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Board of Governors approves 0% increase to executive salaries
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The decision to approve the zero percent increase was made by the management resources and compensation committee at Tuesday’s board meeting.
“It’s a prudent step, and a responsible step, given it’s a challenging economic...
Dinosaurs finally have something to blame
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One of the most devastating events in the history of life on Earth is believed to have happened 65.5 million years ago, when an asteroid approximately 15 km across impacted our planet in what...
Solar power
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What if I told you that enough of the sun’s energy strikes the Earth every hour to power the entire planet for a full year? That would mean that if we could collect 100...
Penny for your thoughts
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With the results of a study published in the March 11 issue of Current Biology, scientists from University College London (UCL) have brought us closer to understanding how memories are fixed in our brains.
The...
Vikings keep biodiversity safe
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Buried in the permafrost on a tiny island in the Arctic Ocean is a vault, which may contain the future of humankind. It doesn’t contain weapons, gold or books, nor anything else you would...
Writing rainbow
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Daria Salamon, author of the Prairie Bridesmaid, finds that she does her best writing when she starts at 10 p.m. and works away into the night. Otherwise she “needs to consume an entire pot...
Fried brains and Sam
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As I went in no particular direction, for no particular reason, sifting and sloshing my mass of formless molecules through some kaleidoscope reality, I was reminded of a song by this guy I'd met...
