Summer battery blowout
There’s been an incredible amount of progress in electrical charge storage over the summer with two huge innovations on a nano-sized scale. Both findings are…
2011
Science opinions
I’m usually a fairly calm and rational person. Really, I am. But when I caught my boyfriend simultaneously hugging me and responding to an e-mail…
Just the facts Ma’am
I was recently in the enviable position of sitting on a patio late at night, sipping beer while a bug zapper pleasantly crackled in the…
If it ain’t broke . . .
Just about everybody has heard the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and as with most proverbs, it’s a pretty sensible sounding philosophy….
U of M introduces co-curricular record
They say that 80 per cent of academic breakthroughs occur outside the classroom, and it appears the University of Manitoba has been listening. Starting this…
A tribute to the bicycle
We grew up racing them in back lanes and down gravel roads. We groaned climbing hills on them and had more than a few wipeouts….
U Manitoba launches student app
Need your grades, library books and bus schedules on the go? There’s an app for that. The University of Manitoba’s Web Services department has developed…
Evolution’s spiral
Numbers are pretty amazing things . . . I won’t pretend to know much about them, and I freely admit that I have a restraining…
Israel and Canada
Throughout the Middle East and Arab world, people are rising up against dictatorship and tyranny. They are fighting for their human rights and their human…
UMSU announces new pub name
With the construction of the new campus pub at the University of Manitoba about to begin, UMSU has released the new name and logo of…