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August 13, 2016

UNESCO Listing: More harm than good? [Repost]

Recently I wrote about how the UNESCO’s World Heritage program is intended to protect those sites singled out as cultural and natural treasures. Having come across this recent report Aljazeera…..

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August 6, 2016

Gaming in a Refugee’s Shoes [Repost]

SBS – a network in Australia – aired a three-day television “event” called ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’.  It followed “…six ordinary Australians who agree to challenge their…..

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July 20, 2016

The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge [Review]

Having been a while since I’d enjoyed the exploits of criminal turned intergalactic secret agent James Bolivar “Slippery Jim” DiGriz, I picked up the second book in the series and…..

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July 13, 2016

The Road to 5th Edition D&D [Repost]

Came across this video posted over on the Verge that succinctly (running just over three minutes long) breaks down the evolution of Dungeons and Dragons over the last forty years…..

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July 1, 2016

Birth of a Nation [Repost]

Happy Canada Day! This year is the 149th anniversary of the day that Canada became a nation. But how many of us really know the story behind how it came…..

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June 19, 2016

Thank Nixon for Father’s Day [Repost]

Ever wonder where all of these holidays come from? I often do. So to that end I decided to look into the history of Father’s Day and learned as celebrations…..

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June 16, 2016

Interactive Map of the Brain [Repost]

Continuing in their long tradition of providing education by correspondence since the 1890s the somewhat newly rebranded Open Colleges has embraced the connectivity of the internet offering many of the…..

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June 4, 2016

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King [Review]

It’s been years since I’d read the third book in the Gunslinger’s series, having all but stepped away when it became evident that it would take some time before Stephen…..