GeneralSports in the Rearview MirrorOne of the most difficult cognitive biases to resist is the tendency to see a deterministic pattern, or narrative, in what is...
GeneralHypnotizing Chickens: Your Afghanistan Reading For the WeekHere is what I’ve been reading: Keeping our Promises -- the report from CASC on the way forward for Canada after 2011 Ending the...
GeneralWorst Cliche in HockeyIn an otherwise excellent piece criticising the Ottawa Senators for their collapse in game six against the Penguins, Wayne Scanlan...
GeneralThe information panopticon cometh pt XVIIWhat happens when your ad network knows you are gay but your co-workers don’t? This strikes me as a fairly important question.
GeneralSarko saute le requinIt’s embarrassing for me to remember that there was a time when I had great hopes for Nicholas Sarkozy. But with today’s...
GeneralThe newspaper is dying, hooray for democracy revisitedThere’s lots of blog chatter today about David Brooks’ latest column, reporting on a new study that debunks the myth of group...
GeneralMy crazy Afghan wedding panelSorry for the ongoing lack of blogging. I’m becoming one of those people, as Rex Sorgatz tweeted the other day, who wonders how...