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Holding Power to Account
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Exactly 40 years ago this month, two journalists at the Washington Post published a book about the Watergate break-in called All the President’s Men.
The book chronicled one of the biggest political scandals in history,...
Grad school fee hike faux pas
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The University of Manitoba is backing down from a plan proposed to raise continuing fees for graduate students.
Precipitation runoff research
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With a bachelor’s degree in physical geography from the University of Winnipeg, Petzold had a chance to study different aspects of Earth science. Her interest in hydrology, however, was unavoidable.
Killiam Prize awarded to distinguished U of M professor
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Last month U of M distinguished professor Dr. Frank Plummer was named a recipient of the Killiam Prize in Health Sciences, one of the highest honours in Canada.
The Singularity
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Imagine that a team of scientists has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) with capabilities unfathomably far beyond the human mind. As soon as this AI is allowed to interact with the world, everything changes....
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
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One of the more interesting areas of scientific study today is known as cryopreservation, or cryonics. This field of scientific research involves using technological means to cool living tissue, organs, and organisms to the...


