13th International Migratory Bird Day at Toronto Zoo
Bart B. Van Bockstaele-Toronto: Toronto Zoo held its 13th International Migratory Bird Day last Saturday, 12 May 2012. As has become something of a tradition, I joined the party by tagging along on the birding walk in the closed-off sections of the zoo. The walk started at 8 am, and I boarded the first Red [...]
Toronto is a cosmopolitan city where people from numberless countries and cultures and persuasions live peacefully together. This successful multiculturalism is one of its main attractions for tourists, as made abundantly clear in tourist brochures and coffee table publications. Far and between, however, are tourists that come here to marvel at the city’s natural heritage. [...]
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Saving a life can take many forms from understanding the needs of our biological clocks to practical solutions in the fight against childhood disease. This morning seven men were announced as the recipients of the 2012 Gairdner Award for their medical discoveries. The Canada Gairdner Awards honour the world’s most significant medical research. The awards [...]
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Richard Dawkins Evolutionary biologist and zoologist Richard Dawkins is renowned as one of the world’s leading public atheists. Religionists often call him arrogant, shrill, intolerant and aggressive in his defense of atheism. Many religionists claim that Richard Dawkins’ atheism is nothing but another form of religion, that he is an ignorant clown who doesn’t know [...]
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William Lane Craig [04] In case you are not familiar with him, William Lane Craig [01] is an individual who works as a Jesus shill for Biola University [02], an institution of questionable academic integrity that requires all its staff to accept an intellectually untenable doctrinal statement [03]. This is a text, full of unproven [...]
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In the previous article, I presented the Monty Hall Problem, a famous problem in elementary probability, based on “Let’s make a deal”, a television game show of years gone by. If you haven’t read that article, what follows is likely to make little sense. It would therefore probably be better to read that article before continuing [...]
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Bart B. Van Bockstaele-Toronto: How often have you heard this: “It’s just common sense”? Probably far more often than you care to remember. Common sense is often seen as a sort of innate intuition that leads us to the correct conclusions only a moron would deny. However, as I will show in this and the [...]
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David Suzuki in 2009 I just finished watching the documentary MS Wars: Hope, Science and the Internet, presented by the indomitable David Suzuki in the CBC’s “The Nature of Things” series. I loved this documentary. The issues involved are intense, painful and devastating for patients, and fascinating for science. All the issues were presented in [...]
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Pfizer Ripples of Hope Awards granted to four outstanding researchers VANCOUVER, Jan. 19, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Pfizer Canada is pleased to announce four recipients of the annual Pfizer Ripples of Hope Awards. Bibiana Wong and Liza Sutton are both post-doctoral fellows at the University of British Columbia and are respectively the recipients of the [...]
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 30, 2011 /CNW Telbec/ – After an international scientific team studying neutrino particles in Italy found the CERN results about neutrinos traveling faster the speed of light to be incorrect, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, pronounced their conclusion to be greatly biased in favor of prevailing theory. “I wouldn’t be surprised if any [...]
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