I was today years old when I learned that sea urchins naturally use shells as hats to make them feel safer and camouflaged so some aquarists had the genius idea to make them tiny hats

Looks like the winner of today’s election is actually The Beaverton #CanadaElection2021 #CanadaVotes

Today on “hey that’s some cool nerdy stuff” we have the Open Syllabus with it’s mind-blowing galaxy of curricular besties. galaxy.opensyllabus.org/#!viewport/-13…

This remains true, and even the cat knows it this year.

An ear worm and a grin is how every Sunday should begin.

Just posted a photo @ Toronto, Ontario instagram.com/p/CWlMWmTg4zR/…

This thread is ... I can't even. I just. Wow.

Maybe the secret chord that pleased the Lord wasn't what we thought it was...

Some real poetry here.

Reading about the Massey Report as an academic while still having the heart of a musician is like playing ping-pong with your head between two equally resilient brick walls.

Would love to know where these bookshops are these days. They seem to be fading fast in my bigboxtropolis.

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My 8-year-old niece wants to be a writer. This is her first poem. "My soul is not made of plastic."

A little morning humour from my 15-year-old: Q: Why did American schools stop teaching cursive? A: Because the letters aren't straight. Bam. #uspoli #PrideMonth

My house is Fahrenheit. Outside is Celsius. I don’t make the rules.

The current size of the AIDS Memorial Quilt is 1.2 million square feet, containing about 48,000 panels memorializing 125,000-plus victims of HIV and AIDS since 1980. Most kids I talk to today don’t know it exists.

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.