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Is There an AI Metrics Mirage? American Scientist. Vol. 112. No. 2

Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning. Association for Computational Linguistics 2024. (Submitted) 

Combat by Algorithm: Trials of Strength in Artificial Intelligence Research. Anthropology News. 
Jan. 23, 2024.

Long after books blazed, a library is finally back. Spacing Magazine #63. 

The True Disruptors at Collision Were Asking us to Slow Down and Listen. Spacing blog. July 18, 2023.

Will AI really change everything? Not likely. Globe and Mail. June 5, 2023. 

The Promises and Perils of AI at the Provocation Ideas Festival. Spacing blog. May 16, 2023.

The Metapragmatic Function of Machine Learning Algorithms. Science, Technology and Human Values. (In Review) 

Shifting Voices in Dungeons and Dragons. With Adam Axbey. Babel. February 2023.

Why AI Will Never Fully Capture Human Language. SAPIENS.org. Reprinted in American Scientist

COVID shows why we need the social sciences now more than ever. Ottawa Citizen

Parenting is Hard, No Matter What You See–Or Read–Online. CBC Parents

Think Pronouns Are Difficult? French Doesn’t Make It Any Easier. CBC Parents.

On A Family Vacation, I Recommend Letting Your Kids Take The Lead. CBC Parents

I’m Trying To Show My Kids Music Is Something We Create, Not Just Consume. CBC Parents. 

When we search for the humanity in LaMDA AI, we’re missing the point. Globe and Mail. 

When One Child Has More Extracurricular Success Than Their Siblings. CBC Parents.

My Family’s Encounters With An Often Shirtless, Longboarding Opera Singer. CBC Parents.

Jane’s Walk Festival + Provocation Ideas Festival. Spacing blog. 

Our Family Tree Revealed Many Things To My Kids, Including The Roles Women Have Historically Filled. CBC Parents.

We Want Our Kids To Play Music Like We Do, But Nothing Is Working. CBC Parents. 

“The Ghost in the Machine: Metaphors of the ‘Virtual’ and the ‘Artificial’ in Post-WW2 Computer Science” in Perspectives on Science, Special Issue: Virtual Entities in Science. Cambridge: MIT Press (in review).

Groundhog Day Is An Absurd Tradition— And My Kids Want Answers. CBC Parents.

There Is An Art To Swearing And I’m Sharing That With My Kids. CBC Parents

January Can Be A Bleak Month, So Our Family Threw A Robbert Burns Supper. CBC Parents.

Placekeeping on the Islands: An indigenous landscape architect is reimagining Toronto’s iconic park. Spacing Magazine. #58. Winter 2021. 

Hair Pulling, Superheroes And Stickers — How My Three Kids Braced Themselves For Vaccination, CBC Parents.

Canada’s ‘Sometimes Smug Approach To Mulitculturalism’ Is Hard To Avoid — And Explain To Kids, CBC Parents.

Canadian Thanksgiving Is Often Oversimplified For Kids — But There’s A Lot To Discuss, CBC Parents.

Elevated: What would it take to turn the decommissioned Scarborough RT into a park? Spacing Magazine. #57. Fall 2021.

Elder Wisdom: First Nations and public health in Toronto. Spacing Magazine. #56. Spring 2021.

Indigenous youth help redefine landscape architecture. Spacing Blog. 

Is Getting A Cat Spayed Unimaginably Cruel?, CBC Parents.

My 10-Year-Old Plans To ‘Vote’ For Justin Trudeau, CBC Parents.

Constraints on generality: The (mis-)use of generic propositions in scientific prose, The Digital Scholar: Philosopher’s Lab, Vol. 3. No. 1.

Decaying Words: The Metaphor of Evolution in Language Becomes Literal in a Canadian Forest, Technology and Language. Vol. 1. No. 2. 

‘Will It Split The Family?’ — Our Italo-Anglo Family’s Euro 2020, CBC Parents.

A Look Into The Anxiety-Inducing, Deeply Regulated World Of A Kid’s Pandemic Spelling Bee, CBC Parents.

Pride Is Not Just For Brians — We’ve Always Felt Welcome As A Straight Family, CBC Parents.

