Close encounter
The universe is beginning to look a lot less lonely than it used to. The probability of all of the components coming together in an…
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The science of hatred
In the 1962 movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis play siblings whose rivalry and hatred for each other almost…
Better know a prokaryote
Escherichia coli, or E. coli, as its friends know it, has gotten a pretty bad rap lately. From tainting water supplies in Walkerton, Ontario to…
Human versus machine
In the boardrooms, laboratories and command centres of space agencies around the world a war is coming — a war, which will pit burley astronauts,…
Out of the minds of babes
Developmental psychologists are fond of telling us that we can, contrary to popular opinion, read each other’s minds. The initial excitement of this prospect quickly…
Dr. Know
Cordial greetings once more, thou hairless arthropoid. Things are really rolling now, so I’ll need to try my very best not to overwhelm your itsy-bitsy…
Ask a scientist
What causes brain freeze? Since, according to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), it is the most common cause of headache, odds are most of you…
Zoological investigations IV
The golden bamboo lemur, Hapalemur aureus was not formally discovered until the ripe old year of 1987 on that beautiful and mysterious island located off…
U of M scores low on ‘green’ report card, accuracy of score debated
The University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba have scored a C- and C+ respectively on the College Sustainability Report Card. Out of all…
Website promotes borrowing, lending instead of tossing in trash
With the economy turning sour, people are looking for creative ways to save money. Many have turned to BorrowMe.com, an online forum where people can…