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Christopher Greaves

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Why Reading Books can Be Bad for You

Humane Electricty Bills

Lucky Australians!

Do You Know Where do You Live?

Newfoundland and Tasmania

Promises And Threats

It Can’t Be Done!

Tides

Horror!

Variety is the Spice of Gardening

How to collect a 300-year old drawing

Snakebite

How to Curb Inflation

About Life

From whence the Answers?

Regal Succession

Nowt Abaht Gout

Jan 3, 2023

The Half-a-Million Dollar Band-Aid

October 12, 2024

Juror Misconduct

September 2, 2024

Best Price from Two Supermarkets

August 2, 2024

Doggie do-do

July 24, 2024

A Question for Prabmeet Sarkaria

July 19, 2024

Membership

July 9, 2024

If it is Called an “Amendment”, Why Can’t it Be Changed?

June 29, 2024

Immigrants

June 19, 2024

Baseball Eyes

June 09, 2024

Boarding Airplanes

May 31, 2024

Immigrants

May 15, 2024

How to Dissipate Goodwill

May 13, 2024

Should Public Transport Be Free?

April 23, 2024

Disposable

March 11, 2024

Cause And Effect

March 6, 2024

Subtlety

February 27, 2024

Generational Lag

February 26, 2024

A Red Herring

January 31, 2024

About Banks

January 30, 2024

“Was Like”

January 15, 2024

YouTube Click-bait

January 11, 2024

Yes, we are Crazy!

January 9, 2024

Misguided Efforts to Save the World

January 7, 2024

AI and the News

January 6, 2024

Freight and Passenger Rail Services

January 3, 2024

Scotiabank branch closure

December 31, 2023

New Year's Resolutions

Dec 16, 2023

Cairns cut off by floodwaters

December 14, 2023

Comparatives

November 28, 2023

Have Machines Taken Over Your Life?

November 27, 2023

I Don’t Understand Modern Businesses.

November 23, 2023

Melting Glaciers

November 15, 2023

Compostable Bags?

November 14, 2023

The Technological Solution to Global Warming

October 12, 2023

Historic Dogs

October 24, 2023

Bedbugs

October 18, 2023

20 mph Limit

October 10, 2023

How scary are Humans?

September 18, 2023

How to Make a Fake 300-Year-Old Document

September 18, 2023

How to Make a Fake Canadian Passport

July 30, 2023

Why AI is Not My Greatest Worry

June 30, 2023

My Gut Bacteria

June 25, 2023

A Fraction Of A Millisecond

June 19, 2023

Why Electrical is the Best Energy Source

May 31, 2023

Scam Artists

April 4, 2023

It is so Hard to Kill a Plant

March 31, 2023

Dandelions

March 24, 2023

The Mathematics of Oatmeal

March 21, 2023

Why We Cant Recycle Second Stages

March 15, 2023

DO take “NO” for an answer

March 10, 2023

Is Life Getting Better?

February 25, 2023

Your Tax Dollars At Work

February 14, 2023

We Have To Do Something

February 7, 2023

If I Live to Be a Hundred

February 5, 2023

Killer Shark Attack!

February 5, 2023

Chicken and Egg Situation

February 2, 2023

Finding a Needle in a Haystack

January 5, 2023

How to Win At the Slot Machines

January 2, 2023

The Death of Covid

September 29, 2022

Fiona

August 8, 2022

80% of Your Fuel Contributes to Global Warming

July 26, 2022

Weeding in Italian

June 17, 2022

Mediocrity is to blame for our communal woes

June 11, 2022

No more LISTS!

June 5, 2022

Why Holidays Should Be Mandatory.

May 30, 2022

You Don't Need Bathroom Scales to Lose Weight

May 18, 2022

The Greatest Invention of Mankind

May 12, 2022

Covid is Doing Things

April 30, 2022

Two Points on Debts

April 24, 2022

A Week Without Coffee

April 18, 2022

How to Die Insolvent

April 6, 2022

Pollies coming from the Polls

December 30, 2021

Postcard from Chris

December 24, 2021

My Brain’s View of my Brain

December 15, 2021

A Sault and Battery

December 1, 2021

Why Books?

November 24, 2021

Peter is Dead

November 15, 2021

Tiny Acts of Love

November 6, 2021

They

October 12, 2021

Resolve the Garbage and Landfill Crisis with Just Two Words

September 10, 2021

A High Wind in Jamaica

September 5, 2021

For Your Amusement

September 1, 2021

French is Easy

August 20, 2021

Why I Blame Gerardus Mercator for the Afghan Wars

August 12, 2021

A Law to Allow Laws to Be Passed

July 31, 2021

How to Discover the New World from Lisbon and Return to Tell the Tale

July 29, 2021

Why is a Covid-vaccine like a seat-belt?

July 23, 2021

English is EASY

March 25, 2021

The Cubed Law

January 21, 2021

What Now?