Do Kids Even Want to go Back to School in June?, CBC Parents.

Our Newest Aggravating Family Member Was Ravaged by Ticks…, CBC Parents.

The Monster My Daughter Fears Isn’t An Active Shooter But The Lockdown Drill Itself, CBC Parents. 

My 7-Year-Old Fashion Designer, CBC Parents.

How To Dispose Of Children’s Crafts Without Crushing Their Souls, CBC Parents.

Two Girls Read Books About Girls With Their Dad — Here Are Their Reviews, CBC Parents.

Archeologists Unearth Privies From 19th Century Toronto, Spacing Magazine, #54, Summer 2020

The Oldest Bottle of Wine in Toronto, Spacing Magazine, #52, Winter 2020

Urban Adventures: City Scouts teaches kids how to navigate their own city, Spacing Magazine, #52, Winter 2020

Parenting is a Dictatorship, CBC Parents

I Enjoy Letting My Daughters Help Me With Home Projects — Here’s Why, CBC Parents

Our Family Could Grieve 2020, But We Had It Better Than Many, CBC Parents

How the ‘Buy Nothing’ Philosophy is Alive And Well In Our Home — And Always Will Be, CBC Parents.

This Canadian Family Bought 10 Chickens To Feed And Educate Their Kids, CBC Parents

I Hope The Person Who Keeps Stealing From My Family Reads This, CBC Parents

Reports From Our Pandemic-Era Bedroom, Where ‘Air Conditioner Privilege’ Lives, CBC Parents

How To Help Your Kids Turn Your Old T-Shirt Into Their Own No-Sew Mask, CBC Parents

I’m Thinking Beyond Online Learning, So I Asked My Daughter To Write Half This Article, CBC Parents

Ending The Stigma Of COVID-19 At Home So It Doesn’t Become The New ‘Cooties’, CBC Parents

The Day My Daughter Learned That Hawks Want To Devour Other Birds — Not Berries, CBC Parents

My Father Died Four Days After My Daughter Was Born, CBC Parents

I’m Not Vaccine-Resistant Or An ‘Anti-Vaxxer’ — I’m Teaching My Kids Why Shots Matter, CBC Parents

Navigating My Daughter’s Three Personas — Maria, Big Boy And Le Petit Bébé, CBC Parents

I Don’t want my kids to have a Nature Deficit Disorder, CBC Parents

We’re All Going to Die: conversations with a 5-year old, a 7-year old and a squirrel named Eli, CBC Parents

Our Family is a Proud Member of the #Beyhive, Despite all the Swearing, CBC Parents

Most Parents Have Been on a Field Trip From Hell–Here’s My Story, CBC Parents

My Daughter Wore a 1960’s-Inspired ‘Indian’ Costume–Here’s How I Took Care of That, CBC Parents

Stealing From a 3-Year-Old Kid is BS, CBC Parents

Our Kids Love Opera But Not Because We Force Them To, CBC Parents

Why do I Let My Kids Take the School Bus Without a Seat Belt? CBC Parents

Why the Gillette Ad isn’t About Just Boys and Men, it’s About my Three Daughters Too, CBC Parents

Lies Parents Tell: The Teeth in this Secret, Hidden-Away Jar Aren’t Yours, CBC Parents

Why Canning Tomato Sauce is More Important to our Family Than Going to the Cottage, CBC Parents

My Family’s History of Early Death is Driving Me to Make Changes for My Daughters, CBC Parents

I Lied To My Kids About Meeting A Mermaid And Had A Crisis of Conscience, CBC Parents

How We Can Afford To Be a Cultured Family: We Barter, CBC Parents

Our Family’s Struggles As A French-First Family In An English-First City, CBC Parents

I Think the Policing of School Lunches Has Gone Too Far, CBC Parents

Let Kids In On Cooking Because Dinner Doesn’t Just Magically Appear, CBC Parents

Here’s What Your Kids Can Learn if You Let Them Use Power Tools, CBC Parents

It’s Not a Sex-Ed Curriculum, It’s a Health Curriculum, and Our Kids Need it, CBC Parents

How a Broken Promise Between My Two Daughters Led Me to Accepting That Violence is OK — Sometimes, CBC Parents

