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Chris Williams

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Purpose, pleasure, pyramids

“The two most important days in a person's life are the day they are born and the day they find out why.” — Mark...

Chickens: Nature’s little Houdinis

Warning: This column contains extremely juvenile acronymetic language and should therefore not be read by anyone over the age of six. Seriously.  Last week our...

How supercomputers are affecting life in Sandspit

Let’s play a little game. Can you guess what these famous physicists are talking about? (Hint, it’s not ducks.) Feyman: “If you think you understand...

It’s the hard-knock life

“Sometimes, life can be hard” is something we hear all the time, but what does it actually mean?  How hard can life really be?  Is any...

On board games and the dastardly need to win*

Warning: The following deals with mature subject matter such as playing board games and drinking beer and may not be suitable for boring people. Some...

Fishing society apologizes to salmon for using the word ‘lure’

Most of what I do in life is to provide Solutions To Obvious Problems That Hardly Anyone Notices, or “STOP THAT” for short.  Keen readers...

A plan to retire really rich on Haida Gwaii

As I was driving home from work the other day, I was musing that I really do have one of the most wonderful commutes...

Risk Taking = Community Need

I've been called a lot of things in my life. Everything from “acrimonious mustard stain” to “zit-producing anxiety dumpling.”  But never, and I mean never...

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