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Our ever-sinking moral standards

I’m not one of those people who causes a fuss every time a police officer sneezes, screaming “POLICE STATE!” However, the case of Yao Wei Wu does make me question whether we are not becoming more and more accepting of state violence. Here’s the story. On January 21, two Vancouver police officers were dispatched to [...]
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The wording of ‘O Canada’ needs an update

The Harper government opened Parliament today with a Speech from the Throne that was mostly about the economy, as expected, but there was one rather unexpected development. In a section about honouring Canadian history and identity, there was this bombshell: “Our Government will also ask Parliament to examine the original gender-neutral English wording of the [...]
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Bloom Boxes for all

This is a pretty incredible. On CBS’s 60 Minutes this week, Leslie Stahl spoke with K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy. Sridhar is a rocket scientist whose work for NASA led him to develop a module that could potentially produce oxygen on Mars. However, when the Mars mission was cancelled, he reworked his technology from [...]
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Another great headline

Xinhua, the semi-official Chinese news agency, is proving to be a gold mine for great headlines.
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What’s wrong with Discovery Channel?

What ever happened to the Discovery Channel? It used to be an ocean of sanity among the madness of cable television. But after years of cultivating an image as a science and education based channel, Discovery is abusing the trust people have invested in the brand by promoting the most vile, unscientific, ridiculous programming imaginable: [...]
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David Letterman is a “hore”

The recent David Letterman "scandal" has been interesting to watch. For some reason, people are really upset that a comedian doesn't practice Victorian sexual morality.
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