Tag: reflections

All the articles with the tag "reflections".

• The math of politics: Why your party has already counted you

  30 Sep, 2026

  A guaranteed vote is a constant, not a signal. Four Canadian cases -- Minden, Lumsden-Morse, the West Island, and north Winnipeg -- on why parties respond to the votes that could move and price the rest at zero.

• In defence of nihilism

  31 Jul, 2026

  We went looking for a note left behind by the universe and found extraordinary physics with no signature needed.

• The shape of the pack

  8 Jul, 2026

  A Swiss zoologist watched captive wolves for eight years, coined a word, and got it right. Almost everything built on top of it was wrong.

• Canada Day reflections on patriotism and nationalism

  1 Jul, 2026

  Canada's flag is younger than many of its houses — a reflection on what patriotism and nationalism really are, which kind of national pride is worth having, and whether we should believe in our countries at all.