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Stand on me: Linguistics of love

Would you date someone who is a native speaker of a language that you were in the process of learning? It can be difficult enough to communicate in my first…

Comic: Feb. 4

Goodbye to romance: My hairy split with Kitty Collector

Dear Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector, I’m leaving you. They say that love is blind. But it’s also fleeting, and so it’s with a heavy heart that I am coming clean…

The six stages of playing ‘Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector’

Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector is a mobile game where you buy toys for virtual cats, who in turn leave you fish, which you then use to buy more toys. None…

5 better names for your baby in 2016

According to the B.C. Ministry of Health, 2014’s top baby names for girls in B.C. was Olivia, with Ethan topping the list for boys. And while stats for 2015 haven’t…

“Ah”: 15 of my favourite Vines from 2015

If Vine has proven anything, it’s that Shakespeare wasn’t lying when he wrote “Brevity is the soul of wit.” With only six seconds of video available, you gotta get in,…

A newbie’s guide to Star Wars

In a galaxy far, far away, with aliens from a thousand worlds, a bunch of robots and guys in robes fire lasers at each other. There’s romance, rebellion, and a…

Dating advice for a galaxy far, far away

Dear Abby, I’m writing to you because I’m in the same problem so many women find themselves in. I’m a good girl who’s in love with a bad boy. But…

4 things you actually want for Christmas

Look at your calendar. Now back to me. Now back at your calendar. Now back to me. What is that on your calendar? It looks like a Big Day known…

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