January 8, 2021

Justin Case

December 27, 2020

Expat Englishman's Explanatory Essay on Brexit

December 10, 2020

Only A Handful Of Countries

December 7, 2020

Data and Information

December 1, 2020

How to Dispose of a Dead Body

June 4, 2020

Final Report

May 19, 2020

Disease and Decimation

May 13, 2020

Covidiots-Gather

May 2, 2020

Why I Blame the Chinese

April 29, 2020

COVID Crowd Sourcing

April 25, 2020

Covid Queries

April 21, 2020

COVID “Get your Turing Machines Here!"

April 21, 2020

Consequences of the COVID Crisis

April 20, 2020

When Unstable Politicians Get out of Control

April 12, 2020

How Viruses Spread

April 7, 2020

Self Isolation

April 3, 2020

My Prediction

April 1, 2020

The Press

March 31, 2020

German Measles

December 3, 2011

Why Should Blind Dates Work?

November 19, 2011

Wind Farms are Useless

November 15, 2011

Police Announcement

November 9, 2011

The Final Word

November 4, 2011

Oxygen from Books

October 29, 2011

A Device that Will Limit the Maximum Speed of Any Car ...

October 24, 2011

It’s Back to Driving School for Halton Police

October 18, 2011

Another Satellite Set To Hit Earth In Coming Weeks

October 12, 2011

Deadly Impact of Earthworms

October 10, 2011

Girl, 15, Killed By Train

October 6, 2011

Poverty-Free

October 3, 2011

They Mean Well, God Bless Them

September 30, 2011

Everybody Knows That!

August 31, 2011

To Drive, or Not to Drive?

August 30, 2011

Refrigerator Blindness

August 29, 2011

1-Sided Cell Phone Conversations

August 26, 2011

Women Who Just Want to Be Equal with Men

August 4, 2011

School of Business and Copyright

July 22, 2011

Genetically Modified Anything

July 11, 2011

Fallacious Energy

June 10, 2011

On Being Tried in the Media

May 9, 2011

Are the Young Qualified?

May 2, 2011

The Multiplying Factor

April 25, 2011

It Takes Longer to Count

April 15, 2011

We Shouldn't Dwell on the Past

April 14, 2011

No, hang on, I mean, Hang Up …

April 14, 2011

Hands, Knees and BOOMPS-a-daisy …

March 30, 2011

Cancer is Normal in a Healthy Body

March 21, 2011

Making Mountains Out of Basements

March 13, 2011

Wind Farms in Perspective

March 13, 2011

Solving Problems

March 12, 2011

They Weren’t Properly Installed

March 12, 2011

Engineers and Designers Don’t Have the Real Answers

March 7, 2011

A Badder Bladder Decision

March 4, 2011

The Failure is “Quite Painful”

February 17, 2011

A Zero-Sum Game

February 16, 2011

What If?

February 15, 2011

On Getting Pregnant

February 3, 2011

On Being Responsible

January 17, 2011

Just Counting …

January 9, 2011

Of Senators and Cockroaches

December 31, 2010

Dictionaries

December 30, 2010

Robots

December 29, 2010

Accidents

December 13, 2010

You are Not Alone

December 8, 2010

Now You See it, Now You do!

December 6, 2010

Physician, Heal Thyself!

December 6, 2010

Define Your Boundaries

December 2, 2010

No, Let Me Guess …

November 19, 2010

Protesting about Protests

November 17, 2010

Deadly Rain in Brampton

November 2, 2010

Addled Statistics

October 21, 2010

America's 240-Acre Sun Farm

October 20, 2010

Did the Media do Right, or Did They do Wrong?

October 19, 2010

You Know that Things are Bad When …

September 15, 2010

Investment advice: Can gold go for $2,000?

September 5, 2010

It is Pointless to “Get Ready for the Big One”

September 1, 2010

When the Mouth Travels Faster Than the Speed of Thought ...

August 27, 2010

When Airlines Bend the Truth

August 26, 2010

Where to sit?

August 21, 2010

Unfair? Unacceptable?

August 16, 2010

Incredible Miracle!

June 14, 2010

Work Out Your Own Multiplication

May 26, 2010

One Way to End Piracy is Make it Legal

May 22, 2010

Why Lose Weight?

March 17, 2010

When the Gas Pedal Jams …

February 11, 2010

*&%#$%*^@ Urged to Quit

December 4, 2009

Global Balding

November 28, 2009

The Docker River Saga

November 9, 2009

Strange Use of Crowds

November 2, 2009

Britain's Good Fortune Blamed on Climate Change!

October 21, 2009

I Blame it all on the Humans

October 21, 2009

BWM Held Accountable?

October 6, 2009

Young Bosnians warn Archduke Franz Ferdinand to stay out of Serbia

September 13, 2009

The Theory of Evolution

September 10, 2009

Stunt-driving

September 9, 2009

Can A. J. P. Taylor Be Wrong?

