Saturday, January 30, 2021

Indian online store has to change its logo

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Myntra, one of India's largest and most popular online apparel and accessories stores, is having to change its logo , after successful c...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Species migration and what makes an invasive species

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As I have mentioned, I have been enjoying  The Next Great Migration  by Sonia Shah . And the book continues to surprise me. After blowing up...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Blackberry renaissance conjured out of nothing (or possibly an EV bubble)

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Remember Blackberry? Clunky black keyboard-based cellphone company that was once the darling of Canada's tech industry? Well, Blackberry...

Signs of (tentative) political evolution in Alberta

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Alberta's Conservative Premier Jason Kenney claims to have been completely blindsided by Joe Biden's executive order to cancel the K...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Canada's home-grown vaccines

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Well, who knew? Canada is in the process of producing its own home-grown COVID-19 vaccine . In a week when Pfizer reneges on its vaccine del...

Carl Linnaeus, Father of Modern Racism and general creep

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I have mentioned before that I am reading, and enjoying,  The Next Great Migration  by Sonia Shah . In Chapter 3, she takes a bit of a detou...

So, which masks ARE considered effective these days?

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I notice that France has now officially banned most homemade cloth masks from being used in public  on the grounds that they are no longer c...
Monday, January 25, 2021

How the right-wing routinely misrepresents immigrants

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I have started reading The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah , subtitled (and it seems like ALL non-fiction books these days HAVE to have ...