Richard Zurawski

What a foofra. An Apollo astronaut flies off the rails and pronounces ETs to be a fait a complet and the news world goes gaga! Does he have new evidence, tangible and verifiable? Not a shred. But he was one of a dozen or so who put footprints on the moon so he has to [...]

Over the past few years I have become increasingly conscious of what I eat. It used to be that when I was hungry, I consumed pretty much everything that was within arm’s reach. And I was especially appreciative of fast food. Though I suspected that fast food wasn’t terribly good for me, I figured my [...]

It was vacation this month for me and during my time off I had a chance to catch up on my reading. And of course it was all about science, with my favourites, American Scientist and Scientific American, under the wettest July skies Ontario has recorded. One of articles that caught my interest was that [...]

Last week I was on vacation, having taking time off to research my genealogical roots in the Ukrainian city of L’viv. My father was a holocaust survivor and forever scarred by the loss of his entire family to the insane Nazi eugenics machine. To cut to the chase, the scars of the second world war, [...]

The news is, that if I wanted to, I could for the first time in a generation take a swim in the Halifax Harbour, assuming I had sufficient insulation to brave the 10 degree Celsius chill. The detritus, fecal and otherwise, that has flowed into the harbour in gargantuan proportions for decades, is now filtered [...]