Happy Happy...

As of tomorrow, away at the shack in New Zealand until March 2017, trying to finish The Bolthole. 

In Fidel Castro’s Friendships with Literary Giants

Not Papa, that’s for sure.

Heading Home Wednesday

Providing it’s still there.

Stormin’ Norman

The writer as celebrity, and vice versa.

Just the Two of Us

The Literary Glamour of Madness

Great literature takes specific individual experiences and speaks to the universal human condition. 

The Short, Frantic, Rags-to-Riches Life of Jack London

 A rough troublemaker with a prolific pen.

The Challenge of Consciousness

Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts?

The Secret World of Bog

My backyard.

Mongolian Men Hunting With Eagles

The last of the Burkitshi.

Love and Death in Revolution Square

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Between the Cartwheels- Now an Audiobook

I Remember

Hope and Change

Millennial International

Love is...

These two moose locked antlers in a fight, then drowned and froze together in an Alaskan stream.

Progress Isn't Natural

Humans invented it—and not that long ago.

The Mystical World Of Mushrooms

Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about...

The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times

The 1883 eruption on Krakatoa may be the loudest noise the Earth has ever made.

A Tale of Three Dogs

Coyotes, dingoes and wolves are all dogs, as intelligent and loyal as our familiars. Our treatment of them is unconscionable.

BBC series Planet Earth II

Unparalleled, says Attenborough.

New Rubik's Cube World Record

Death of the Hatchet Job

Book reviewing used to be a blood sport. How has it become so benign and polite?

Why Bother with Poetry?

The strongest slang of all.

Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Strikes in New Zealand

Tsunami warning for many coastal areas.

Passion Rules the World

Odessa Stories By Isaac Babel.

Leonard Cohen Dead at 82

Great Man.

Still Weird

Well, That was Weird

Canada’s immigration website crashes as Trump's election lead grows.

Isotope Ratio

How Water Can Identify Murder Victims and Fake Scotch.

Canada, Who are You?

Being “Canadian” is about more than maple syrup. 

Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?

The brain functions like a quantum computer.

If You’re Besotted by the Victorian World

Beware the era’s reality.

Computer-system rollout raises many questions

Computer-system rollout raises many questions

How to Make Worlds

Lumping ‘World Literature’ together leads to a great flat global monoculture. Really?

Trump the Opera

The ultimate tribute.

Books Should Send Us Into Therapy

On The Paradox of Bibliotherapy.

Prescribed Reading

Why medicine is good training for writing fiction.

Popular Science

Follow the algorithm to bestseller status.

The Poisonous Spiders

In the Finnish Museum.

Echoes of Narcissus

Half of what undermined my profession (the other half was greed).

Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Man

Especially if you overthink it-  but not in Stout Men.

Orion’s Cartwheel Audiobook

Now on Amazon.

Jordan Peterson

A real professor, at last.

Quotes About Writing

Here.

Could an Astronaut’s Corpse Bring New Life to Another World?

A poor soul adrift in the void could bring the genesis on a place like Mars.

Philosophy Beyond the Academy

Socrates set the bar too high. 

From Professor Jordan Peterson

To the University of Toronto.

Space Engine Trailer

Has This Physicist Found the Key to Reality?

As found in Fire Beyond the Darkness.

Putin Man

What to Make of T. S. Eliot?

Beneath the formal exterior of a banker-scholar beat the heart of a tormented poet.

The Ultimate Reading List

Created by librarians.

Cracking the Cranial Vault

What It Feels Like to Perform Brain Surgery.

Orion’s Cartwheels Author Reading- Part 5

Orion’s Cartwheels Author Reading- Part 4

Orion’s Cartwheels Author Reading- Part 3

Orion’s Cartwheels Author Reading- Part 2

Orion’s Cartwheels Author Reading- Part 1

The Writer’s Writer par Excellence

Flaubert —The irritable perfectionist. 

Mars Society Talk

Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of Mars.

The Perils of Peak Attention

How do we shake off the village when we carry the world in our pocket?

Where Legends Begin

in the Nanaimo Bulletin.

Tomorrow

The Ultimate Road Trip.