There seems to be a rather large problem with Bill C-51 that has been overlooked by our policy makers and health officials alike: nobody seems to understand the bill. The premise is simple enough: treat all medications the same way. If you want to sell something that claims to cure cancer, then prove [...]

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No, this isn’t going to be a political rant about the war in Iraq, or our dependence on (foreign) oil. I want to look at the price of gas, and tackle the assertion that gas prices are too high, and that high gas prices are a bad thing.

We often complain that we (Canadians, but [...]

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As it turns out, cell towers actually are dangerous… just not in the way we had previously discussed. A post on the ‘Apple 2.0′ blog on cnn.com outlines one of the hidden dangers of the increased number of cell towers.
On May 16, Jonathan Guilford, 25, of Fort Payne, Alabama, was working on an AT&T [...]

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Take a very good look at this picture…

What you’re looking at is the Phoenix Lander, parachute deployed, descending to the surface of Mars as observed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. I ask that you take a good look because, in case it weren’t already obvious, this is without a doubt the most breathtaking and [...]

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You can find more pictures at the Phoenix Mission gallery here.

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We here at Lintbox have been enjoying the NASAtv live feed hoping that all goes well with the Arizona Phoenix Mission and its landing on the surface of Mars. Well, we haven’t been disappointed! The landing has been successful, and for what it’s worth, we now have a shiny new laboratory on Mars!
I’d [...]

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With each and every new or modern technology, there are typically those who, perhaps through either a lack of understanding of that technology or even an antipathy for it openly oppose its establishment and advancement.
This is something we here at Lintbox have encountered before. There are plenty of opponents to new technologies who argue [...]

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By now, you’ve probably heard something of the network neutrality debate. To sum it up, until a few months ago the flow of data on the internet was unrestricted and free. Then companies like Bell and Rogers realized that they could save money be restricting the flow of information over their networks. Both those companies [...]

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It has come to my attention that corporate paymasters sponsor a vast majority of the scientific community (including science and skeptical bloggers… in order to further their evil corporate agendas, no doubt).  Sadly, we here at Lintbox are still lacking a corporate paycheck!  If you are interested (or know of anybody who is interested) in [...]

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Does seeing the planet from space really cause some type of change in people? This article from The Daily Galaxy suggests that some sort of unknown change comes over all people who see the world from space, causing them to develop a feeling of “oneness” with the rest of the universe. Ed Mitchell, [...]

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