It looks like this story would be a great case for a critical thinking class.

From the story:

Occasional smokers were 40 per cent more likely to suffer from psychosis, while dedicated tokers who used marijuana daily or weekly increased their risk by 50 to 200 per cent.

From STATS.org:

To epidemiologists a 40% increase is not especially noteworthy– they usually don’t find risk factors worth worrying about until the number hits at least 200% and some major journals won’t publish studies unless the risk is 300 or even 400%.

Today is the last day you’ll see this on the video player on the CBC News page:

Kdz on ur intar-t00bs, weirdin ur languaj ZOMG!!1!1eleven kthxbi (Runs 2:25)

Click through to the last page (5 of 5).

I wondered at the time if I’d get away with it. Nobody even mentioned it.

A proof-of-concept, displaying geographical information stored in a Google Docs spreadsheet on a Google Map, as described here:

Official Google Maps API Blog: Creating Dynamic Client-side Maps Mashups with Google Spreadsheets

The current version, with a lot more information but without a database or spreadsheet back-end, is on the CBC site.

(Grrr… I gotta change my layout. Curse these narrow fixed-width columns.)

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