Oh The Humanities
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The art of cooking with garbage: Victoria grad students are writing a dumpster diving cookbook
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Dark side of fandom: Study on Blue Jays fan tweets argues sports aren't always unifying
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In defence of cow farts: Livestock emissions aren't about to destroy the world, researcher says
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The new gang of hyper-confident male atheists wants you to laugh at religion
Why the seductress Jezebel, one of the Bible’s greatest villains, talks like a man
Oh, The Humanities! The original character continues to give up strange secrets, as a new analysis of her speech reveals
Canada's 'adventure gap': Why it doesn't makes sense for the great outdoors to be such a white space
'There is a sense that the outdoors is a white space, that people of colour don’t belong in that space,' Jacqueline Scott said in an interview
Canada’s new 'dark chapter': So many national apologies for past injustice, they’ve become insincere
Oh, the Humanities! With the same wording repeated over and over, these apologies create what experts call 'a new cultural dynamic of apologism in Canadian politics'
From the beaver to the canoe, Canada has a tense relationship with its symbols. That might be a good thing
Oh, the Humanities! How can every Canadian emblem be problematic? And why is one symbol a means of pride and embarrassment at the same time?
It's widely abused as a buzzword. But can quantum mechanics explain how we think?
The idea that consciousness causes this collapse of quantum possibilities is an old theory in the midst of a revival
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Why ‘bag’ and ‘beg’ are starting to sound the same — and Calgary is an epicentre for linguistic shifts
The 'ae' sound is shifting to various degrees everywhere the English language is spoken, but the sound is moving more rapidly in the Prairies -
How cattle brands became a symbol of Western pride and a way of life that is increasingly under threat
The cattle brand hearkens back to the days of the open range, when cowboys herded cows across the prairie -
Oh, The Humanities! Renaming the mountains of the colonizers
A retired University of Victoria professor talks about the growing trend of place names reverting to Indigenous antecedents -
Blurring the lines between style and substance: Trudeau as showman
While all politics is theatre, the current PM takes it up a notch, amplifying theatrical tactics with a social media in a way entirely in line with the zeitgeist
WatchWhat you're actually saying when you say 'I dunno': The many meanings of a peculiar phrase
There was something about how customers spoke, particularly the unsatisfied ones. They said, "I don't know," a lot. But the DID know! So why were they saying it?Continue Reading →
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Canada's weird, uncomfortable relationship with nakedness: Why our nude art genre never took off
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The dark side of poutine: Canada taking credit for Quebec dish amounts to cultural appropriation, academic says
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Mike Myers’ nostalgia for Golden Age of nationalism highlights a Canadian identity crisis: professor
WatchWhy do straight women do 'girl on girl action' that they regret the next morning?
What's played off as an expression of liberated sexuality can actually have the opposite effect in real life, found University of Victoria researcher Lucinda BrownContinue Reading →
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Elaborate 'promposals' posted to social media are actually really old fashioned, Ottawa teacher says
These 'promposals' are an extremely public show of chivalry in the modern age, where one's social capital is determined by how many 'likes' a post receives -
WatchIntroducing the feminist selfie: Women using social media to challenge oppressive ideologies, researcher says
Kim Kardashian and Instagram may have given selfies a bad name, but whether they’re detrimental to feminism or facilitate it is up for debate -
WatchBecoming disabled by choice, not chance: 'Transabled' people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies
When he cut off his right arm with a "very sharp power tool," a man who now calls himself One Hand Jason let everyone believe it was an accident
The dark side of 'rights inflation': Why activists should 'reject the impulse to frame all grievances as human rights'
In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights included a few dozen rights. Now international law recognizes more than 300, including the right to affordable InternetContinue Reading →
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East German sex spies, Tunagate and crack: Everything you need to know about Canada's scandalous history
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The new religion: How the emphasis on 'clean eating' has created a moral hierarchy for food
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The end of gender? North American society may be ready for more shades in between male and female
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How much difference does a skirt make? Paper analyzes the attire of Danielle Smith's 'feminine' persona during 2012 Alberta election
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Soldier diaries tell of ghosts intervening in First World War: Canadian historian
Young children already buy into gender stereotypes to explain behaviour in fairy tales: study
One in four Canadians declare affiliation to no religion, but why are so many ‘nones’ surprisingly religious?
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'I bought my degree, now I want my job!' Entitled students on fast track to becoming disgruntled employees: study
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'Unrecognizable from the original design': Suburban renovations disprove 'cookie-cutter' stereotype
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Integrating Islam: Can school meet its goal of creating 'well adjusted' Muslim members of Canadian society?
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The Trudeau brand: If Pierre is Coca-Cola, is Justin the 'New Coke' of his family?
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Trust needed to bridge divide between Inuit and scientists in polar bear conservation efforts: researcher
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Children's media use cuddly animals to reinforce 'racist' and 'socially dominant norms,' researcher says
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Facebook isn't robbing the world of its decency, it's showing us what humanity really looks like: researcher
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How watching American drama Grey’s Anatomy makes Canadians more grateful for the public health system