Yup, that uplifting subject is today's Funny Friday (courtesy of the Onion News Network). Remember Fridays I take big swigs of mirth rat...

So far it's only in the experimental phase but playing off the recipe of french-fried hotdogs which I blogged about a ways back some en...

Fleurbaix and Laventie, France - combined population 57,819. Not exactly the big time, not exactly household names - yet. Why might that c...

Simple - they're invited to the table and once there they're able to extend their considerable influence and spin on the proceedings...

I read a fascinating piece in the New York Times a few weeks ago. It was about a new online service that allows you to place monetary bets ...

Thanks to Maggie Gosselin from Tufts this place finally got a much needed renovation! Hope you like it!

Are you so regularly happy that you annoy all the people around you? If so, there's hope - it's called Despondex and an Onion News N...

Wow, the editorial sure made a splash. Of course editorials are brief and points always need to be limited so I just wanted to take a few mo...

Yesterday the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an editorial I co-authored with my friend, colleague and fellow blogger Dr. Ar...

(Yes, I know "you're" is spelled wrong in the graphic. Too bad I'm not technical enough to fix it) Who's Sally Brown?...

So what if you take an 80s video, cut out all the lyrics and then dub back in a literal description of what's going on in the video? Wel...

Readers of my blog may remember my post detailing the press release where the headline sounded alarm bells about Canadian women battling wit...

Wow. Anyone here familiar with the Greek myth of Milo? So the story goes , " Milo of Croton was born in the sixth century B.C. in south...

Damn you Humanscale! Damn you for making such a ridiculously comfortable chair. Some brief background. I've got a bad back. MRI shows d...

So a few weeks ago the second annual "Salt Lick Award" was announced. The Salt Lick Award is the dubious honour conferred by the ...

A rare non video Funny Friday. A doctor on his morning walk noticed a very pretty older lady sitting on her front step smoking a cigar, so ...

Here's how I figure: 2,000,000 people ate an almost 800 calorie breakfast. For the sake of argument I'm assuming that such a breakf...

Well if Bulging Brides is any indication, not so much. Bulging Brides is a Canadian "reality" TV show that you guessed it, tries t...

In this month's Journal of the American Dietetic Association there's an elegant little paper that generates a none too surprising co...

Writing this blog has led to my inclusion in the press release launches of diet, weight and for some reason beauty related products. Mostly ...