I really do know better. I am fair-skinned, I need to reapply sunscreen regularly ( Read more... )

Oh, LJ, why does your HTML editor insist on thinking it's smarter than I am? That took way longer than it needed to.

Oh my goodness, this list is ridiculous. See what happens when one falls behind? I'm going to stick this behind a cut, to save your friends pages.
 ( epic book list )

11. Delusions of Gender (Cordelia Fine)
This is a great read, at least if you like a little snark with your science. Fine takes on the gender essentialism that makes up so much social science (especially pop social science). You know the kind of thing: "I always thought boys and girls were just alike except for socialization, but then I had kids and ( Read more... )

 Good things about living in the Future: you can find out about all kinds of great music you'd never have heard of in the past, music that's not going to get played on any of the standard-format radio stations that are all you can get; you can even hear lots of music for free, and get exposed to many excellent artists ( Read more... )

I listen to CBC radio in the mornings while I'm getting ready for work, so that I can get a bit of an update on current events and politics and all that stuff. Sometimes there are interesting interviews. Sometimes there's annoying fluff, although less than your typical commercial radio morning show.

Lately, there's been a lot of very annoying ( Read more... )

So last night, I went out skating on the canal with some friends. It was late, so it wasn't too crowded, and the weather was lovely -- not too cold and just a light snow falling. Kind of the picture-postcard of canal skating.  We got to talking about how incredibly lucky we are to have something like this in the middle of our city. How many places ( Read more... )

And so it begins ( Read more... )

It's January, which means it's the time of year when people start "turning over a new leaf" and newspapers are full of fluffy Lifestyle stories about how to actually keep your resolutions this time around. And my gym is full of people working out frantically and discussing how many calories they're burning in the change room, and my blog reading ( Read more... )

So, it's only a few days late, right? Here's the wrap-up for my 2010 reading list ( Read more... )