Tag: idea
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The Big Idea: Why We Should Take UFOs Seriously
[ad_1] Whether you call them UFOs, UAPs or flying saucers, Canada should treat the objects that fly in our skies as scientific phenomena, not pop-cultural quackery (Illustration by Pete Ryan) Most kids go through a space phase. But mine kept going after I watched NASA launch its Gemini and Mercury spacecraft on TV. And it…
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The Big Idea: Investing in “sponge cities” can mitigate the toll of climate change
[ad_1] (Photo illustration by Maclean’s. Photograph by Jason Gordon/iStock.) My fascination with water began as a child, when I saw rain for the first time. I spent the first 10 years of my life in the United Arab Emirates—one of the driest countries on Earth. My sister and I had eagerly anticipated the first rainfall…
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Removing Your Tonsils Is a Bad Idea
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published June 20, 2018. A tonsillectomy is the surgical removal of your tonsils, two oval-shaped pads of tissue located on each side of the back of your throat.1 Although the number of tonsillectomies has declined drastically in the last 30 years, the surgery continues…
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Trump Has a ‘Great Idea’ to Replace Hunter Biden’s Special Counsel
[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump has proposed replacing Special Counsel David Weiss with “deranged” Special Counsel Jack Smith to oversee the federal investigation of Hunter Biden. Trump suggested the “great idea” in a Truth Social post denouncing Weiss, his own appointee for U.S. attorney, on Friday night. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss to lead…
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Australia-China trade war: Why ‘crawling back’ to Beijing is a bad idea
[ad_1] Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Australia’s relationship with China was at an all-time low only a few years ago. Insults were exchanged daily between the political leaders. China assaulted Australia with trade blockades, cyber attacks and demands that we end our democratic institutions. Its embassy “wolf warriors”…
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Big Idea: To fight wildfires, bring back preventative burns
[ad_1] For centuries, Indigenous fire keepers kept forests clear of fuel. It’s time to fight fire with fire once again. “Cultural burns incinerate debris dropped on the ground by dead trees—fuel just waiting for a spark.” (Illustration by Pete Ryan) I grew up in Skeetchestn, a small riverside community northwest of Kamloops, British Columbia, in…
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Matt had no idea this condition could affect men. Then he was diagnosed
[ad_1] Key PointsAbout 10 per cent of calls to a post-natal despair hotline final 12 months had been from males.Specialists say stigma nonetheless stops many mother and father from coming ahead.Matt Carter, who suffered postnatal despair, says it is necessary to speak it out. New dad Matt Carter knew one thing wasn’t fairly proper when…
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Why creating a new legal class of ‘climate refugees’ is a bad idea
[ad_1] It’s crucial that the worldwide group concentrate on tempering the unfavourable penalties of local weather change and creating adaption measures, so that folks within the affected areas don’t discover themselves displaced from their houses and will construct their livelihoods. Requires developed international locations to arrange for the arrival of ‘local weather refugees’ and to…
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After Years Of Infertility, I Got Pregnant At 46. I Had No Idea That Would Be The Easiest Part.
[ad_1] I turned 51 this yr, and one of many many issues I’ve realized over the course of 5 many years on this planet is that our goals not often manifest precisely as we envisioned them. We will spend years and years eager for one thing after which, when it lastly arrives, we both don’t…
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Putting a price on nature? Not a good idea, experts say
[ad_1] In a second that might have been an act of well mannered revolt, physicist and ecologist Vandana Shiva walked off stage throughout a speech about the necessity to ‘put a value on nature’ within the European Parliament this week. “I’ve devoted 50 years of my life to the safety of biodiversity, and it has…
