Tag: CBC

Hear one of my "Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House" interviews online

It’s the one about souvenirs, and I just discovered The Afternoon Edition has put it online here. Enjoy!

Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House: Souvenirs

Notes for this week’s CBC radio segment of Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House. UPDATE: Listen to the actual interview! **** Souvenirs seem to have some strange mesmeric power over travelers. You visit a place with beautiful scenery, a long and fascinating history, great restaurants and a vibrant night life, and somehow you decide …

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Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House: The Kitchen

Here are this week’s notes for the “Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House” segment that will be on between 4:30 and 5 p.m. today on CBC Saskatchewan’s Afternoon Edition. In the radio version, the segment about the aluminum coffee pot got left out, so that’s your special blog bonus for the week! (And again, …

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"Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House…"

…which I’ve long talked about turning into a book (and maybe a CD, and a stage show, and…) finally became a reality in one form today: I’ve started a new limited column series for CBC Saskatchewan’s Afternoon Edition, hosted by Colin Grewar, with that as its title. So here’s today’s entry, more or less (these …

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Food on the Web

This week’s CBC Web column (the last of the series)… *** “What’s for dinner?” is a question whose answer can inspire joy, dread, or simply ennui. We all have our favorite recipes, and a few that are far from our favorites. But we get tired of even our favorite things if we get them night …

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The past through the Web

This week’s (and the second-last–it’s wrapping up at the end of this month) CBC Web column… *** “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” author L.P. Hartley famously wrote to begin his 1953 novel The Go-Between. And like most foreign countries, while we might not want to live there, we often …

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Blogging!

Today’s Web column for CBC’s Afternoon Edition… *** Over the past few years the growing use of computers and the Internet has contributed a lot of weird new words to our language. People talk about ROM and RAM and “megs of memory,” Googling and websurfing and more. But one of the weirdest words of all …

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Book sites

Here’s this week’s CBC Web column… *** Books make great Christmas presents…at least, the right book does. But with so many books out there, how do you find the good ones? Well, the World Wide Web is a good place to start. There are hundreds of good book sites on the Web. In fact, there …

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Maps on the Web

This week’s CBC Web column… Download an audio version. *** Jokes about how hard it is to fold a highway map use to be a staple of slice-of-life comedians. Well, highway maps are probably just as hard to fold as they ever were—but you don’t have to fold them, or even use them, if you …

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Hey, that’s me on Newsworld!

My interview on Newsworld regarding the science of soccer did indeed air today at 11:15 a.m. I captured it and YouTubed it for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Me on Newsworld

Yesterday CBC Newsworld contacted me about doing a short segment on the science of soccer, in honour of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup now being played in Canada. (If you google “The Science of Soccer,” the column I wrote in 2002 is the first hit.) I did the interview this morning on the lawn outside …

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World-wide wikis

Today’s CBC Web column… ******* Once upon a time, a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham visited Honolulu, where a Honolulu International Airport counter employee told him to take the a particular shuttle bus line between terminals, nicknamed the “WikiWiki” line: wiki is a Hawaiian-language word for “fast.” I don’t know whether Cunningham took the WikiWiki …

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