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In Canada, we live in a society where we can walk into any grocery store and find an immense variety of safe, high-quality produce grown in different continents available for our consumption. We also live in a society that relies heavily on the internet for sources of information, which is plagued with a myriad of…
Asteroids are left over material from the formation of the solar system which primarily orbit around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally due to perturbations in the orbit due to gravity influences an asteroid will swing into an orbit close to that of the earth. Such an asteroid hit the earth 66 million years…
Global warming refers to the increase in the average global temperature. Climate change refers to the changes in long-term weather patterns including precipitation, droughts, and other severe weather events. Global warming has caused climate change. The two terms are related but not interchangeable. Want to know more? 5 Climate Change misconceptions and for additional resources,…
The other day someone came to me and asked my advice concerning the potential purchase of a new machine. It was meant to help with the following problem: Software often gets into a state in which people do not know whether certain features or functions ever get used or are even reachable by “flows” through…
Jason gave an excellent talk on the ways statistics are presented in the media can deceive and how to use critical thinking skills to see through the deception.
