19:41 Thursday 19 August 2021"Open Google. Type in any random noun, followed by the word 'conspiracy' and something will show up.
I tried it. The word I used was 'dog.' I found several conspiracies about Barack Obama's dog."
- English professor Paul Budra

Authorship theories contend that Shakespeare's plays were written by other people, including ... ( Read more... )

Tue Apr 6 23:38:19 EDT 2021

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Wed Dec 16 18:50:39 EST 2020'It's a slow death': Camels are dying with masses of plastic in their bellies
Wild camels are dying with up to 80kg (175lb) of plastic in their guts.The plastic clumps, called polybezoars, are responsible for 1% of camel deaths in U.A.E.
The polybezoars found in the guts of dead camels range from 'the size of a basketball ( Read more... )

Fri Nov 13 19:30:04 EST 2020

As It Happens tonight had a couple of amusing interviews about taxidermy. Starts @ 38:38 into the podcast. (The 2nd interview ("Re-creating movie scenes with dead mice: 6th grader on taxidermy hobby") gets into details - warning for the squeamish.)

The John Waters donation interview was also pretty good. (He's left his ( Read more... )

Sun Mar 29 00:10:48 EDT 2020

There was a request for diversions from the reports of doom and catastrophe. As It Happens (CBC, weekdays 18:30-20:00) tends to mix in a lighter story or two. Of late, the end of the 1st half-hour seems to be the place you should look. You can hear the shows on-line later, but the podcast version is missing some of the ( Read more... )

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12/7/2018 8:30 PM

A martyr, or misguided? Death of missionary sparks debate over evangelical work
CBC Radio's The Current is doing a story about 26-year-old Christian missionary John Allen Chau, who was killed on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean. (The island's residents want no contact with the outside world, and they have made this clear ( Read more... )

Fri Nov 2 19:15:50 EDT 2018The Lost Words book gives new life to nature terms cut from Oxford Junior DictionaryRobert Macfarlane wanted to give new life to words that had been "lost" after they were dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary ( Read more... )

Tue Jun 26 16:00 EDT 2018
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