Getting Graffiti: Brick Works shows off what Rob Ford would clean up, Globe & Mail

Street Gangs of Toronto, 1943, Spacing Magazine

The Use of Games in Museums and Science Centers, Spongelab White Paper

The Power of Open, STEM Magazine Canada

How Savvy Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Co-Opt the Business Model Canvas, EdSurge

7 Principles Lean Startups Can Learn from the Scientific Process, MaRS Blog

Fighting to Get Heard at SXSW: Some Tactics for Entrepreneurs, MaRS Blog

Joseph Wilson on Learning… Possible Canadas Interview, Globe & Mail

Youth Hackathon Platbook Hits the Web for Free, MaRS Blog

Why Travel is a Crucial Part of an Entrepreneur’s Education, MaRS Blog

How Not to Be Annoying at #SXSW: A Review, Betakit

Startup Weekend Toronto EDU, MaRS Blog

Creative Tension at SXSWedu, Betakit

Game Changer: How Digital Games Are Creating New Learning Experiences, Canada Education

Education Changemakers: Learning Differently, Startup Library

Education Changemakers: Business Models Matter, Startup Library

Education Changemakers: Blended Solutions, Startup Library

Investors Give Education Technology Firms the Nod, the Financial Post

The Lean Rock Band, MaRS Blog

Future Leaders: Planting the Seeds of Entrepreneurs, MaRS Blog

Big Ideas at SXSWEdu, Mindshare Learning

Collaborating for Growth in the K-12 Education Market, MaRS Blog

Great Ideas From Minds That Don’t Think Alike, Globe & Mail

Collaborating Across Disciplines, Technology Innovation Management Review

Frenetic Engineering, NOW Magazine

Tech Equalizer: Activists Help World’s Poor Dial Up Freedom on a Cell Phone, NOW Magazine

Rebel Mobility: Cells Score Tactically, But Pack Your Notebook to Combat Jamming, NOW Magazine

Come on in, the Water’s Fine, Right?, Globe & Mail

Creationist Spin on Our Origins, the Toronto Star

The Mini Maker Faire is a Science Fair for Grown-Ups That Matters, Yonge Street

Toronto’s 49 Pixels Project is Mapping Out Our Silicon Valley North, Yonge Street

Social Entrepreneurship in Toronto is Hot and May be a Future Direction for Capital Markets, Yonge Street

Toronto`s Serious Gaming Companies Have Kids Thinking? Yonge Street

Planet Traveller Digs Its Way Into a Low Carbon Economy, Yonge Street

MarketLink is Helping Small Toronto and Canadian Tech Companies Get Into International Markets, Yonge Street

Toronto`s CFC Media Lab is a World Pioneer in Digital Interactive Media & Now They Mean Business, Yonge Street

Towards a Sustainable University of Toronto Campus, Yonge Street

Net Change Week: Social Innovators are Making Don Tapscott`s Predictions Come True, Yonge Street

