PEREGRINE PULP

Today I got a little booklet in the mail from the provincial government. It was the official voter's guide to the referendum on electoral...

Nothing happened 2,018 years ago on the first day of January. Bizarrely, Pope Gregory XIII, who gave us our modern calendar back in 1582,...

Over the last two decades I've acquired many kettles and tea pots. I've had stove-top kettles and electric kettle, whistling and...

The Atlantic magazine carried an article called "The Case For Getting Rid of Borders – Completely." I really wanted to hear something...

- I am a mosquito magnet. (Like getting twenty a day through my clothes, while wearing repellant, when no one else is getting any at...

Several times during my undergrad I had people suggest to me that I couldn't possibly understand what it's like to have trouble learning...

In 2018, it seems weekly we have another report or op-ed hitting home how "America is so divided" and "never been so divided." I read...

Here's a question: Who are toilets for? No, seriously. Toilets are something I very rarely hear anyone talking (or, more appropriately,...

I just heard about Aziz Ansari. I worry you won't read the victim's words and just assume this case to be like most of the others. It is...

The caterpillar cuts a path of pure devastation through the ecosystem it is born into. It consumes everything it can find, eating...

A favourite statement regularly heard repeated in recent months is that “people don't lie about abuse.” This is sometimes modified to...

[For DJL] Who designed the dial on the paper towel dispenser? You know, that round dial with the two tear drop depressions, in a kind of...

We know why we sneeze. Sneezing (or sternutation) typically happens due to foreign particulate getting inside you and agitating the cilia...

In recent weeks I've come across many public declarations (in person, on the news, and on social media) claiming “no refugee has ever...

I was reading a book about infinity. In it, the author, not a physicist, deviates into a discussion of the quantum world. He explains how...

This Omar Khadr case is far more interesting than the banter in your local or national paper, on the evening news or on Twitter. ​ What I...

I don't like to think of time in the conventional manner. I once read a definition of time as, “a measure of change”. I always liked...

Since 2016 there's been much said about Nazis. Yet, somehow, despite all the talk and tweeting and counter protesting I feel we've...