It’s not a joke, on Sunday, the British explorer Lewis Pugh swam for nearly 19 minutes in the open water at the North Pole. Until recently, the North Pole was constantly covered in thick ice, so Pugh did the swim to raise awareness of the devastating effects of global warming. The water was -1.8°C and […]

For the Canada Day long weekend, Juliette and I headed off to the Finger Lakes for a three day, 300km bike tour around the lakes. It was a wonderful trip that went through some beautiful country. The picture from the trip are up, but not captioned yet. We are enjoying bike touring and planning on […]

I was reading an older article in the NY Times this morning about how little the average American knows about science. I am sure that Canadian statistics wouldn’t be much better, but it makes you wonder how a democratic society can make intelligent decisions about issues like global warming or nuclear energy when they don’t have the […]