For 15 years, I grew with a dog that I loved dearly, and throughout most of my childhood I was surrounded by other dogs from the neighborhood that I enjoyed almost as much. If it wasn’t for an incident, way back in grade one, where a neighbor’s half-wolf, half-husky decided to go all airport Bjork on me, I would probably have nothing bad to say about the species. Unfortunately, a s...

The popularity of sparkling mineral water is at an all-time high. I remember starting to drink Perrier a few years ago because I was attracted to the little bottles (there’s something about green and yellow labeling that I find oddly alluring). When I first tasted the drink, I found it so bitter that I had to spit it out! It tasted nothing like what I expected — Sprite or lemonade ...

Someone once said that intelligent life is the product of an evolving universe, and by creating life, the universe has acquired the ability to look upon and study itself. This would make human beings an integral part of this grand feedback loop — perhaps a sensory organ for the cosmos. Does the universe share our self-reflective nature? If so, what should our goal be? To fulfill ou...