Growing pains
To say that the Internet can be controversial is a supreme understatement. With but a few keystrokes, sites containing literally anything can be happened upon…
Leif Larsen
Science Briefs
LHC collides hadrons at 7 TeV The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced on March 30, 2010 that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had…
Canada: a haven for pirates
Earlier this month, a Montreal man was convicted of illegally recording a movie in the theatre, and sentenced to 2 ½ months in jail. This…
Avoid the gas station
Nothing, it seems, motivates people quite as strongly as money. Like it or not, financial loss or gain is one of the best ways to…
Vikings keep biodiversity safe
Buried in the permafrost on a tiny island in the Arctic Ocean is a vault, which may contain the future of humankind. It doesn’t contain…
Solar power
What if I told you that enough of the sun’s energy strikes the Earth every hour to power the entire planet for a full year?…
Cosmologists know nothing
Science was proved fallible once again, when NASA’s gamma ray telescope made a startling discovery: galaxies don’t emit as much gamma rays as was previously…
In soviet russia, plant eat you
Plants get a bum rap for being lazy do-nothings who are content to bask in the sun all day if you let them. Furthermore, a…
Formula One: The soap opera of sports
Every second Sunday morning between March and October I get up at the crack of 5 a.m., turn on the coffee maker, and watch cars…
CD Review: Hawksley Workman, “Meat”
I am throwing my hands up in the air. When I listen to an album, I try my hardest to find some kind of pattern….