Wednesday, September 29, 2021

The day of the "peep peep peep" reversing alarm is over

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Every morning I wake up to the "peep peep peep" sound of reversing alarms from the construction machinery just up the street. It...
Monday, September 27, 2021

The Ryder Cup: an embarrassment or a celebration of macho culture?

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I don't know much about golf, and I've never knowingly watched a match, even on television. I've never seen the point in whackin...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

German Word of the Day - Merkel-Raute (Merkel rhombus)

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 Named after the rhomboid hand clasp that Angela Merkel has long favoured: She (and it) will be missed.
Saturday, September 25, 2021

China enters a new phase where optics are no longer important

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The release of Canada's two Michaels at the exact time that Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was released from her house arrest and flew home to ...

How do the Liberals manage to win elections but lose the popular vote?

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Canada's "election that changed nothing" is over, and the new government is almost identical to the old government . Failed cy...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Suicide rate unexpectedly plummeted during the pandemic

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Well, here's a surprise. We have been hearing ad nauseum from mental health experts over the last year or two that the COVID-19 pandemi...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

The irony! - a shortage of carbon dioxide

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In a world that is seemingly awash in carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), and is desperately trying to reduce the amount of CO 2  produced by modern hum...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Reducing polling stations "due to COVID" makes no sense

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We voted the other day, not at our usual polling station, but at another one further away. It was pretty busy, considering this was advance ...