Regular readers of this space will recognize that we have very few moral ambitions on this blog. We do not blog for world peace, we do not call for an end to cancer. We do not aspire, like the excellent PhD in Parenting, to hold multinational corporations accountable for their anti-child profiteering. Mostly we just …
Author Archives: Nathan
Elle’s Law: Thou Shalt Not Kill
Pavement Patty struck my procrastinatory interest in the incidences of fatal pedestrian and bike accidents in New York. Yes, it’s been only a few weeks since we reported on car-meets-person maulings in NYC. But there’s a new development. If you’ve been (safely) riding the subway lately, you may have seen some advertisements for it: Elle’s …
Who is God and Other Unanswerable Questions
Of course I should have gotten into trouble for this: I played Victor Lundberg’s scary paleo-Christian-warrior song in the living room yesterday, ostensibly so my wife could revel in its backwards glories. But the kids were also there, listening much more intently than either of their parents. Dalia, of course, for whom the word “death” …
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Pavement Patty gets squished
Since I was mentioned in the Calgary Herald this week, and because Karen T. is one of our most beloved commenters and a confirmed Canadian, I am going to keep bringing you Canada’s news of the week. Discover magazine reports that today that city officials in Vancouver unveiled a 2D “virtual speedbump” to get drivers …