Monthly Archives: Jul 2021

Cutting the Cookies

Google recently announced that it was planning to “kill off” third-party cookies within the Chrome browser, however, the multinational tech company has had to push these plans out. If you, like most of us, are more familiar with the edible kind of cookie versus the computer kind, then this may not seem like anything significant. Computer cookies, otherwise known as HTTP cookies, web cookies, browser cookies or Internet cookies form an integral part of the internet as we know it, but also has implications in terms of our privacy online. There are different kinds of cookies that for the most part aren’t all that different to one another, but can be used in slightly different […]

A slice of history: the Hawaiian Pizza

To put pineapple on a pizza or not to put pineapple on a pizza – that is the culinary question? Pineapple is undeniably one of the most polarising pizza toppings across the world, with many pizza purists insisting that pineapple has no right being on a pizza, while others love the cheesy sweet and savoury combination. Whichever side of the spectrum you fall, the history of the Hawaiian pizza (as it is most commonly known as) goes back fifty-plus years, and starts with a man by the name of Sam Panopoulos.

Panopoulos emigrated from Greece to Canada in 1954; however on his journey over he had his first exposure to the food […]

Learning the Greek alphabet one COVID variant at a time

Every day it seems that there is a new COVID-19 variant that has come to the fore and is making waves both in global news but in the relevant health systems too. With the Delta variant undeniably becoming the most notorious to date with its increased transmissibility and it’s prevalence worldwide not only in terms of number of countries it’s now spread to, but also the rapidly increasing number of Delta-infected people in those countries. Given its increased transmissibility, there have been correlations between the number of people infected and subsequently the number of people who have been hospitalised. This is also the variant that has been seen […]