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Zoological investigations
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Ah, summer in Winnipeg: muggy heat we can’t stand after eight months of zero humidity and freakishly cold winter, freak storms, flooding, mosquitoes, canker worms, E. coli-infested eutrophic lakes — we love it all...
Summer battery blowout
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There’s been an incredible amount of progress in electrical charge storage over the summer with two huge innovations on a nano-sized scale. Both findings are set to revolutionize the battery market and may even...
Science opinions
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I’m usually a fairly calm and rational person. Really, I am. But when I caught my boyfriend simultaneously hugging me and responding to an e-mail on his smartphone last week, I’ll admit that I...
U of M introduces co-curricular record
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They say that 80 per cent of academic breakthroughs occur outside the classroom, and it appears the University of Manitoba has been listening. Starting this fall, students who participate in co-curricular activities will have...
U Manitoba launches student app
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Need your grades, library books and bus schedules on the go? There’s an app for that.
The University of Manitoba’s Web Services department has developed a new UManitoba app for iPhone and Android, with a...
Evolution’s spiral
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Numbers are pretty amazing things . . . I won’t pretend to know much about them, and I freely admit that I have a restraining order against pre-calculus, but I’m still fascinated by digits....
UMSU announces new pub name
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With the construction of the new campus pub at the University of Manitoba about to begin, UMSU has released the new name and logo of what will be “The Hub.”
Camilla Tapp, UMSU president, said...
