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John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. You can reach him at jdupuis at yorku dot ca
Category: friday fun
I like to cook. I have a few standard, signature dishes where I more or less freestyle every time I make them -- beef stew, chili, quesadillas, pasta sauce. I also like to try new things. For example, I'll probably...
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Category: friday fun
Ok, I know this one stretches any reasonable definition of the word "fun." But in my defense, I think a few good cringes is a great way to celebrate Friday the 13th. Over on Slashfood, one of my favourite foodie...
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Bookgasm has a very fun guest post by Ben H. Winters, author of the recently published Jane Austen pastiche/adaptation/expansion Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Since writing SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS, I've gotten a ton of feedback about...
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Category: friday fun
Actually, it's not really about misconceptions that we learn only in school, it's more about urban legend/zeitgeist stuff that eveyone knows. Anyways, The 10 Biggest Misconceptions We Learn In School is from Manolith, a site I've never heard of before....
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Category: friday fun
Ah, but maybe he would if they were Cthulhu plushies! Check this out from Sci Fi Wire: 14 great Cthulhu toys that make devouring souls fun! H.P. Lovecraft's elder god Cthulhu is supposed to be terrifying, hideous and awe-inspiring--but whoever...
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Category: friday fun
And I'm not talking about students the morning after a pub night! It seems that the University of Florida has actually added zombie invasions to their campus emergency plans. You should watch, for example, for "increasing numbers of gruesome unexplained...
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Category: friday fun
Yes, The Onion again. It's only been two weeks since the last one. I just couldn't help myself. There's just something about global warming humour that appeals to my sense of the absurd. ZACKENBERG RESEARCH STATION, GREENLAND--Claiming it to be...
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Category: friday fun
Yes, it's the IgNobel Awards for 2009! Let's take a look at a couple of the more amusing ones: PEACE PRIZE: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining...
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Category: friday fun
God, I love The Onion: Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M. An international panel of leading anthropologists, cultural critics, biologists, and social theorists announced this week that Western civilization will reach its lowest conceivable...
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Category: friday fun
As many have not doubt noticed over the months and years of my blog's existence, I am a hardcore science fiction fan. And just as with the science/librarian world, there are countless blogs and other sites about the science fictions/fantasy/horror...
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