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Weekly roundup: August 13-19

19 August 2012

Articles

Faster, higher, richer: Should Olympic medal winners be taxed? from The Globe and Mail

Making Canada’s universities the world’s universities from Maclean’s

Battle over top job reflects conflicting visions of post-war Canadian Forces from Winnipeg Free Press

Canada’s not ready to have the World in the Arctic from The Globe and Mail

Good scientist! You get a badge. from Slate

The future of water is drinking water that’s been in a toilet from Fast Co.Exist

Impressive feline visitors, covered with fur (and lice) from National Post

Net-lag: the modern travellers’ phenomenon from The Globe and Mail

Another Canadian passenger train bites the dust from National Post

Tweets

Screenshot from Twitter. 2012-08-13T19:13:00.000Z. @mattmight@mathstodon.xyz (@mattmight). From studying the videos, I infer that the hardest part of parkour is learing to run and jump in slow motion..

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Screenshot from Twitter. 2012-08-15T21:04:54.000Z. Corey Mintz (@coreymintz). There's no polite was to rescind a dinner invitation once you've found out a guest is vegan. So you may as well be a jerk about it..

Screenshot from Twitter. 2012-08-17T17:01:58.000Z. Megan Kot (@MeganKot). Kanye has a point: your bottled #water waste weighs heavily on us all. (and, it's properly cited: #win) #Friday http://t.co/mD8krOv0.

[tweet https://twitter.com/scottfeschuk/statuses/237247661772779520]

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