Can you pass me my external E. coli drive?
If you think you’ve joined the ranks and have become a fellow data hoarder with your stash of several external hard drives and possess the…
January 2011
iLeave
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple (AAPL), has announced that he will be relinquishing his day-to-day duties, taking a “medical leave” from the company. In Jobs’s…
To beard or not to beard?
Oh Bearduary, what can I say? The shavings of Movember have barely hit the sink and now the two month event of Bearduary has begun;…
Let’s talk about sex
Many Canadians of a variety of ages can associate late night sex-related programming with none other than the world-renowned sex educator Sue Johanson, host of…
A dark night for bats
Given the scale and diversity of most animal populations, it is a rare thing to talk about extinction on the same time scale we might…
U of M Bookstore puts other stores to shame
Located at 140 University Crescent is the biggest and baddest store on campus. If you are not careful, the University of Manitoba Bookstore may just…
Zoological Investigations
Hello and welcome to January 2011. I was looking out the window earlier, enjoying the hoar frost, when it occurred to me that, really, Winnipeg…
Symbol of summer
In the last months of summer I moved from my townhouse on the edge of the suburbs to a small apartment in St. Boniface, right…
Science briefs
The ultimate hangover cure! Science has provided us with the ultimate cure for hangovers. A hangover can occur when doses of ethanol (large or small)…
It’s about to get crowded
Do you think Winnipeg rush hour is bad, or you feel cramped in the university’s underground tunnels and in the stores of the mall? Well…