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I can't stop reading and hearing a range of reporters and podcasters on CBC and elsewhere repeat a blatantly false story across all their...

"Wolf!" cried the little shepherd boy. "WOLF!" "There ain't no wolf," barked the townsfolk. "Go away!" booed some folks. "There's no...

READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...

On Friday March 30, 1979 there was a significant anthrax outbreak among the population of Sverdlovsk. Local officials and scientists...

Our reading offers us that, "The ability to recover from mass extinctions is strong evidence for Gaia." This idea still strikes me like a...

Intuition came up in several recent school readings and class discussions. I don’t understand this conversation or know where to go with it. At all. Part of the problem, I think, is about definitions. (Though this is probably just Maslow's hammer: my cognitive bias that over-relies upon semantics. To the semantic-hammer, everything seems a word-nail.) What I'm certain of is that our readings never help with a definition. ( It seems you're just supposed to intuit a meaning. ZI

A legend of the environmental world and key author in our introductory readings, David Orr, writes, “...philosophers have agreed with...

It's happening again. A Forbes article, citing the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF), is reporting that due to recent fires in Australia...

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...

PEOPLE: “Folks today expect bananas all year round!” BANANAS: “Oh Humans, we Bananas are not a seasonal crop. That's the first thing you...

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

PERSON 1: If we trust our senses, and just use our basic intelligence, we can tell that we live in a big, big world. Like, if I climb a...

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...

Before we could get keys and move in, our new landlord said he needed to have a plumber come. But he said he'd contact us shortly, as...

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...

By Kale McDunitt May 29th, 2022 Austria's Schönbrunn Zoo, the world's oldest continuously operating zoo, went public today with a secret...

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