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Are you SAD?

The acronym for “seasonal affective disorder,” SAD, seems quite appropriate when you consider that this condition is a form of clinical depression. The disorder is…


Winter Cycling

I hate taking the bus. I absolutely despise it. I’ve lived in Winnipeg for 22 years and yet, no amount of Winnipeg Transit experience prepares…


Cold is Cool, Man.

There is undoubtedly a perception — or more accurately, a stereotype — throughout much of the world that Canada is a frigid, barren wasteland, wholly…


Life in the Cretaceous Period

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…


DR. Know

Ah genetics. There was a time — quite recently in fact — when I thought that the study of the infinite dimensions, which compose our…


Plasma Rockets

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…


Awkward Overtures

With cameras and photographs so readily available, photographic art has some challenges ahead in order to define itself. How does a contemporary photographer make work…



(black) and white face

The world is chock-full of secretaries who exhaust their days processing paper and questioning why they bothered to wax their legs at all when it…