Arts & Culture

Experimental art made accessible

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Jen Robinson
Approachable experimental art was the goal of last weekend’s second annual Forthwith Festival. From Feb. 2 to Feb. 4, local coffee shop Forth will host experimental music performances, visual art installations, and artist workshops...
Jen Doerksen
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Student group swing dancing into the new year

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Jen Robinson
The University of Manitoba Swing Dance Club (UMSwing) is currently offering eight-week swing dance lessons starting Feb. 6. The student group programs lessons for four different types of swing dance, Charleston, jive, blues, and...
Jen Doerksen
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Life in the Cretaceous Period

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Jen Robinson
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 Bear Cave, The Nonsuch and, if we were lucky,...
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IQ isn’t everything

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Jen Robinson
What do holocaust-denier James von Brunn, pornstar Asia Carrera and wrestler Scott Levy (“The Raven”) have in common — other than a tendency toward socially deviant behaviour? Worry not, dear readers, I shall keep you...
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Common misconceptions about evolution

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Jen Robinson
DISCLAIMER: This article was inspired by reading way too much Stephen Jay Gould, and its arguments are currently still being debated within the scientific community. Much ink has been spilled refuting creationists’ sometimes sneakily...
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Why you shouldn’t buy lottery tickets or worry about H1N1

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Jen Robinson
As an only child, sharing was something that I did only under the most serious of threats, like the loss of television privileges for a week. In those terrible instances in which I was...
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Cleanliness really is next to godliness

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Jen Robinson
Finding a dime in a phone box, not being in a rush, having other people nearby, background noise — these are all things that unconsciously affect our moral behaviour, scientists claim. The latest addition to...
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