August 31, 2009

… And Then There's Statistics

August 7, 2009

Rooked!

August 2, 2009

Do Cyclists Need to Stop At a Stop Sign?

August 1, 2009

For Once, The Star Almost Gets it Right!

July 17, 2009

Distance - again!

July 16, 2009

May Nearly Might!

July 8, 2009

Babies Bodies

July 5, 2009

Pick up Something Undesirable

June 29, 2009

The Toronto Transit Commission

June 22, 2009

Contingency Plans

June 21, 2009

The Message is in the Tiny Detail

June 20, 2009

Kindergarten Energy - part 2

June 20, 2009

Kindergarten Energy – part 1

June 18, 2009

Not Non-Polluting

June 15, 2009

Define, Define, Define

June 14, 2009

Don’t Trust Newspapers

June 13, 2009

14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite

June 13, 2009

NASA Delays Launch Of Space Shuttle Endeavour

June 12, 2009

The New Descriptive Mathematics

June 10, 2009

When Pure Maths is not Enough

June 8, 2009

The Trouble With Automation

June 4, 2009

Once in a Lifetime

June 2, 2009

More Thoughts On Technology 3

May 29, 2009

Marketing And Sales For Techies

May 29, 2009

Costing Myself

May 27, 2009

I’m Dying For A Drink!

May 24, 2009

When The Best Isn’t Good Enough

May 20, 2009

Keep On Truckin’

May 12, 2009

Something For Nothing

May 7, 2009

Swine Flu

April 27, 2009

Breeding

April 25, 2009

Cat Horsepower

April 21, 2009

Less Than Two Percent

April 16, 2009

What’s going on here?

April 9, 2009

Why I think that the 407-ETR is a bully

March 25, 2009

The Broomstick Vapor Trail

March 18, 2009

Machine's 'mistake' kills $402s casino win

January 15, 2009

Bird strike on both engines in New York air crash 'a terrible coincidence'

December 29, 2008

Poor Weather Conditions And Bad Roads

December 10, 2008

You Can’t Have It Both Ways

December 4, 2008

Super-Ant

December 4, 2008

Getting Home

November 29, 2008

Junk Mail (pending legal advice)

November 25, 2008

Offshore Wind Farm

November 24, 2008

Left-Hand Turns

November 20, 2008

Time Is Money

November 18, 2008

Stupid Fellowes

November 14, 2008

Farting Worms

November 13, 2008

Lidded Logic

November 11, 2008

Remembrance Day

November 1, 2008

White Feathers And Red Poppies

October 27, 2008

Legal Reforms

October 24, 2008

eBooks

October 21, 2008

More Pilots Blinded By Lasers

October 12, 2008

Online Store For Digital Downloads

October 10, 2008

You don't get a chance to do do-overs

October 7, 2008

I Wish For These Automated Phone Calls.

October 7, 2008

I Love These Automated Phone Calls.

October 4, 2008

Factoids

October 3, 2008

Stephen Harper Loses Another Vote!

September 28, 2008

The Vehicle Lost Control

September 27, 2008

Ashes to Ashes

September 26, 2008

Worry as solar wind slows down to Lowest On Record

September 25, 2008

One In A Million

September 24, 2008

Fewer Than 1 Per Cent

September 23, 2008

Global Warming

September 21, 2008

How it all started

September 13, 2008

Stephen Harper Loses My Vote!

September 12, 2008

Driving For Dummies - 4

September 10, 2008

Driving For Dummies – 3

September 6, 2008

Driving For Dummies - 2

September 5, 2008

Driving For Dummies - 1

August 10, 2008

Eyre Highway

August 10, 2008

In Bed By Ten

February 20, 2008

Utah Students Hide Guns

January 28, 2008

Bad Medicine

January 24, 2008

Bad Logic! Bad!

January 23, 2008

More Lunacy

December 14, 2007

Global Warming

November 23, 2007

Worst Droughts On Record

November 21, 2007

Growing Up

November 11, 2007

February 24, 2007

Africa

February 22, 2007

There We Go, Again

January 27, 2007

IQ of 158

November 18, 2006

Scare Tactics

November 5, 2006

Energy - Again

September 26, 2006

Trendy

September 15, 2006

Woman Killed By Bouncing Tire On QEW

September 14, 2006

Garbage Economics

September 7, 2006

Bad Thoughts

August 30, 2006

One Of These Days

August 29, 2006

It's not the size that counts

August 16, 2006

More Thoughts On Technology 2

August 4, 2006

Telemarketers Are Not Morons?

July 29, 2006

Don’t Brake –2

July 26, 2006

Willie’s Knee

July 24, 2006

Global Warming 2

July 23, 2006

There Are No Corporate Decisions

July 17, 2006

Don't Brake –1

July 17, 2006

Another Airplane Crash

July 11, 2006

Boy Drowns In Swollen Creek

July 10, 2006

More Thoughts On Technology

July 2, 2006

Global Warming

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