Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jeans, not Genes!

More genetics, and ebird and food

By Bharat | 2018-04-03 | Roundup

Where we wade into the “new” controversy on genetics and race, and talk about e-cigarettes, food and more

Imprints

I left handprints everywhere.

By Sabrina Buzzalino | 2016-06-13 | Culture

Reflections on safety and ways of being…

“She’s my Rushmore, Max!”: masculinity and vulnerability in Rushmore

Exploring masculinity in a Wes Anderson film.

By Sherwin Arnott and Sabrina Buzzalino | 2015-06-21 | Culture

Rushmore is from 1998, and it’s very white, but Sabrina and Sherwin think it has some redeeming features. It’s an interesting meditation on class and masculinity…

Hitchhikings

Back in the day.

By Meghan Jezewski and Sherwin Arnott | 2017-06-20 | Culture

In which Meghan and Sherwin reflect on the old days, hitchhiking, and being young and lucky (and privileged) …

Buying ourselves out of homes

Political will and housing affordability.

By Meghan Jezewski | 2016-06-01 | Policy

Renting and buying homes, for BC residents, is becoming less and less affordable. We’re experiencing the result of decades of deregulation and rabid speculation…

Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jagmeetophobia TV facebook and more

Jagmeet Singh, facebook and more

By Bharat | 2018-03-23 | Roundup

Canadian media is still hung up in the 1980s on Sikhs, is facebook really to blame for polarization, and more!

Pocket Scraps – Jan and Feb 2018

In which I try and catch up on all the scraps

By Bharat | 2018-03-19 | Roundup

Convergent evolution, cat mass spectrometers, love jihad and more!

Sometimes courage is choosing not to jump

Ten Meter Tower short film documents humans being humans.

By Rebecca Cory | 2017-04-24 | Culture

The video shows a dozen or so people at the top of a ten metre diving tower deciding whether to jump. The film documents a surprising and poignant range of human emotions…

The Evil Woman trope

Over-representation of women as perpetrators of violence in crime shows.

By Sherwin Arnott and Rebecca Cory | 2016-03-10 | Media

In which the Evil Women trope is discussed. Women are over-represented as evil villains, murderers and criminal masterminds …

Friendship to the Max! A Review of Lumberjanes!

A supercool review of a supercool comic series.

By Ariane Douchet-Wheatley | 2014-11-10 | Art

I recently discovered Lumberjanes, a comic published by Boom! Box, an offshoot of Boom! Studios. I strongly recommend …

Anadrome, semordnilap and levidrome: a whimsical example of problematic information

Levidrome is a new synonym for anadrome, heterodrome, volvogram, semordnilap, reversal and several others.

By Sherwin Arnott | 2018-02-04 | Media

How a heartwarming news story about an interesting linguistic phenomenon widely mislead people that there are no words to describe that spell different words when they’re reversed…

More nuanced theories of journalism needed

Everyone has a theory-of-journalism whether they admit it or not.

By Sherwin Arnott | 2017-08-10 | Media

A good theory of journalism helps us understand what media are not journalistic. And, equally important, a theory helps us understand what unconventional kinds of media are journalistic…