photo credit: bill barber As of January 3rd, 2010 there were 3,015 Tim Hortons in Canada. Today, Tim Hortons outlined plans to add 900 outlets by 2013. The population of Canada is around 33,000,000. This means there will soon be 1 Tim Hortons store for every 10,000 Canadians. By comparison there are 9.6 family physicians […]
Consider, if you will, being born with a twin inside you. You would unlikely know that you had a twin until you (or your parents) noticed an abnormal lump growing in your gut. Going to the doctor, x-rays are taken and the medical team notices that there are extra bones in there. You get a […]
Dunno what we’re supposed to make of this news release: “What? We’re similar to a sea urchin? That can’t be possible.” Um, well, not really. Some part of our genomes are the same. And there might be clues in there to help humans live longer (which, I ask: do we really need?). That’s about it. […]