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Funding for northern childcare facilities opens up new job, education opportunities

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Morgan Modjeski
Aboriginal communities in northern Manitoba have been given $743,000 for the construction of daycare facilities, said a government press release. According to information provided to the Manitoban by a government spokesperson, the government is aware...
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Ask a scientists gets complicated: Higgs boson edition

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Leif Larsen
It was supposed to be easy, a few googles, maybe a peer reviewed paper or two, and I would be able to answer the “Ask a Scientist” question “what is a Higgs boson?” Unfortunately...
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Think your Mac is safe from hackers?

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Miguel Yetman
Walking in from the brisk autumn weather that blankets our campus and into your first lecture of the day, you are greeted with a glowing ambience of laptops. With keys clacking and notes noted,...
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Dr. Know and the sixth dimension

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Dr. Know
I’m not sure why I continue to write these every week. I’m almost positive that I lost most of you after our diatribe went onto the fourth dimension. Heck, some of you pea-brained ignoramuses...
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Wilson’s Words

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Jen Robinson
Scientists love to introduce new terms. Often in the world of science, the occasion to christen something means that a new and exciting phenomenon or organism has been discovered and naturally needs to be...
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Better know a prokaryote

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Leif Larsen
It’s obscenely difficult to turn on a television set these days without seeing a woman in a yoga suit talking about the advantages of probiotics in her yogurt. And while all sorts of lofty...
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Events in science

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