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The Sparkle in Sparkling Water

14 May 2026

Many consumers today are shying away from soft drinks because of legitimate concerns about their sugar or artificial sweetener content and are gravitating towards plain carbonated water. This has...

Why Did LLMs Steal Our Em-Dashes?

8 May 2026

Upon ChatGPT's release in 2022, I realized that I wrote like AI. My sentences were long, my writing patterns were predictable, and my use of em-dashes was frequent. Initially, I was not concerned:...

A Trip From Rocket Fuel to Amazon Hallucinogen

24 Apr 2026

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

Thermal Clothing: Lessons in Engineering

10 Apr 2026

As soon as the temperature dips below 0ºC, you will find me covered head to toe in thermal clothing. I am not picky when it comes to brands, although I do love Uniqlo’s HEATTECH. As long as I am...

A Journey into “AI Psychosis”

9 Apr 2026

I was chatting with a friend the other day, telling him I felt there was a deeper layer to reality. He thought it was fascinating, and among the many ideas he rattled off was the hypothesis that...

How Many Lives Do Amber Alerts Really Save?

3 Apr 2026

On Sunday, March 22nd of this year, a large swath of the population in Quebec was woken up at 4:25 as cell phones lit up and screamed. An Amber alert had been broadcast.

The Molecules That Run the World Come From Oil

3 Apr 2026

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. 

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