"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
by russell if you have not already met him one way or another, allow me to introduce you to Gurdeep Pandher. who is Gurdeep? he is a Punjabi Sikh who currently lives in the Yukon. not sure how he got there, but life is interesting and full of surprises. what does Gurdeep do? he dances … Read more
by liberal japonicus The previous post was an invitation to talk about history and society. However, I found this article quite interesting and thought it might spark some interesting thoughts https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00333-9/fulltext Medicine could arguably be described as man’s greatest achievement beating out other fields of endeavor because it must have been a lot harder to … Read more
by liberal japonicus We are just starting back to face to face classes and still under social distancing so my teaching is still rather constrained, which, strangely enough, means that I’m much busier. So I think I would have been much more plugged into reading about and trying to transmit information to students about this … Read more
by russell Time for a fresh thread. A bad day, I think we can all agree, is when a whale tries to eat you while you're diving for lobster. A good day is when the whale figures out that 'human in a dive suit' was not what he ordered, and spits you back out. A … Read more