Fault lines: Why the L’Aquila scientists should not go to jail
Opinion: Why the L’Aquila scientists should not go to jail A little over two weeks ago, six Italian earthquake scientists and one public official were convicted of…
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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits British Columbia: Canada’s largest quake in over six decades
“Beautiful British Columbia,” the license plates don’t lie. But beneath those beautiful mountains and rugged terranes exist one of the most violent and deadly of…
Most evil man on television: Breaking Bad challenges viewers to cheer for the bad guy
I’ll start with a brief disclaimer: if you aren’t caught up with Breaking Bad, or have yet to start watching the award-winning AMC drama, do…
Hating horror: The scapegoat genre
A man chokes out a high-pitched wail. He is thrashing face down on a weight lifting bench as a drill churns his anal cavity into borscht….
Evil in the forebrain: The neuroscience of psychopathy
The myth of “pure evil” is a bad joke, resulting from and sustained by other unhelpful binaries: good and bad, right and wrong, normal and…
The “evil” machine: An expression of our fears
“At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away…
Constructing a monster
Do enough shopping for little nieces and nephews and you’ll eventually stumble upon a toy kit from the Melissa and Doug line called Make-Your-Own Monster…
How evil is a socially constructed concept: Evil across societies
Everyone takes evil for granted. We tend to see things as either inherently or objectively evil. The age-old debate of good versus evil often comes…
The study of evil: U of M course deals with the tough topic of evil
You might not think that evil or the moralistic struggle between good and evil would play a role in a university classroom setting, where a…
Getting to know your Bisons: Recent and past history of the eight Bison spectator sports
The University of Manitoba is a proud member of the Canada West conference, one of four major conferences that make up Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS),…