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The Case for Censoring the Anti-Vax Movement
Okay, now I have been in some lively discussions about my push to censor the Anti-Vax movement because of the health dangers they pose to the community. I have equated them to yelling Fire in a...
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The Atheist Church?
There has been a movement lately to establish a ‘church’ for the atheist community. No, these are not attempts by the Christian community to convert atheist but atheist themselves, and mainly...
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Free Will Redux
Our discussion about freewill inspired by the Sam Harris’s recent book has resulted in some debate in our listener community. One issue raised was a technical definition of the terms. One point raised...
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Manufacturing Islamophobia
The false equivilancy of New Atheist and Islamophbia The Hatcket Job on Dawkins I came across an article just the other day that pointed out that some members of the New Atheist were…how shall we say,...
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Korean War Redux
Unless you have been hiding in a bomb shelter or perhaps were visiting another planet, you probably have heard that it appears that North Korea and South Korea are at a state of war…again! To be fair,...
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Loyal to whom?
The librarians dilemma I have talked before about a fundamental difference between our current government and all previous governments. That Conservatives have systematically and methodically attempted...
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Suing for Access
The making information inaccessible While it is too early to say things may be getting better in our government…in the arena of providing information to its citizens about what it is doing…or at least...
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PandaGate – Panda Primer
This is a three part series about pandas, their politics and the Canadian connection. In case you missed it, Er Shun, a 5-year-old female, and Da Mao, a 4-year-old male, ‘guest’ panda’s from China...
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PandaGate – Panda Politics
Okay, in part one we talked about what IS a panda…next we shall talk about how pandas have been used for politics. So, what is panda politics? It seems that the Chinese have known for a long time...
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PandaGate – Panda Pandering
Okay last of three, this time we talked about how Canada got our panda loan. We have already talked about pandas and how the Chinese government has used them as an aspect of their foreign diplomacy....
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Good Big Data and you
This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Series on the good side of big data. Following will be another series on the bad side of Big Data. Part 1: You are a fountain of data… We have all heard about Big Pharma, Big...
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The universe in Big Data…
This is Part 2 of a two part series on the good side of Big Data. Following will be another series on the bad side of Big Data. Part 2: New dimensions on knowledge… Some of you may have heard about the...
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My data…big and small
Earlier I wrote about the ‘good’ of Big Data, now we are going to continue our discussion of Big Data but this time we take at look at the ‘bad’ of Big Data…its dark side. This is a Six Part Series...
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Your digital exhaust
An extended look at the ‘bad’ of Big Data…its dark side. This is a Six Part Series based on my discussion on Radio Freethinkers broken down into bite sized pieces. Part 2: How your data makes...
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Meta-data shelta-data, who cares?
An extended look at the ‘bad’ of Big Data…its dark side. This is a Six Part Series based on my discussion on Radio Freethinkers broken down into bite sized pieces. Part 3: Meta-data never lies… Now...
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Data mining democracy
An extended look at the ‘bad’ of Big Data…its dark side. This is a Six Part Series based on my discussion on Radio Freethinkers broken down into bite sized pieces. Part 4: How big data has created a...
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The blurring of the Big Data lines
An extended look at the ‘bad’ of Big Data…its dark side. This is a Six Part Series based on my discussion on Radio Freethinkers broken down into bite sized pieces. Part 5: Whose data is whose? Of...
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True North Surveilled and Free?
An extended look at the ‘bad’ of Big Data…its dark side. This is a Six Part Series based on my discussion on Radio Freethinkers broken down into bite sized pieces. Part 6: CSEC – don’t know them? They...
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Atheist identity…?
portion of our show with Randolph. Not all of it got on the show, but worth reading. > <Don> 1) Is there an atheist identity? The idea of not believing something should not, in itself and in...
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The Mega Myth of Mega Vitamins
Too much of a good thing can kill ya! Okay, I am going to write about how we overmedicate ourselves with regards to vitamins. That said, I am NOT saying that vitamin supplements are always bad. In...
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