by Hugh | May 13, 2025 | Essays
Are you on the proverbial bus yet? Whether it’s the AI bus or just a good old TTC ride across Toronto, we all keep running to catch something. But the real question is: where are we headed? More than fifty years ago, I held a record for running fast in the City of...
by Hugh | May 6, 2025 | Essays
In 1729, Jonathan Swift wrote what might be history’s most horrifying dinner suggestion. He wasn’t hungry, just tired of moral hypocrisy. I discovered Jonathan Swift in school through his masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels. I was fascinated with the places Gulliver...
by Hugh | Apr 29, 2025 | Reviews
Peter Scotchmer dives into two great reads- Saroo Brierley’s contemporary true story ‘Lion’ and Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel ‘Kim’ during his own travels through the Indian subcontinent. While in India on family business, I...
by Hugh | Apr 22, 2025 | Essays
On Homunculi, Algorithms, and the Small Souls We Make Jonathan Bennett follows a thread from alchemy to algorithmic avatars in a reflection on our age-old desire to imitate creation—and the uncanny reflections we’ve unleashed. 19th century engraving of Homunculus from...
by Hugh | Apr 15, 2025 | Places
The writer recently returned from Greece sunburnt, overfed, and spiritually re-aligned by the hum of ancient stones and overly affectionate cats. Photo by Nikolay on Unsplash I stood beneath an olive tree outside the ruins of Delphi, not far from where Pythia, the...