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Exciting news!! @cabinradio.ca is hiring an Ottawa correspondent "to help northerners understand what’s happening across national politics in all its forms." cabinradio.ca/jobs/

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What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.

Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56

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In honour of missing and murdered indigenous women… red dresses - picture taken in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg

Bradley's book isn't in this this interview on #Neanderthals in literary imaginings, but @nigelwarburton.bsky.social did let me sneak in a 6th book too, the excellent "Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal" by Juan José Millás & Juan Luis Arsuaga. 📚 #BookSky fivebooks.com/best-books/n...

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes@lemoustier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Re: hominin cloning & scientific ethics, I worked with Sebastian, his book is a great contribution to fictional literature on #Neanderthals. Also recommend James Bradley's Ghost Species (2020), a similar basic idea but done v differently and I found it quite moving in unexpected ways. 📚 #BookSky

Cocaine Bear, Thirty Years War edition.

I don’t like cigarettes or hacky sack, I just love standing in a circle

I hope you are all watching the Swedish Moose migration. Have not caught glimpse of a moose yet, but I am streaming it as I work -- the sounds of the Swedish spring have found their way into the draft I'm working on... www.svtplay.se/video/8Dvo9Y...

Den stora älgvandringen – Idag 01:10

I flera tusen år har älgarna vandrat samma leder för att ta sig till sommarens rika betesmarker. Följ årets vandring, som är den åttonde säsongen då vi får se älgarna vandra i rutan och på SVT Play.

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#Finland opens world's longest car-free bridge, intended for bicycle riders, pedestrians and mobility device users, and transit riders. #Helsinki's Kruunuvuori Bridge is 1,191 metres long, and will soon be served by trams. newatlas.com/architecture...

My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember theconversation.com/the-secret-s...

The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember

Plants can tune into the sound of water to direct their roots towards it, or release toxins to make themselves less palatable to browsing animals.

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Trans Canada Highway Peter McConville 2021

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

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A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being.

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

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they’re building a new style of interchange here and i don’t think most men are going to be able to find their way around it

"What I mean is, there has never come a time when I could be thought to have acquired dignity, common sense, still less worldly wisdom, qualities that supposedly come with age and get lost with age, too." Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th year www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

‘I feel I am not yet grown up’: Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th year

He got stuck in the bath and met the queen. But despite a few wobbles and procedures, the author still can’t believe his age

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What a powerful graphic memoir this is. The story begins after a mother’s stroke, for the narrator, Teresa Wong, as she tries to understand the dislocations that have left her and her mother so far apart. A gift to my husband and I from @clairecameron.bsky.social and I’m very happy for it.

WATCH: If your city is having a bike-lane debate that’s more about ideology than evidence, watch this news story from Toronto. The Province is attacking bike-lanes, and the local business community takes their arguments apart with data and smart messaging. Safe bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth

Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes

Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...

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Many notable books here, including Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men and Casey Plett’s Dream of a Woman. lithub.com/what-was-los...

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022

“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

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This is so exciting: a new Canadian site where you can buy from independent bookstores. 🔥 #Canada #AmReading www.booksellers.ca

booksellers.ca | Purchase print books and eBooks online

A network of over 100 bookstores, more than 500,000 print books or eBooks, unparalleled expertise. It is possible to buy local on the Web!

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Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears? @trinamoyles.bsky.social on Challenging a Canon Long Dominated by Men @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Spoiler: Women are choosing the bear, in more ways than one. #bears #bearsky

Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears

As a daughter of a wildlife biologist growing up in the Canadian wilderness, I’ve been fascinated with bears since I was a child. When I was only five years old, my father brought home an orphaned …

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I photographed a Pizza Hut in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/f... (Gift Link)

My husband changed his last name to mine. This was a few years ago -- our experiences of the name change have been *wildly* different. Also, I've lost count of the number of people who have asked if I married my cousin. I wrote about it:

Claire Cameron taps into the power of a surname in this original essay | CBC Books

What's in a name is a personal essay by Claire Cameron, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. It is part of Life, Rearranged, a special series of new, original writing b...

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gripe your oars, and clutch your souls, now!

"Deep in the forests of Algonquin Provincial Park, a few hours north of Toronto, sits a metal monster." thewalrusca.substack.com/p/canada-is-...

Canada Is Building a Surveillance Network in Space

A reborn Cold War telescope is part of a broader effort to stop relying on US intelligence

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