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Think your Mac is safe from hackers?
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Walking in from the brisk autumn weather that blankets our campus and into your first lecture of the day, you are greeted with a glowing ambience of laptops. With keys clacking and notes noted,...
Dr. Know and the sixth dimension
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I’m not sure why I continue to write these every week. I’m almost positive that I lost most of you after our diatribe went onto the fourth dimension. Heck, some of you pea-brained ignoramuses...
Wilson’s Words
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Scientists love to introduce new terms. Often in the world of science, the occasion to christen something means that a new and exciting phenomenon or organism has been discovered and naturally needs to be...
Better know a prokaryote
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It’s obscenely difficult to turn on a television set these days without seeing a woman in a yoga suit talking about the advantages of probiotics in her yogurt. And while all sorts of lofty...
Events in science
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Interested in getting more involved on and off campus? Want to see how professors spend their free time? Need something thrifty to do with your Friday night date? Come out to some of these...
Better know a prokaryote
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One need only to look at the more than 100 pages of comments on Cbc.ca following the website’s story on the approval of the H1N1 vaccine to get a snapshot of public mistrust of...
Dr. Know examines the fifth dimension . . . almost
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Well hello again, dimensional ignoramus. I honestly didn’t expect to see you again after that last lesson; it was a doozy. Well, do not get overly cozy, you of hairy openings; this one’s going...
