Brodeur: soon to be greatest?
This month 37-year old New Jersey Devils’ goalie Martin Brodeur won his 102nd career shutout victory in a 2-0 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. The…
2009
Running for the cure
This year on Oct. 4, I took part in Winnipeg’s CIBC Breast Cancer Run for the Cure. At 9 a.m., everyone from infants to seniors…
You bet your bottom dollar!
In my lifetime I don’t remember ever really winning a bet placed on a sporting event. Not a significant bet, anyway. Any time I’ve put…
Not a good weekend for Bisons basketball
It was a basketball filled weekend as the Bisons Invitational Tournament took place for the women’s basketball team, and the men played two games at…
Events in science
Interested in getting more involved on and off campus? Want to see how professors spend their free time? Need something thrifty to do with your…
Better know a prokaryote
One need only to look at the more than 100 pages of comments on Cbc.ca following the website’s story on the approval of the H1N1…
Dr. Know examines the fifth dimension . . . almost
Well hello again, dimensional ignoramus. I honestly didn’t expect to see you again after that last lesson; it was a doozy. Well, do not get…
What your colon and a butterfly have in common
I sit in a lab in a state of disarray, full of unopened boxes, chemical containers and keepsakes from Kentucky, all artifacts of a recent…
Nine, 10 never sleep again
“In the middle of the night I woke up and tried to get out of bed. I was shocked, even terrified when I found that…
Metric’s system
It’s easy to get lost in the Canadian indie-music scene, with its multitude of bands that look alike, sound alike and even share members. There…