Simon and Garfunkle's song forms the title of today's posting. And indeed, something is happening at the zoo. The first of this two part post looks at horses present and past....
Doctors believe, not without justification, that the Internet is a cesspool of medical misinformation. But we use it because it's there. It may take two years to get an appointment with a bricks and mortar dermatologist, but there's no shortage of acne experts ready with free advice online 24/7....
It is said that many of us think of winter as a time of doom and gloom. Today's posting shows us that it doesn't have to be that way....
Jesuit Volunteer, Joshua Smith, attended this year's The Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice. He writes of the impact that event had on his life and work as a Jesuit Volunteer....
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an annual ecumenical celebration traditionally held from January 18 to 25. By coming together during this week, we join with the people around the world to pray for Christian unity – in worship, reflection, study, and fellowship. Anglican priest, Robert Cooke writes about his own week of prayer....
Meet the future: Eugene Goostman. He's a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy; his father is a gynecologist and he owns a gerbil. He's also not a real boy, but a computer program. A chatbot, to be precise.But this assemblage of hopped up bits and bytes managed to fool some real humans into believing he was one of us...
Every now and then, the issue of keeping whales in captivity crops up at the Aquarium. Now is one of those times. One of Vancouver's top tourist attractions, the Aquarium is undergoing a $100 million expansion, and when it's finished in 2016, the plan is for belugas to be the centrepiece of the brave new facility....
As we begin a new year, Paul Baker, SJ takes us back some seventy years and offers memories of 1945....
Happy New Year! A day that celebrates the feast of Mary, the Mother of God and marks the World Day of Peace. It is also the first day of 2016 - a year we hope will bring some peace to our troubled world....
As I encounter the dead and dying, young, old, and in between, I wonder about the living who remain: those of us who keep breathing, who keep walking into broken hearts, who have to continue to make sense of a messy world and a messy life within it. I wonder whether I'm living well. Today's post, originally published in The Jesuit Post, looks at what it means to "live well."...
