Tag: history
Education as an act of reconciliation
The Ontario education system is modifying their curriculum to integrate topics in Indigenous learning into the social studies programs of elementary schools. The new...
Why nobody cares about Black History Month in Canada
It’s that time of the year again, when teachers pull out their favourite Martin Luther King quote and Black history references populate your timeline....
From sports to video games. Same shit, different stool
Technological developments have a long history of shaping mankind’s demands for new entertainment to fill our ever-increasing leisure time.
From this demand came sports,...
A Primer on Land Acknowledgements
I was told a story once about a professor trying to get a point across about the silliness of land acknowledgements.
At the beginning of class,...
Antikythera Mechanism
It has been 125 years since the discovery of the world’s oldest mechanical calculator — arguably an analogue computer — a device made by...