Editorial

Maximize your cultural clout

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Fraser Nelund
Want to change the face of the Internet? Want to maximize your cultural clout? Click on ad. Don’t read ad, close ad. That’s the gist of the classic capitalist model of voting with your dollars,...
Features

Fortunes foretold: five future facts

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Fraser Nelund
Future Fact No. 1 The planet is not unchanging. We’ve passed the “tipping point,” we’re showing no signs of curtailing our climate effecting behaviour. I barely need to engage my prophetic powers to know that...
Sports

U of M home to hockey robot

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Fraser NelundMarc Lagace
Programmers working at the Autonomous Agents Laboratory may have developed the world’s first humanoid-robot ice-hockey player. Chris Iverach-Brereton, a computer science graduate student at the U of M, has been programming Jennifer — a DARwin...
Sports

Forward thinking

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Fraser Nelund
An up front look at the Jets
Sports

Deep blue-line

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Fraser Nelund
Okay Winnipeg fans, reality check: we’re overreacting. Bad things happen in hockey land. The specific things happening to the Jets are hardly of the sort we should be concerned with. A month of poor...
News

Indigenous research centre open to the public

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Fraser Nelund
The University of Manitoba community welcomed its first research space dedicated to studying Indigenous communities to its Fort Garry campus last Wednesday. Mamawipawin, located on the fourth floor of the Isbister building, is intended to...
News

Climbing robotic tank

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Fraser Nelund
Something of gravity is developing in Simon Fraser University’s research labs. Gravity defying that is. Researchers have put together a machine on the edge, a machine that can crawl over the edge and down...
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