Snowpants will never be sexy
Winter: we Winnipeggers love to hate it — and with good reason. Every year I ask myself why I have chosen to remain in this…
2010
Life in the Cretaceous Period
As a kid, visiting the Manitoba Museum (then known as the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature) was always an adventure. There was the Polar…
DR. Know
Ah genetics. There was a time — quite recently in fact — when I thought that the study of the infinite dimensions, which compose our…
Plasma Rockets
It’s been 38 years since humans last stepped foot on a planet other than this pale blue dot. Now, with new technology being developed at…
Awkward Overtures
With cameras and photographs so readily available, photographic art has some challenges ahead in order to define itself. How does a contemporary photographer make work…
Universities need to learn from Facebook and Twitter
The Internet is constantly becoming more advanced, but is taken for granted as a passive tool for gathering information and being entertained. Social networking, one…
(black) and white face
The world is chock-full of secretaries who exhaust their days processing paper and questioning why they bothered to wax their legs at all when it…
When and wear
Copy: With a decade closing recently, the white of winter fading to grey, the flecks of our skin washing out way past pale, it’s fair…
Words from the last reality TV junkie
The rise of reality TV in the last 10 years has marked many top 10 lists summarizing our last decade. And before the big scare…
Forcing the issue:
How is Princess Leia a princess when her father is a senator? The answer is simple, but easy to miss. Leia’s adoptive father is Bail…