The age of things
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Two hundred kilometers north of Winnipeg is Nopiming Provincial Park, a place full of backwater camping and hiking trails, and, as it happens, precambrian rocks that are over two billion years old. The precambrian,...
Love is in the air
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“This stuff is like catnip. Too many women come after me I am looking for a woman my own age, but the 10X attracts them all.” So says Larry from New York,...
Love hurts
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Imagine you’re out for a walk in the woods and you happen upon an attractive mate; after copulation, your partner promptly bites your head off and eats it, then proceeds to devour the rest...
Playing mind games on your stomach
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The company we keep while dining and the décor of the restaurant we dine in has an important role in influencing our choice of food and drink. For over 79 years, researchers have been...
Prediction is the best medicine
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The recent devastation in Haiti has reminded us once again of the powerful natural forces at work all around us. Beneath our feet is a cornucopia of activity that we are powerless to control,...
Plasma Rockets
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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 Ad Astra Rocket Company by Franklin Chang-Diaz and his...
Quantum computing
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Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Byron Southern, a theoretical physicist and professor of quantum mechanics at the University of Manitoba. With a philosophy and psychology background, I felt out of my...
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