Become Cool in Just 14 Minutes

Influencers
Influencers
by R+I Creative

If you're like me, you've always had to settle for your own version of cool. By that I mean, if nobody else is going to call you cool, you might as well redefine the word to make it inclusionary of you. So if you can't pull off the whole "leather jacket" and/or "golden tooth" version of coolness, why not broaden the definition to include pocket protectors?

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Tagged Culture Documentary Trends

Designing Darkness

On Starlight and Streetlights and Saving Mankind  

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Last night my bride and I woke at 2am, hopped in my topless Jeep, and took a chilly drive out to the Torrance Barrens Dark Sky Preserve.  It was the darkest place we knew of from which to observe the Perseids meteor shower, an event that lit up the night sky with all sorts of pyrotechnics.  My wife, typically uninterested in astronomical pursuits, was on this occasion gung-ho to tag along.  Upon arriving we stumbled our way amongst the stargazers by the light of our cellular phones (our flashlight would have ruined everyone's nightvision), spread out in the pitch-black field and let the heavens entertain us.

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Tagged Astronomy Civilization Culture Dark Darkness Design Environment Environmentalism Light Light Pollution Meteor Moon Perseids Pollution Population Shower Society Stars Systems Torrance

My Town, Not Yours!

Toronto

Tonight I violate a basic tenet of skepticism, by making a claim for which there could be no scientifically substantiated evidence.

That claim?  My town rocks.... hard.
 
I proudly count myself as a life-long resident of Toronto.  Hogtown.  The Big Smoke.  T-Dot.  Tee-Oh.  Toronto the Good.  Hollywood North.  Queen's City.  Muddy York. (ok, I obviously visited Wikipedia)  While I hold a small degree of shame in that I've never spent time living anywhere else, I can't help but feel that if I am to spend a lifetime in one city, then I've been fortunate enough to have been born in a good one.

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Tagged Culture G20 NIMBY Politics Pride Protest Protesters Terrorism Toronto Vandalism Violence
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