Arts & Culture
Archaeology, etc.
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Dr. William James Mayer-Oakes was the first head of the U of M anthropology department back in the early 1960s. As an archaeologist, he took great interest in the Ice Age history of Manitoba...
The springs of Springfield
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If the origin of his lost appendage were unknown, most viewers would assume that Herman, the one-armed owner of Herman’s Military Antiques, is a war veteran. Since the ages of characters on The Simpsons...
Yore Lore: Ishtar
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Goddesses of the ancient cultures, especially in Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Middle East, were often both beautiful and cruel. Yet there is something fascinating about them — they seem almost like a double-edged...
Changing your life with your breath
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When you are in your teens and early 20s, you are in the process of picking your career, finding your relationships and making decisions that impact on the rest of your life. Our emotions...
Fried brains and Sam:
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Natural disasters are anything but entertaining, from my point of view. I end up with a week's worth of congestion and am always forced to work overtime without pay. I tried to complain last...
Two poems
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Bikes and rocks and her and me
i rember a brite sunny day when i was watching my older Sister play on Her bike and i was putting rocks up my nose and i was...
The Anti-Ketchup Food Manifesto
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Ketchup may actually be the perfect icon of all the things that are wrong with North American food culture. Every package sold is symbolic of the distance between the production of raw materials from...
