Category Archives: Blog Hops

Here is this week’s list of comic strips and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

Americans Don’t Need More Money to be Happier—They Need to be Like Denmark. This sounds heavenly. I wish Canadian culture understood hygge, too. The picture accompanying today’s post reminded me of this link.

And They Lived Happily Ever After. You’re going to continue seeing links to this site occasionally in the future. I love its sense of humour.

Where Are My Fancy-Smancy Socks via ‪theakeman‬. A few years ago, I went through a period where I kept losing socks when I put them in the washing machine. (It was either due to spiteful sock gnomes or some sort of defect in the washing machine that allowed small items to get wedged in somewhere they weren’t supposed to be!) Lots of people have this problem, so it’s always amusing to see how other folks deal with it.

Quiet. I identify with this so much.

Designing a Website: Are You Excluding People? via JMLevinton. I had no idea that this could be an issue for some people online. Did you?

Nurse Life: The Pocketbook via ‪MckayHorst‬. Don’t read this if you are easily grossed out. Do read this if you can handle a slightly disturbing story about a patient who showed up at the emergency room one night to get help with a very unique problem.

Why Whales Got So Big. If you have any interest at all in whales or how evolution works for oceanic creatures, go read this.

Who Does She Think She Is? This week’s Suggestion Saturday post is ending on a bit of a low note, but this article has a lot of important things to say about sexism and the Internet.

Here is this week’s list of comic strips, poems, and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

The History of The Avengers via ‪maria_mckenzie‬. If you’re planning to see The Avengers sometime soon and you’re a new fan of this universe, this blog post gives a nice introduction to it.

Earth Day! What a creative use of candy.

The CottIingley Fairies – A Case Study in How Smart People Lose Control of the Truth via Mummified_Fairy. This was a fascinating read.

The Hype Machine on Fire – Why Katniss Everdeen Is Not the Empowered Woman You Believe Her to Be via JamesSabata. While I enjoyed this series a lot, I can’t help but to agree with many of the points James makes here.

Bats in Your Belfry. I think bats are incredibly interesting creatures both in real life and as symbols in horror novels. This post is about the former, and one of the reasons why I’m sharing it with you is so that I can also share the hashtag #AskanOPNaturalist with my readers. It’s amazing that we live in a time when ordinary people can have conversations about wildlife with naturalists and scientists. This isn’t the first hashtag I’ve seen that was designed to bring these two groups together, but I love seeing experts take the time to educate the general public.

Viral Rescue. Phages were something I’d heard of before, but I didn’t know what they were or how they worked. This article explained them beautifully, and it makes me wonder if phages won’t be something doctors will use more often in the future to treat antibiotic-resistant infections as the number of bacteria that don’t respond to antibiotics continues to grow.

How Not to Be an Asshole in National Parks. My first impulse was to say that most of these tips are common sense, but I was lucky enough to have parents who took their kids on hiking and camping trips where they explained this kind of stuff and modelled appropriate behaviour. People who didn’t have those same experiences think that feeding wild animals is a helpful thing to do or that it’s okay to drive through Death Valley without bringing emergency supplies.

Here is this week’s list of comic strips, poems, and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

Why I Love Maps via sbrown9710. Seventy percent of the reason why I’m including this link in today’s post is because my mother loves maps, too. She reads my blog, and there’s an excellent chance that this will be the first link she clicks on from it today. Hopefully, other folks will enjoy it as well.

Top Ten Dark Fiction Books via ajseftonauthor. Other than The Wasp Factory and Crime and Punishment, I’ve read everything on this list and agree that it’s good material for people who like dark stories.

Learn to Zoop! (Argument De-Escalation). This is excellent advice.

Life Was Not Always Better. Occasionally, I like to walk through old cemeteries and read the headstones I find there. It’s fascinating to see what names were popular decades or centuries ago that you don’t see being given to newborns these days. This post touches on another reason why walking through old graveyards is educational, and it has to do with what parents expected to happen to their children. Let’s just say that it’s only been in the last few generations that the vast majority of families in western countries could assume all of the children they brought into the world would survive to adulthood. I hope that this will someday be something that people in every country on Earth can assume.

The Creation of the Universe. Despite the title, there’s nothing religious or scientific about the nature of this link at all. It’s pure silliness, but it did make me laugh.

Honoring Earth Day by Saving Money via SLMarchisello.  I especially liked this blogger’s tips about food. I know I occasionally have trouble finishing everything I’ve bought before it goes bad.

What the Hospitals of the Future Look Like. Wow, this was interesting. I never would have guessed that the idea of convalescing at home with daily visits from your family doctor would come back into fashion. It seems like such an old-fashioned idea, and yet the reasons for going back to that kind of care do make sense.

Here is this week’s list of short stories and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

How to Build Muscle as Age Tears It Down. If you’re not currently doing weight training exercises, this article might make you want to begin. If you’re already doing this kind of exercise, this article will make you smile.

Eat Like a Poor Person. I really like this method for determining what to eat because of how much freedom it gives to you to determine what your diet should look like. It can work well for vegans, vegetarians, people have food allergies/intolerances, picky eaters, travellers, and so much more. The recipe that’s included in the post looks good, too.

Kingston Book Festival 2018 – So Lit! via naditomlinson. I had to temporarily delay sharing this post with you because my Suggestion Saturday queue was so full, but I’m pleased to share it with you today. This book festival sounds incredibly fun!

Never Get Discouraged via MichaelTMiyoshi. This was such a good post.

How Lyme Disease Became the First Epidemic of Climate Change. And this article made me want to never walk in the woods again.

The Atheist Movement’s Future via ‪tmamone‬. My friend Trav wrote this, and I agree with every single word of it.

From Fixer Upper:

Now, keep in mind that we considered ten thousand planets for this season. Earth was by far the most messed up, and we think we could get some really great ratings out of it, but let’s be honest, the place needs more than a new lawn.

From Flow:

I walk like my father. He has a long, swinging stride with a bounce in the balls of his feet. A cheerful walk but not one that brooks much argument.