On the opening track of Pink Martini‘s latest album, lead singer China Forbes croons, “Everywhere I go, I see a world designed for you and me”—and every time you spin the record, you hear songs from all over the world. This Saturday, one lone performance at Massey Hall will echo in a mass of different [...]

It’s one of the crapshoots of the daily commute. When you get to your bus stop with no bus or streetcar in sight, should you walk to the next stop and hope the bus catches up or just stay put and wait? According to the New Scientist, Harvard mathematician Scott Kominers has dedicated lighthearted academic [...]

Provincial and federal elections in Canada are largely determined by quirks of geography. That is, the number of seats each party receives in the legislature is rather independent of the popular vote and has more to do with the way people of particular political leanings are concentrated (or not) within arbitrarily-drawn districts. This makes pre-election [...]

In Craig Silverman’s most recent Globe Life blog entry, entitled “How to lose friends and make people hate you,” (cute, but sounds familiar, doesn’t it?) he discusses a Harvard Business Review study about likeability in the workplace. According to the study, people won’t want to work with you if you act smug, sarcastic, or bored [...]

There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four [...]

The Times Higher Education Supplement and Newsweek have both come out with long lists of the world’s best universities. It’s not much of a surprise, but the Ivy League figures prominently with Harvard and Yale in the top five for both lists. The British based THES ranks Oxford and Cambridge prominently while Newsweek relegates Oxford [...]

Those of you putting off watching Mean Girls until those exorbitant movie rental prices come down ($4?! Ridiculous!!) can breathe a sigh of relief. A hot, fire-haired, pre-bulimic sigh of relief. Every year, the University of Toronto presents a free film in the back field of their downtown campus. Past films have included Good Will [...]

The Globe and the Star both report that Michael “The Smartest Prime Minister We Could Have” Ignatieff will be leaving the ivy covered walls of Harvard for the uh, slightly less ivy covered walls of the University of Toronto. Ignatieff, or Iggy as he’s known to his close friends, is one of the names being [...]