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African penguins are the newest exhibit at Toronto Zoo. I watched them being fed, while they were swimming at the surface and also through the under-water viewing windows.

As sure as the appearance of the garter snakes announces spring, the gathering of monarch butterflies announces autumn. Each year in autumn, the monarch butterflies migrate thousands of kilometres from Toronto (and many other places in Southern Ontario) to their hibernation sites in Mexico.
The life cycle of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is remarkable. The [...]

Last Saturday, volunteer groups all over the world staged an overdose campaign. People deliberately took massive overdoses of commercially bought homoeopathic products to show that there is nothing in them. A Toronto group took part in the worldwide event.
The worldwide event, called the 10:23 Challenge is based on a classical demonstration of the absurdity of [...]

CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, just announced that the LHC will run until the end of 2012, except for a short technical stop at the end of 2011.
The original intention was to let the LHC run until the end of 2011. There would then be a long technical stop in order [...]

A few hours ago, the CBC’s Marketplace had a show about homoeopathy. One cannot reasonably expect a 20 minute programme to completely explain anything and everything about homoeopathy. Nevertheless, the programme contains no blatant errors, no obvious bias and it is complete enough to give the lay person an idea about what homoeopathy is and [...]

This morning, people in Toronto experienced a rare event: a total lunar eclipse on the same day as the winter solstice. Only once before has this happened in the past two thousand years, on 21 December 1638.

This chapter, starting at 18:55 minutes, is a delicate one. Cosmology is evolving quite rapidly and new insights come up often. It would not be fair to the makers of this documentary to accuse them of not knowing or not presenting information that did not in fact exist at the time they made it. [...]

In this chapter of the documentary, starting at 08:24 minutes, Strobel starts to really make his case for a creator. As the title suggests, this part presents the negative evidence, i.e. the evidence that shows that science is wrong. There is nothing wrong with this approach. There is a lot of “wrongness” in science, [...]

A friend sent me an e-mail, suggesting that I watch a certain documentary. I do not know who the original author is, and while I am always curious, I do not think this is relevant.
Le nom du documentaire dont je te parle est The Case for a Creator. Je l’ai acheté au Christian Family [...]

This morning, I decided to verify how much ice there was in the freezer and I discovered -much to my surprise- that a 4.1 cm long spike had developed on one of the ice cubes. Now, there’s something that truly seems to violate the laws of gravity. Water is supposed to fall down, not up!