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listening in

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Ian T. D. Thomson
The latest from the critically lauded Gorillaz — a collection of singles spanning the group’s career, dating from 2001 to 2011 — provides a set of self-confident songs from the band’s rich catalogue. After...
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Provincial man

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Ryan Harby
They say you should always write about what you know. If that’s the case, Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson knows his home province of Manitoba very well. Released late January through Epitaph/ANTI- Records, Samson’s solo...
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Take off your clothes

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Miguel Yetman
Two weekends ago I attended a student journalism conference in Victoria, B.C. The conference and speakers covered a wide array of topics, one of which was titled The Human Body Project. This presentation was...
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The clock is ticking

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Tom Ingram
It’s five minutes to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is an image representing the severity of threats to the planet and humanity in general. On the clock, times closer to midnight signify higher threats and midnight...
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Eradication victory

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Tom Ingram
As of Jan. 13, India had not had a case of polio in a year. The country was a major centre of polio infection as recently as 2009, when its 741 cases accounted for...
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March of the supersoldiers

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Ian T. D. Thomson
Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants,” a study out of McGill University published Jan. 6 in Science, shines light on a different class of ant: the supersoldier. The study was able to...
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The big cheese

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Ian T. D. Thomson
It is evident when cheese goes bad. A foul-smelling odour paired with the presence of uniquely coloured moulds and fungi renders this once pleasurable food item uneatable. As much as your roommate may protest,...

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