Accessible To All, NOW Magazine

Ads That Stalk Us, NOW Magazine

All That Jazz, NOW Magazine

Belize’s Reef Rewards, NOW Magazine

Big Brother at the Superbowl, NOW Magazine

Blinding Them With Science, NOW Magazine

Browse and Get Smarter, NOW Magazine

Bye-Bye NASA Monopoly, NOW Magazine

Can Digital Bits Eclipse Bound Books, NOW Magazine

Canuck Election Sites Suck, NOW Magazine

Car Design for a Green Future, NOW Magazine

Cataloguing The Cool Way, NOW Magazine

Cells Signal The Future of Film, NOW Magazine

Chad Checkup, NOW Magazine

Christians Convert to Gaming, NOW Magazine

Community Wi-Fi, NOW Magazine

Cool Disappearing Acts, NOW Magazine

Cross-Over Blog, NOW Magazine

Cyborg Sensation, NOW Magazine

Death of the Format Wars, NOW Magazine

Death Tech Never Says Die, NOW Magazine

Debra Fischer’s Starry Eyes, NOW Magazine

Dog Sledding in Haliburton, NOW Magazine

Doing It With Dexit, NOW Magazine

Do iPods Mean the End of Tolerance?, NOW Magazine

Do Robots Have Souls?, NOW Magazine

Ebooks Get Some Traction, NOW Magazine

Election Debates Hit YouTube, NOW Magazine

Euro Free Kicks, NOW Magazine

E-Waste Not, NOW Magazine

Football TVs Final Frontier, NOW Magazine

France’s Way or the Highway, NOW Magazine

Free Shareable iTunes in Sight, NOW Magazine

Gaming for the Greater Good, NOW Magazine

Garreau’s Vision, NOW Magazine

Ghost Map Haunts the Future, NOW Magazine

Giving Black Inventors Credit, NOW Magazine

Google Expands the Heavens, NOW Magazine

Google Looses Lustre in China, NOW Magazine

Guns Are Getting Smarter, NOW Magazine

High Science For Regular Folks, NOW Magazine

High-tech Camping, NOW Magazine

High-tech Hunting, NOW Magazine

History at the End of a Phone, NOW Magazine

How Green Can Save World Economies, NOW Magazine

Hydro Hits The Wireless Grid, NOW Magazine

In Defence of Wikipedia, NOW Magazine

Is Wikileaks Sell-off a Sell-out?, NOW Magazine

It’s iEverything These Days, NOW Magazine

Top 10 Tech Events 2005, NOW Magazine

Joy of the Stick, NOW Magazine

Life Lessons From Dawson, NOW Magazine

Lose That Real Estate Agent, NOW Magazine

Made in Canada, Eh?, NOW Magazine

Mars Attack, NOW Magazine

Modder’s Day, NOW Magazine

Nature Knows Best, NOW Magazine

Nerd Words Go Mainstream, NOW Magazine

Net Long Distance is Close, NOW Magazine

New Tech’s Old Style, NOW Magazine

Not-So-Useful Election Sites, NOW Magazine

OCAD Okays High-Tech Plan, NOW Magazine

Olympic Gear Raises The Bar, NOW Magazine

Olympic Surfing, NOW Magazine

On Tour With Moonraker, Jambands.com

Outdoor Art With a Difference, NOW Magazine

Packaging Punditry, NOW Magazine

Paralympic Heights, NOW Magazine

Peer-to-Peer Under Fire, NOW Magazine

Photoshop Fakers, NOW Magazine

Podcast Broadcast, NOW Magazine

Political Parties Online Push, NOW Magazine

Power Plays, NOW Magazine

Progress at a Price, NOW Magazine

Queer Site Specifics, NOW Magazine

Robots Learn Surgical Moves, NOW Magazine

Rootkits Sign of Sony’s Arrogance, NOW Magazine

Say Goodbye to Bank Loans, NOW Magazine

Scents and New Sensitivities, NOW Magazine

Science for Not-so-Dummies, NOW Magazine

Silly Sci-Fi Flicks, NOW Magazine

Sitting in Newton’s Tree, NOW Magazine

Slip-Sliding Away to Olympic Gold, NOW Magazine

Surfing Mayoral Hopefuls, NOW Magazine

Surveillance Hitting Home, NOW Magazine

Tail Yourself For a Change, NOW Magazine

Taking a Bite of the Apple, NOW Magazine

Tech Capitalists Get Conscious, NOW Magazine

The Afterlife of Cell Phones, NOW Magazine

The Plane Truth, NOW Magazine

The Search for Better Privacy, NOW Magazine

Tips for the Oscar Pool Freak, NOW Magazine

Troubles Over Tiered Net, NOW Magazine

Tuning into Tech, NOW Magazine

Virtual Date With a Porn Star, NOW Magazine

Vista System Full of Glitches, NOW Magazine

Wake up Call for Cyclists, NOW Magazine

Weblogs Getting Some Respect, NOW Magazine

When Printers Go Star Trek, NOW Magazine

Where Brains Meet Games, NOW Magazine

Who’s Your Nanny, NOW Magazine

Why Moog Didn’t Go Digital, NOW Magazine

Wiki Recipes For Disasters, NOW Magazine

Wireless and We Mean it, NOW Magazine

Writers You Are Not Alone, NOW Magazine

Your Memory Tells T.O.’s Story, NOW Magazine

You Too Can Design an Ad, NOW Magazine