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U.S. earns big on tuition from foreign students According to the University World News (UWN), the amount of money the United States receives from foreign students is $18 billion. As of now 3.7 per...

As a kid, visiting the Manitoba Museum (then known as the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature) was always an adventure. There was the Polar Bear Cave, The Nonsuch and, if we were lucky,...

Ah genetics. There was a time — quite recently in fact — when I thought that the study of the infinite dimensions, which compose our universe, was my ultimate calling. However, my obsession over...

It’s been 38 years since humans last stepped foot on a planet other than this pale blue dot. Now, with new technology being developed at Ad Astra Rocket Company by Franklin Chang-Diaz and his...

Few words carry such cultural stigma as “mathematics.” We associate being good at math with an intellectual feat and think of math as some abstract concept. The truth is that we all use math...

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Byron Southern, a theoretical physicist and professor of quantum mechanics at the University of Manitoba. With a philosophy and psychology background, I felt out of my...

The use of facilitated communication (FC) on Rom Houben, a 46-year old Belgian car crash victim, contributed to his recent diagnostic change from being in a persistent vegetative state to locked-in syndrome. In FC,...