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Campus beat

Welcome the first edition of the “Campus Beat,” which hopes to help us provide more coverage of life here at the University of Manitoba. Feel…





UMSU notes

The University of Manitoba Student’s Union (UMSU) met on Jan. 27, 2010.   Representatives from Housing and Student Life, Paul Babiak and Vadim Levin, gave…



Introducing Skullspace

Straddling the grey space between programming club, science lab and artist’s collective, SkullSpace is Winnipeg’s first and only hackerspace. Founded by three University of Manitoba…


Science Opinions

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the “discovery” of supposedly arsenic-based bacteria that NASA published in early December. Even respectable media outlets have touted…



A dark night for bats

Given the scale and diversity of most animal populations, it is a rare thing to talk about extinction on the same time scale we might…