Stop Harper’s Conservatives from bringing Canada into the TPP. It’s bad for copyright & intellectual liberty. Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership draft would force Canada to rework copyright, critics say ... continue reading

This just passed overhead. As the thunder boomed my son awake, he faulted “that superhero guy” (meaning Thor). ... continue reading

Now we need bumblebee movers. Climate change is killing off bumblebees: study ... continue reading

Interview with Piketty offers straightforward and rational points. Thomas Piketty: ‘Germany Has Never Repaid its Debts. It Has No Right to Lecture Greece’ ... continue reading

Support fair pricing for library ebooks #FairEbookPrices Fair EBook Prices Long Overdue for Libraries ... continue reading

Could we do without cause and effect? –“ Mathias Frisch –“ Aeon ... continue reading

There’s a good point in this article about the amount of work required for inventorying millions of items. I feel like there are things that could be done to alleviate that difficulty somewhat but I suppose that’d require a bit of money and resources that are unlikely to be easily attained. Libraries And Cities Are Terrible At Keeping Track of Art ... continue reading

It’s Bloomsday! http://bloomsdaymontreal.com This letter from Jung to Joyce is pretty amusing. Carl Jung’s Delightfully Disgruntled Review of Ulysses and His Letter to James Joyce ... continue reading

Look at the interesting collection of photos and documents being collected for International Archives Day. International Archives Day ... continue reading

Wellbeing indexes for countries are, in my view, a great improvement over measuring things like GDP. This new index is an interesting approach that looks at something else: how much each country contributes to our common good. This creates something very positive to strive for. The Good Country Index ... continue reading

Fascinating perspective on how to think about conflict between Russia and “Atlantic” states. It uses white/black and other terms in an unexpected way to show how much those limit our thinking. Superficially that’s obvious but this is not a superficial post. Is the Former Soviet Bloc ‘White’? ... continue reading

The Conservative government needs to stop its damaging approach to science. Steve Campana, Canadian biologist, ‘disgusted’ with government muzzling ... continue reading

I’m not sure how much this could teach someone to write but it’s a neat concept for exercising a bit of creativity. Learn to Write Through a Video Game Inspired by the Romantic Poets: Shelley, Byron, Keats ... continue reading