The good: Fantastic styling, comfortable ride, usable Ford Sync, vehicle adapts to you. The bad: Fuel economy isn’t great. So I got a Ford Edge last week and have put it through the paces. Here is how it did. How the Edge felt: Absolutely loved it. Everything on the Edge feels refined and well thought [...]
February, 2012:
Dueling Ice Hotels
I had a similar idea but for a temporary homeless shelter. On a recent crisp afternoon, chainsaw-wielding ice sculptors repaired a giant elephant in the bar of Snow Village—home to one of just two ice hotels in North America. At the other, Hotel de Glace, 160 miles north in Quebec City, crews pushed mini-snow blowers [...]
Liberia ex-first lady proposes killing homosexuals
From the AFP The bill submitted by former president Charles Taylor’s ex-wife, now a senator, also seeks to amend laws to prohibit gay marriage. "No two persons of the same sex shall have sexual relations. A violation of this prohibition will be considered a first degree felony," reads the proposed amendment to marriage laws. First [...]
For street people of all ages, mental health a critical issue
From the Montreal Gazette Dans la rue’s six counsellors and two staff psychologists do what they can to help young people who are hurting. For some that’s not enough. “We have some cases that are scary,” said Tchitacov. “The person is going to hang themselves or they are going to kill somebody. They are completely [...]
Another reason why cats are stupid
They can make you crazy. The parasite, which is excreted by cats in their feces, is called Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii or Toxo for short) and is the microbe that causes toxoplasmosis-the reason pregnant women are told to avoid cats’ litter boxes. Since the 1920s, doctors have recognized that a woman who becomes infected during [...]
The Sick Man of Europe is Europe
From Foreign Policy Beyond the Arab Awakening, the financial crisis has also undermined Europe’s embryonic attempt to develop so-called "strategic partnerships" with the world’s great powers. Realist powers such as China and Russia have long attempted to play Europeans off against each other. But in the last few years, member states had gradually begun to [...]
The Colorado River Runs Dry
The United States and Mexico are trying to fix that Until 1998 the Colorado regularly flowed south along the Arizona-California border into a Mexican delta, irrigating farmlands and enriching a wealth of wildlife and flora before emptying into the Gulf of California. But decades of population growth, climate change and damming in the American Southwest [...]
What would the end of football look like?
Relevant in Canada and the United States. Writing for Grantland, economists Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier imagine how the NFL might end due to the increasing visibility of head injuries. This slow death march could easily take 10 to 15 years. Imagine the timeline. A couple more college players — or worse, high schoolers — [...]
