What would take 10,000 years for the most advanced supercomputer to solve took Google’s quantum computer less than four minutes | Continue reading
One day in 1919, Ambrose Small was at his desk, busily looking after the affairs of his many theatres. The next day he was gone | Continue reading
I can tell you from personal experience how disturbing it is to discover a website devoted to making fake audio clips of you — for comic or malevolent purposes | Continue reading
For some, the idea is just another sign of the creeping medicalization of everyday human woes: Is it really the best we can do to fix the loneliness ‘epidemic’? | Continue reading
Half of those charged in anti-Mafia probe in Italy are Canadians or are living in Canada, evidence of the Mafia’s ‘unbreakable umbilical cord’ | Continue reading
Farmer Myele Begin recently changed her Instagram settings after getting up an hour early to delete more than 100 negative messages a day | Continue reading
Modern Canadians cannot condemn the sometimes shocking behaviour of their WWI soldiers without knowing the stress of battle, historian Tim Cook says | Continue reading
Tristin Hopper: Charity is great, but it’s best to not do it in the most inefficient way imaginable | Continue reading
The fox was travelling so fast, researchers thought it had been killed and brought aboard a boat | Continue reading
A single acre of black soldier fly larvae can produce more protein than 3,000 acres of cattle or 130 acres of soybeans | Continue reading
Some Alzheimer’s researchers are proposing the creation of human-monkey chimeras — part-human beings with entire portions of the brain entirely human derived | Continue reading
The moral problem is that dodgeball encourages students to aggressively single others out for dominance, and to enjoy that dominance as a victory | Continue reading
Scientists found that between 40 and 60 per cent of the total global CFC-11 emissions originated from eastern China | Continue reading
Chemical engineers at McMaster University dried live viral vaccines with a sugar solution that can be stored at 40 C for months with no ill effects | Continue reading
The Secure Site for Research in Thanatology will research how human bodies decompose in a Canadian climate, information crucial for death investigations | Continue reading
Kraft revealed that, three months ago, it quietly stripped its signature Mac & Cheese dinners of artificial flavors, preservatives and dyes | Continue reading
Charles Joughin was one of the disaster’s most unlikely survivors and he did it thanks to industrial amounts of liquor | Continue reading
Credit the saunas and berries | Continue reading
‘If you want to solve poverty and marginalization, the smartest approach is to get the experts — the poor and marginalized — to help with solutions’ | Continue reading
The upheavals following the first contact with Europeans in 1492 is thought to have cut the population of 60 million living across the Americas down to five or six million within just 100 years | Continue reading
The coup of the American Psychological Association undertaken by the ideologues is now complete | Continue reading
Today, with the cultural appropriation debate casting a long shadow across Canadian journalism and public discourse, our need for the 18th century French philosopher’s commitment to free expression… | Continue reading
It’s not the first time someone’s best laid plans have been dashed by Calibri | Continue reading
The University of Alberta study adds to a growing scientific realization that herbivores actually love meat, they’re just bad at finding it | Continue reading
For every 450 kilograms added to the weight of a car, a vehicle becomes 40 per cent more likely to turn an otherwise survivable crash into a fatal collision | Continue reading
‘We’re shaping the future of the meat industry — literally,’ says Aleph’s CEO and founder of the slaughter-free steak | Continue reading
Icelanders believe in fairies, Spaniards set charging bulls loose in their streets and North Americans tip | Continue reading
Rob Tibbo arranged for the U.S. whistleblower, then the planet’s most-wanted man, to hide with three refugee families. Now they seem to be facing the consequences | Continue reading
I don’t actually think the government will appoint a group of card-carrying Liberal hacks to this ‘independent panel.’ They won’t need to | Continue reading
Sadaf Ahsan: Unlike so many industries that have been disrupted by technological advances, libraries across North America have shown an uncanny ability to adapt | Continue reading
The three academics had a very serious mission in all this: To expose what they call the ‘identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left’ | Continue reading
They have analysed 70 human languages to establish that all have a universal ‘shape’, such that a computer can translate one into the other without any prior understanding | Continue reading
A man was jailed 15 years for calling Joseph Stalin a fathead. One year for sedition, 14 years for revealing a state secret | Continue reading
Actinium-225 has shown promise as an actual radioactive medicine that can kill cancer cells — and only cancer cells — by delivering an intense but hyper-local blast of energy | Continue reading
In an exclusive account, author Steven Galloway reveals how shocking accusations of sexual assault devastated his career — and his life | Continue reading