When I first started working at the Weyburn Review, the data for billing and payroll were recorded on punch cards that were sent to Regina for processing. Twenty years later, and IBM is touting the 21st century equivalent of a punch card: a mechanical chip that stores data in the form of nanoscale holes in …
I’m off to Young, Saskatchewan, for a school reading this afternoon…Grades 10 to 12, so I’ll probably read this.
Call them nanobacteria or Calcifying self-propagating nanoparticles, tiny…things…may be contributing to human illness. Research continues–but not as much as you might think would be warranted.
According to researchers at Northern Arizona University, a closer regulation of the tattoo industry may be warranted, due to possible health concerns with tattoo inks.
Why not? That’s what Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos seems to be up to.
Here’s an article about Americans and Canadians and some of the former who have moved to be with the latter that is sure to raise Canadians’ blood pressure–while annoying Americans here and there along the way.
Renowned paleontologist Philip Currie is leaving the Royal Tyrrell Museum to become the first full-time dinosaur professor at the University of Alberta. I’ve had the pleasure of having a backstage tour at the Royal Tyrrell museum led by Phil Currie a couple of times in conjunction with ConVersion, Calgary’s annual science fiction convention. He’s a …
Earthquakes only make the news when there’s significant damage–but don’t let that fool you into thinking they’re rare occurrences. We live on a very shaky planet, as this near-real-time Seismic Monitor demonstrates.
I know, I’m old, and even when I was young, I wasn’t cool, but I’ve never understood lip-piercing, nose-piercing, tongue-piercing, other-bodily-part-piercing–even ear-piercing is suspect, as far as I’m concerned. Why would you want to do that to yourself? Now comes a scientific reason to object, should my daughter one day (God forbid) seek to pierce …
This just in! The best way to rid the hands of disease viruses is…soap and water.
As the famous quote has it, when a dog bites a man, that’s not news. When a man bites a dog, that’s news. No doubt when a cat bites a man, that’s not news, either–but when a cat shoots its owner–well, that is undoubtedly news. The weapon in question was a 9mm handgun, and the …
With a headline like that, the story itself is kind of anti-climactic.
