PEREGRINE PULP

You know this phenomenon, this optical illusion, that occurs when you stare too long at something and fatigue your photoreceptors? When you close your eyes you get what is called "retinal inertia", where those burned out receptors don't stop responding even in the absence of light. What you see then, with your eyes shut, is a "negative afterimage" that is the inverse of the light intensity and colours you were just looking at with your eyes open. Yeah. Now imagine that but wi

The Vancouver Sun just published " Crime destroying B.C. downtowns, municipal leaders warn ." Many other news outlets offered similar reporting. Just a couple weeks ago it was " ' When a street dies, a city dies': B.C. businesses say disorder, crime jeopardizing their survival ." The trouble here is, well, that none of this is happening. We actually have good data on criminal code violations and crime severity in British Columbia (and around the country). And if you go lookin

Someone I like and follow on the internet was using the Marshmallow Test as an analogy. That famous test, of course, put in front of kids...

Comedian Dusty Slay ("Okay. We're havin' a good time.") tells a story about attempting to join the army. The whole thing is a much longer story about how he reasoned that there was no chance America would be involved in a major conflict before he could get some training and life skills, do some travelling, put in time as a cook, and to save some money to pay for culinary school and maybe build a restaurant when he gets out -- and that he should have been sent to basic trainin