Today I return from a long hiatus of personal scientific writing, but not for just any topic. I slither out of my fabled and mysterious science lair, clothed in my bejeweled laboratory coat and particularly full of snarky rage. Ready to unload some choice words on one of everyone’s favourite things to rant about. Idiots. No, not idiots of your everyday consideration like this kid who tried to have sex with a hotpocket. Or this…

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For starters, I want to recognize that the title of my article might be considered quite inflammatory. That said, I don’t care. I want you to shoot your children. The gun and the bullet I am talking about are vaccines, and if you aren’t in agreement with the use of this weapon in the fight...

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It’s been a roller coaster month for brains. On one extreme, the world has been swept with enthusiasm promoting awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a campaign that some might argue has been almost TOO successful. On the other hand we were abruptly and devastatingly shown that even for an individual who lit up the...

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Time to face the facts folks. It’s been a long Canadian winter and you’ve been huddled up drinking high fat triple-chocolate lattes around the fireplace with the average daily mobility of a rock. Fear not, even rocks can get active and I myself have to shed an entire seasons worth of Timmy’s French vanillas. Whatever...

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   "We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children"                                    - Thought to be an ancient Native American Proverb It’s been a long time since my last post, so what topic would...

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A bit ominous for the festive Holiday season, I agree. Regardless, today’s topic will include mention of a potentially violent end to the human race, but don’t worry… it is for our own good. In actuality what you are going to read about today is how a single event might galvanize the human race into...

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“Nothing’s ever the same,“ she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It’s always                              churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.” I have always had an everlasting fascination with the ocean. From my naked eye,...

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In our scientific and journalistic travels together, there has been a consistent frontrunner for the most popular man in my own scientific history, Carl Sagan. Today, November 9th is official Carl Sagan Day. Happy Birthday Carl, you’re a timeless beauty.                              ...

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In my first ever blog post, I talked about how I thought science was a means to appreciate all the gifts of life, which you have been blessed with. A means to understand and comprehend the true value of your life before everything else that you worry about so much on a daily basis. That’s...

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“Even though it is common knowledge, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love lives, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards as his or her own intimate private self - is simply the...

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