PEREGRINE PULP

The first unique dinosaur species native to BC has debuted. Ferrisaurus sustutensis (the iron lizard of the Sustut River , named such for the specimen being found along a railway line near the river), is a member of a rare family of little, hornless or small-horned, beaked dinos known as Leptoceratopsidae . You can think of them as Triceratops but only two metres long, standing less than a metre tall, and weighing only 150kgs (they're just wee, hence the "lepto" in the name

There's this document that's been making the rounds: 10 Pieces of Evidence That Prove Black People Sailed to the Americas Long Before...

Whenever I'm involved in conversations about intersex- or trans-related issues someone conflates trans with intersex and notes that one...

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How do we confuse ourselves less, avoiding getting things catastrophically wrong and making things worse for everyone? Could it require...

Somehow we're still on the insect-eating thing. Now we're on to a group project. For this project, we started by adopting the perspective...

For an assignment prompt we were asked to read the following article about the nutritional and ecological value and ethical superiority...

As ever, we are being played. We may wish to ask why and by whom. Everywhere I turn I'm being told there are "unprecedented wildfires in...

There's a meme that's been going around for a decade or more that I'd like to see end. There are many variations but they typically...

Bison came up in conversation today as an example of a tremendous, almost miraculous, conservation victory. (Also, winner of best...

You’ve likely noticed Progressives in America all atwitter with talk of what is being called the Green New Deal. And, as the nation that...

Some people were sitting together working on their laptops in the cafe when I sat down to start my own work. Shortly after I arrived one...

With so much discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly school and workplace trainings, I thought I would see what I could find on these themes within psychology, behavioural science, and sociology literatures. What I found was surprising. Here's just a small sample from recent years: Our ability to test or manipulate implicit bias is suspect: Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Klick, J., Mellers, B., Mitchell, G., & Tetlock, P. E. (2009). Strong claims and weak evid

Seems every news and information source is offering that we are on the cusp of a global insect mass-extinctions threatening all life on...

I'm constantly hearing about archaeologists digging up ruins and collecting artifacts from the ancient Aztec empire. Historians and...

America's Authors Guild recently collected data from its own membership and the members of 14 other writers' organizations, including:...

I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...

Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...