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Adding polling stations won’t reduce apathy: students, CRO
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This year’s UMSU election will be in full swing after nominations for candidates close Feb. 18. Now for the next step: where to vote?
Chief Returning Officer (CRO) Jason van Rooy has finalized this...
Science briefs
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Rise and fall of societies
A recent paper published in the University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s journal Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History details a new model explaining the rise and fall of societies. The...
No more plaster or fibreglass casts!
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Anyone who has ever broken a bone knows that the worst part, aside from the excruciating pain, is the prolonged healing period involving clumsy casts, crutches and difficult cleaning. These things may soon be...
Kiloh-no!
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Break free of physicality once and for all. Let go of the three dimensions, the mass and the matter that holds your fragile world together. Become one with the universe, achieve unity with the...
Freezing without destroying
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Have you ever pondered being frozen? Being completely solidified or chilled has become a meme used throughout film pop culture. Most often, people remember Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze from Batman & Robin (1997)...
Zoological Investigations
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The cassowary is a large, flightless bird that, along with ostriches, omus, kiwis and rheas, is a proud member of the ratite group. The term ratite refers to the shape of the breastbone or...
Thunderstorms: Crazier than ever before
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With every development in technology and every increase in the sensitivity of detection instruments, it seems the universe only ever gets larger and more complicated. With the advent of the microscope came the discovery...
