New Study Adds To Growing Body Of Evidence Suggesting Mask Mandates Are Ineffective A new study published this month revealed that COVID-19 mask mandates in schools have little to no effect. “Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature which suggests school-based mask mandates have limited to no impact on the case rates of COVID-19 among K-12 … Read more
Big Dig today Three quarters of the way through July and it looks like the gay crosswalk might be finished. Underwhelming best describes it. First, why the gaps between colours? Just looks bad. Smokers are the biggest litterers in the city. Its not even close. The advantage smokers have over all other litterers is that … Read more
Big Dig today Lots of stuff. Morning sky photo I found one of these still blooming. Instead of throwing this into a trash can, several which are near by, it was decided that simply setting it down in the parking lot is good enough. When was it that this behaviour became OK? At what point … Read more
That is one thing about this city, whatever you need, is always available…somewhere. Stroller? Here’s one. Bicycle? Here’s one. And they are free. Big Dig Today Orange and yellow always look great against a blue sky. Morning sky photo Why stand on one leg? Minimized heat loss seems to be the popular reason. I imagine, … Read more
Morning sky photo Not sure what is going on with that cloud system but it looks ominous. Quite beautiful actually. Sadly many beautiful things are extremely dangerous and that includes women. That is if there was such a thing as a woman, which we all know that there isn’t. Big day yesterday down on … Read more
Big Dig this morning. Not much change over the weekend. Trash in context Morning sky photo Starting to see more bees now so I can work on my bee photography Ahhhh yes. I am in Thunder Bay now. Why is this here? Well I can think of two scenarios. The first one is that boaters … Read more
Gender Activists Urge Anthropologists To Stop Labeling Human Remains ‘Male’ Or ‘Female’ There is an interesting controversy brewing in anthropology departments where professors have called for researchers to stop identifying ancient human remains by biological gender because they cannot gauge how a person identified at that the time. Other scholars are calling for researchers to … Read more
Looking for colour wherever I can find it See any recyclables in there? It doesn’t matter because this is all ending up in the landfill site. A White Claw and a smoke. What’s with all the discarded apples around this city? Doesn’t anyone know just how much these things cost? Morning sky photo Took a … Read more
Big Dig today Still working on the gay pedestrian crossing. At this rate, it may be finished just as the first snow fall hits the asphalt. I don’t know why they did not just use paint instead of this mastic stuff. Sure the paint has to be redone every year but its simple. This stuff … Read more
Big Dig today Interesting. That looks like a plastic straw Not sure what this is Someone spilled something. Its blue and that is all I care about. Colour. A photographer once told me to go out and find some colour. Take a photo of it. Pretty sure this is not what he meant but I … Read more