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UNDER THE NOZZLE

Like you, I do a lot of my best thinking in the shower. This is an attempt to catch some of it before it evaporates.

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On Daniel Tiger and Those Other Little... Darlings

My child currently being obsessed with one TV show, and one only, means that my mind often becomes involuntarily preoccupied by the...

On Denial

The number of conservative scapegoats for gun violence in the US must now be in the thousands. Fox News's Tucker Carlson is the latest to...

On Duty

Champion ballroom dancer and Dancing with the Stars alumnus Maksim Chmerkovskiy arrived back in the US this past weekend. On a...

On the Greater Good

We've all seen them. Whether it's an email forward or a post shared, approvingly or not, by a friend on social media. It's been a...

On Things That Happened in the Past

That mighty man, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, recently passed on, having occupied this Earth for just shy of a century. Yet...

On Sensitive Casting

Now this one might be a bit controversial. In the movie Supernova, released late last year, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a gay...

On Being Handy

I'll be the first to admit I'm not the most burly, manly man in the world. I don't come with a lot of the attributes people seem to...

On the Sexuality of Your Offspring

A guy on the dads' Facebook group I belong to recently posted asking for guidance because his nine year old daughter had confided in him...

On Random Numbers

The nation of South Africa has gone completely tonto after its weekly national lottery drawing, sparking an investigation and widespread...

On Electromagnetism

When I was a kid, I discovered a way to magnetize and demagnetize metal objects by running an electrical current through them. I can't...

On Your Vote Disappearing up a Judge's Robes

Among judges of a certain political bent (they know who they are), a common justification for ruling against allowing alternative voting...

On Forgetting You Have a Blog

I knew this would happen. I guess many of you can relate. You start a blog with grand ideas involving the pouring out of ideas onto the...

On Being a Bit Blind

Unless you spend a bit of time around me and have heard me wittering on about it, and let’s face it I’m hardly the world’s most...

On Rats (Sciencey Ones)

Most of us know someone who is into one of the popular conspiracy theories or “alt” phenomena of the day, such as antivaxxers, COVID...

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