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Financial constraints leave some students homeless
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With apartment vacancy rates in Winnipeg dropping below one per cent over the summer, some U of M students are facing a dire shortage of affordable housing.
In some extreme cases, students have admitted...
Science opinions
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The following article was selected as the winner of a contest held by Christina Penner in her technical writing for computer scientists course, which teaches students how to write relevant and understandable papers directed...
Science briefs
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Bad driving — damn genetics!
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that people with a genetic variation may be predisposed to being bad drivers.
The gene variation in question reduces the amount...
Zoological investigations
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While my long-term goal as a volunteer science writer does include developing a ravenous cult following the size of Winnipeg, I am not yet so megalomaniacal as to expect that just five articles spanning...
Cleanliness really is next to godliness
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Finding a dime in a phone box, not being in a rush, having other people nearby, background noise — these are all things that unconsciously affect our moral behaviour, scientists claim.
The latest addition to...
Animals in the sack
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To many of us, our first exposure to sex came at the paws of an animal, tugging on our parents’ coat sleeves, whilst exclaiming “Mommy, Mommy those two monkeys are killing each other.” For...
