Interesting Stuff

This page is for former students and anyone who is interested in interesting stuff.

The Baloney Detection KitCarl Sagan’s rules for critical thinking offer cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

Opinion | Trump Has Made Us All StupidThe decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber.

World's 1st floating dairy farm could help cities adapt to climate change | CBC NewsMilk and yogurt are being produced right in the bustling port of Rotterdam, Netherlands, by the world's first floating dairy farm. Its creators say similar farms could help protect cities from food security risks associated with climate change.

Two women under 35 are now running Finland ‘I want to build a society in which every child can become anything and in which every human being can live and grow old with dignity,’ wrote PM Sanna Marin

800 Jews, Christians, Muslims sing ‘One Love’ in Jerusalem - ISRAEL21cKoolulam mass singing event at Tower of David Museum joins disparate voices in a show of unity coinciding with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

Is It Time Gauguin Got Canceled?Museums are reassessing the legacy of an artist who had sex with teenage girls and called the Polynesian people he painted “savages.”

Hershey, Nestle and Mars won’t promise their chocolate is free of child laborNearly 20 years ago, the cocoa industry’s biggest companies pledged to eradicate the “worst forms” of child labor in their supply chains. Why haven’t they kept their promises?

Why Nestle is one of the most hated companies in the worldChild labor, unethical promotion, manipulating uneducated mothers, pollution, price fixing and mislabeling - those are not words you want to see

Canada slips 4 places on world index measuring women's equality | CBC NewsCanada slipped four spots this year on a global index that ranks countries based on women's equality and well-being.

How your food scraps are going to fuel Toronto's garbage trucks | CBC NewsMaking sure food scraps end up in the compost and not the garbage just got more important as the City of Toronto is turning your organic waste into a gas that can be used to fuel trucks and even heat your home.

Vote Compass Canada 2019Explore how you fit in Canada's political landscape

CBC's chat bot helps you spot 'fake news' — and avoid spreading it | CBC NewsCBC has created a chat bot tool for Facebook Messenger to help you spot disinformation and decide what news sources you can trust throughout the campaign.

The maths problem that could bring the world to a haltOur hectic, on-demand lifestyles rely upon allocating finite resources to ever-changing numbers of people. To keep up, however, we must solve a little-known mathematical riddle.

The Power Of Purpose: How Adidas Will Make $1 Billion Helping Solve The Problem Of Ocean PlasticHow Adidas is set to make more than $1 billion in revenue by helping to solve the problem of marine plastic, via it's groundbreaking collaboration with Parley for the Oceans.

What You Eat Can Impact Climate Change! See 9 Foods That Harm the Planet and 11 Foods That Can Help Save It

What if your city had the same deforestation rate as the Amazon Forest?Here you can apply the current rate to any place in the world, and see how long nature would last.

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