Canada and the World
Current Events with a Canadian Perspective
Last update
24 February 2012
Interesting Stuff
A California-
to show there is extrasensory
communication between animals and humans
Bermuda Triangle Mysteries have Logical Explanations
A huge area of the Atlantic anchored by Bermuda,
Puerto Rico, and Florida has acquired an
undeserved reputation for strange events
Borley Rectory: Britain’s most Haunted House
A house in Essex, England has long had the reputation of being a place where ghostly apparitions were frequently observed, but is the notoriety deserved?
Britain’s Last Witch: Helen Duncan
She was a fraud and swindler and in 1944 she
was jailed in Britain after being convicted
under the country’s ancient Witchcraft Act
The End of Flying Saucer Investigations
For 50 years the Ministry of Defence in the U.K. has looked into sightings of unidentified flying objects; but, the UFO unit has done its last research
In December 1912, the world was abuzz
with the news that the missing link
between apes and humans had been found
Standard measures of human progress such
as Gross Domestic Product per capita
don’t satisfy some economists
Ig Nobel Awards Honour Questionable Research
A ceremony is held at Harvard University
each year to mirror the prestigious Nobel Prizes
to honour more dubious achievements
than those recognized in Stockholm
Videos of interesting people doing interesting things
Inventors Promote High Mileage Devices
Almost since the first gasoline-
hit the road, people have been trying to invent
ways of making them go farther on a litre of fuel
The Pigasus Awards are handed out to those who
dabble in paranormal activities and try to persuade
the public they’ve discovered a secret
Most Disgusting Foods in the World
Adventurous gourmets who can get past the yuk factor will try just about anything, but the average person draws the line at fried hairy spiders
Photos of Fairies Faked in Attempt to Prove Existence
The creator of Sherlock Holmes was just one
of the many people hoodwinked by a couple
of young girls and their bogus photographs of fairies
Long before people claiming to be African princes
with vast inheritances of dubious origin hit the
Internet some very clever con artists were at work
Stonehenge Mystery Continues to Puzzle
Scientists have found a second stone circle
close to the original raising the possibility
the landmark is connected to funerals
Tourists Ask the Silliest Questions
Tourism officials collect and retell hundreds
of questions from visitors who may
have forgotten to pack their brains
Train Wrecks Staged as Entertainment
A popular entertainment at the start of the
20th century was staged train wrecks put on by fairground organizers eager to pull in the crowds
Each year, International Living crunches
a lot of numbers and chooses which country, in the opinion of its editorial staff, is the best in which to live
World’s Most Expensive Food and Drink
Extravagance is not dead everywhere
as the mega-
new experiences only they can afford
Of the world’s approximately 6,000 languages
English is one of the easiest to learn despite its idiosyncrasies of spelling and pronunciation
Two universities have concluded through mathematical modelling that the Undead would beat humans in combat