Leach wins! Leach wins!

Canada's publishing industry features a handful of standout magazines publishing excellent long-form journalism. I'm delighted to see that David Leach -- colleague, friend, and fellow member of the Mook Club -- won the gold medal at this year's National Magazine Awards, in the sports and recreation category, for his piece in Explore entitled "A Deadly Crossing." Well deserved, fella!

And in unrelated news, I see that it's now possible to have computer-generated nonsense accepted for publication in academic journals. Oh, to be creative.... I mean, how exactly is an academic supposed to compete with ACTUAL technobabble?