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Woolwich, a district of London, England, received international coverage on May 22 following the violent murder of 25-year-old Lee Rigby. Two Britons of Nigerian descent, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, have been charged with...

UMSU council has voted to remove official student group status from Students Against Israeli Apartheid. This past April 11, Josh Morry, Commerce Students’ Association representative and member of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU)...

As we become more concerned about the environment and energy efficiency, hybrid vehicles begin to look more and more attractive. They seem like the best of both worlds: they combine a gas engine’s efficiency...

Tabitha Martens is passionate about food, but “food” is a term that means much more to Martens than a simple Webster’s definition might suggest.

If you’re going to talk about the philosophy of science, it’s important to have some historical background. To help trace a little bit of science’s history, I interviewed Rhonda Martens, a professor of philosophy...

Science produces so many useful technologies and lifts us by our bootstraps out from the domestic drudgeries generations of ancestors were meant to endure; to wit, I haven’t met a single person that thinks...

“Science respects the power of the human intellect; religion belittles it,” claims the former Oxford chemist Peter Atkins. Atkins adds, “Religion is armchair speculation well fitted to adipose brains.” Fellow Oxonian Richard Dawkins says religion...