Singing the praises of Tachinid Flies and their important role in the quilt of nature.
Nature as a Quilt: Tiny, Bristly Tachinid Flies
February 22nd, 2025 4 Comments
Tags: metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · Nature · parasitoid · Tachinid Flies
Grading the Election Campaign Slogans
February 8th, 2025 1 Comment
Grading the Ontario 2025 provincial election campaign slogans – what they do right and where they miss the mark – and awarding a narrow victory.
Tags: Bonnie Crombie · Doug Ford · Marit Stiles · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · Mike Schreiner · Ontario provincial election · slogans
Woke: Boxing a Shadow
January 11th, 2025 Comments Off on Woke: Boxing a Shadow
Tracing the origin of the term “woke” and arguing that it is time to retire it.
Tags: awake · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · stay woke · woke · wokeism
Is Your Vote for Sale?
November 23rd, 2024 Comments Off on Is Your Vote for Sale?
Welcome to the age of tranparent, unapologectic vote buying.
Tags: Doug Ford · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · Pierre Trudeau · Working Canadians Rebate
Nature as a Quilt: The Mighty Mantid
October 5th, 2024 Comments Off on Nature as a Quilt: The Mighty Mantid
An homage to Mantids and how they fit into the quilt of nature.
Tags: Chinese Mantis · European Mantis · Mantid · Mantis · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · Nature · Praying Mantis
Stranded on the ISS: Elon Musk to the Rescue
September 14th, 2024 Comments Off on Stranded on the ISS: Elon Musk to the Rescue
The conversation a fly on the wall might hear between NASA and the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts.
Tags: Barru Wilmore · Boeing Starliner · Elon Musk · International Space Station · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · NASA · SpaceX · Suni Williams
Cell Phones in Schools: WiFi Butterflies
August 31st, 2024 Comments Off on Cell Phones in Schools: WiFi Butterflies
Musing over the metamorphosis of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention into an invasie species and nightmare for educators.
Tags: Alexander Graham Bell · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · School cell phone ban
Nature as a Quilt: Inchneunomid Wasps
August 24th, 2024 Comments Off on Nature as a Quilt: Inchneunomid Wasps
The first in my “Nature as a Quilt” series – a look at Ichneumonid Wasps and the patch in the quilt they represnet.
Tags: Ichneumonid Wasp · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · Nature · nature as a quilt
The Fake News Infodemic: Reader Beware
August 10th, 2024 Comments Off on The Fake News Infodemic: Reader Beware
A brief look at the proliferation of fake news, how it is generated and how we can protect ourselves from it.
Tags: clickbait · deep fake · fake news · infodemic · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet
Olympics: Fumbling the Ball
August 3rd, 2024 Comments Off on Olympics: Fumbling the Ball
Putting forward the assertion that the drone spying scandal is symptomatic of a greater fall from grace for the Olympics.
Tags: Bev Priestman · Canadian Women's Soccer Team · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet · Olympic drone scandal · Olympics