Chandra Clarke

I used to live in a small town, and once a year a local club there would put together a ‘community’ yard sale, where everyone was supposed to hold their garage/boot/rummage sales on a set day. As I had a lot of stuff in the house I needed to get rid of, I foolishly decided […]

Scientists who spent three years listening to whales discovered some amazing facts: 1) You really do end up looking like a prune if you spend too long in the water and… 2) Whales will abandon their traditional songs in favour of newer, catchier tunes. It’s true. In 1995, whales living off Australia’s east coast were […]

No one likes hospitals, except, perhaps, the people who work there. The rest of us really don’t want to be there, whether we’re the one getting patched up, or whether we’re visiting the person being treated. It’s stressful and often painful, even if you’re getting wonderful care. That stress is made so much worse by […]

It’s true what you’ve heard: farm animals have joined the rat race. That’s because farms themselves are moving into cities, with ‘vertical farms’ taking over skyscrapers and high rise buildings. Critics of say that it industrializes farming to an alarming degree. Proponents say it makes for a more efficient farm footprint, allowing more land to […]

There’s been a lot of talk about Nobel prizes lately, because some dude in the US is jealous of some other dude receiving it. But the Nobel peace prize has not been without controversy in the past. Once, a Swedish legislator, Lars Gustafsson, nominated the game of soccer (known as football everywhere but North America) […]