I recently experienced a déjà vu moment online. There’s an audio interview with author Nicholas Delbanco related to his new book Lastingness: The Art of Old Age on NPR’s website. This All Things Considered interview is included alongside an article that’s based on parts of the conversation, as well as an excerpt from Delbanco’s book. [...]
Youth circus troupe Artcirq has taken the Arctic — and the world — by storm. It’s more than just child’s play. Artcirq is based in Igloolik, Nunavut, and gives the young people there an outlet, something to take pride in. Art production has been survival strategy of the Inuit since the nomadic hunting groups settled [...]
The Vancouver Sun reported in January that climate change is responsible for brighter skies over Canada’s arctic. According to the article: “Wayne Davidson, a weather station operator in Resolute Bay — one of Canada’s most northerly communities — said Inuit hunters have noticed for years that the dark Arctic night is becoming lighter.” Wait. The [...]
Today, as I made my daily rounds of lurking for interesting videos, I came across a remarkable 1988 PBS Bill Moyers’ interview of author, professor and prolific thinker, Dr. Isaac Asimov. The interview left me awe-inspired at Asimov’s vision of the future and how similar it is to where we currently stand and where it [...]
If you have lived in Vancouver for more than a year, it’s almost certain you would have encountered bubble tea. Whether it’s someone asking if you’ve tried it or walking pass a bubble tea café, this Asian drink is present in almost every neighbourhood. Bubble tea is commonly known as a red tea or green [...]
Video may have killed the radio star, but then the Internet went ahead and killed the glamorous Hollywood star too. Case in point: the Justin Bieber fever infecting the cover of Vanity Fair. In one of the oldest most high-class magazines that once featured stars such as Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor, is now the [...]
Last week, yet another classic appeared across Canadian movie screens after years of waiting from eager fans. The film was the 1954 version of A Star is Born and it was shown at the Scotia Bank Cineplex as part of The Classic Series. The monthly series since September has showcased some of Hollywood’s best motion [...]
News about the terrorist attack in Moscow appeared on Twitter minutes after the explosion shook the city’s busiest airport. And as soon as the news spread, people looked for someone to blame. Yet there was no talk of Chechen rebels and suicide bombers. The target was much closer – the city’s taxi drivers. Twitter overflowed [...]
The Greenest City 2020 targets set forth a lofty collection of goals – from carbon neutral construction parameters to clean water and air standards. A recent reconfiguration of the goals manages to downgrade many of the parameters – bringing Vancouver slightly back to the future in 2011. Still, the city of Vancouver wants to ensure [...]
Imagine you open the newspaper tomorrow morning (or your iPhone news app) and you see your name, front-and-centre, in the obituaries. Or imagine you receive an email notification that your wife is dead while she’s sitting right next to you. Deathswitch, Dead Man’s Switch and similar websites, offer the “service” of spreading the word of [...]
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