and my first thou...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

Fatalities from COVID-19 overwhelmingly among the elderly

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I heard yesterday that the average age of South Koreans who have died from the COVID-19 coronavirus is around 80, so I got to wondering abou...
Wednesday, March 04, 2020

The absurdity of the Buffalo Declaration

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A bunch of four Alberta Conservative MPs have issued a document they are calling, a little over-dramatically, the Buffalo Declaration . It w...

Coronavirus outbreak is making people seriously question globalization

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We are all (well, all North Americans and Europeans at least) used to being able to obtain pretty much anything from anywhere in the world a...

We touch our faces 23 times an hour - we're doomed!

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The latest information on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease suggests that it is probably spread person-to-person b...
Friday, February 28, 2020

"Dord" really should be a word

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But it's not. "Dord" did, however, find its way into the 1934 edition of Merriam's  New International Dictionary , where ...

Discharged gay art teacher wins $100,000 settlement

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Stacy Bailey, a Texas art teacher, twice voted teacher of the year, was put on "administrative leave" (i.e. temporarily laid off, ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Scotland first to provide free sanitary products for women

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Today, Scotland became the first country to make feminine menstrual products like tampons and sanitary pads absolutely free . In a move tha...