/oss/taxonomy/term/3899/all en /oss/article/general-science/unbearable-poopness-bookstores <p>Imagine you have been walking the aisles of your favourite bookstore for an hour, letting your gaze gaily hop from one spine to the next. You smell the ink and the paper. You hear the dulcet tones of a piano over the PA system.</p> <p>And then it hits you, like a cannonball dropping in your lower abdomen.</p> <p>The acute, undeniable urge to evacuate your bowels.</p> <p>As you make a run for the nearest public washroom, you think to yourself, “Not again!”</p> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9000 at /oss /oss/article/technology/whats-story-e-books-bedtime <p> </p> <hr /> <p><em>​</em><em>This article was first published in</em><span> </span><a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-whats-the-story-with-ebooks-at-bedtime">The Montreal Gazette</a><span>.</span></p> <hr /> <p>If you have children, here’s what you have to do. You have to feed them. You have to clothe them. You have to love them. And if you can, you should try to read them a bedtime story.</p> Wed, 29 May 2019 02:54:36 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7783 at /oss