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Ottawa and Quebec have come to an ageement on the $92 million for housing construction, but we’re told in the second ‘graph here that it will be cut if Pierre Poilievre wins the next election. …

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from …

Despite growing up as a third culture kid used to travel, and having spent almost 20 years visiting various places around Japan, this spring brought a new experience: taking my kid on their first international …

Google has been maintaining two different operating systems for consumer devices since introducing the Chromebook platform in 2011. Originally they were pretty clearly delineated: ChromeOS was for laptops and desktops, while Android was for smartphones. …

We're finally getting a way to fully style & customise <select> elements! But there's a detail I'd like everyone's opinion on. A brief intro to customisable <select> If you want to hear about it in …

It will not come as news to anyone streaming music via Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal, etc – the playlist is the proprietary bit. The music is identical but your curated playlists are a barrier …

A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern …

I was just on campus at Caltech, where I was surprised to learn that 30% of the undergraduate student body is composed of varsity athletes. 3% are water polo players alone! Brown, where my son …

Last week, Tadashi Tokieda came to Chicago to give a colloquium. If you have seen him speak, you will not be surprised to learn that it was absolutely delightful talk. I carried the talk around …

Fellow fans of Theodore Dalrymple’s essays, rejoice; for I have made a serendipitous discovery. Nothing but Wickedness: Idleness, Madness, and the Culture of Decline, his out-of-print? never-printed? long-delayed? book, is finally being released this week. …

“When, in the course of a day, a man has read a newspaper, written a letter, and not wronged anyone, that is more than enough.”Enough for what? Probably to have established a minimum standard of …

Ancient indigenous people used seven so-called “Metals of Antiquity”: gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury. Today, our complex societies require a much longer list of metals. We build components for power generation, transportation, …

After moving down the Rio Grande River toward the Gulf of Mexico, we left the woodlands behind us and ventured out onto the coastal prairie of South Texas. Here, we spent an incredibly windy April …

Photographer: Ray Boren Summary Author: Ray Boren Every autumn the 700 to 800 American buffalo, or bison (genus: bison bison), at Great Salt Lake’s Antelope Island State Park — which generally enjoy a free-range life …

In my last post, I debunked the myth of the "reserve pool" of British workers. In this post, I discuss three more labour force myths that refuse to die: the myth of the "tide of …