View from the Edge

Seth Lloyd, over at Discover Magazine, writes a fascinating story, You Know Too Much, about the exponential increase of information in general, and science in particular, that we are subjected to in today’s world. Its fascinating to me not just because he uses one of my posts as an illustration …

Bill Moyers has long been one of the sharpest and most in-depth voices in American Media, a journalist who can take us deeper into a story than almost any other. In his recent look at American media failures in the run up to the Iraq war in 2002 …

Well, another week of tons of driving for a tiny amount of stage time is over. I’d have to go through my GPS nav records to work out exactly how many kilometers I drove, but I’ve got no doubt that my miles to minutes ratio is pretty crappy at this point …

“April showers bring may flowers” is a silly child’s rhyme that I think is familiar to most my readers. Like most such rhymes, its a teaching tool for young minds, allowing us to explain complex ideas in simple fun ways. That simple little rhyme that many of us learned as very small children helps us understand and conceptualize …

Dickens Pub in downtown Calgary has been a mainstay for decades, both under the name Dickens and in its previous incarnation as Buckingham’s, serving up a comfortable atmosphere, good food and beer, and great live music. Going back at least as far as the 80’s, I can recall several nights of drunken revelry to live blues, specifically a particular night of listening to the Powder Blues Band …

‘ve taken a few days off from View from the Edge to spend some personal time, as well as to work on a few other projects, so this is my first post for a few days. Its going to be a bit of a mish-mash post, I think, covering a few things …

I tend to quote Salon.com quite a bit in my posts here, in part because I always like to support independent journalism, especially in today’s world of corporate media saturation, but mostly because they employ and publish frighteningly talented writers …

I don’t often write on strictly local issues, as I realize that not many of my readers are from Medicine Hat, and I tend to think in terms of larger issues anyway. Today, however, I do want to speak about a local issue that has larger implication…

In most of the “first world” the notion of democratic power transfer is taken for granted. When an old government is thrown out at the polls, and a new one elected, no one in Canada ever wonders if the old government will, in fact, relinquish power …

To June Callwood, called Canada’s Conscience by many people, life was pretty much as simple as the title of this entry, or at least, she felt it should be. In the extended version of the final TV interview of her life with George Stroumboulopoulos, June talked about how much better the world would be if every baby simply got a “good start” in life