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,…
Leif Larsen
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…
CD Review : Corb Lund “Losin Lately Gambler”
The first song I heard on Corb Lund’s new album, Losin’ Lately Gambler was “A Game in Town Like This,” and, frankly, it filled me…
What would Gretzky do?
I recently drove to Minneapolis to hear Kevin Smith, of Clerks fame, give a three-hour talk on whatever was on his mind. The topic of…
Events in science
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…
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles currently still require oil
Let’s face it; hydrogen fuel cells are really awesome. In goes some hydrogen — which just happens to be the most abundant element in the…
Better know a prokaryote
The virus formerly known as “swine flu,” or the H1N1 strain of the common influenza virus, has gotten all the press lately, so I thought…
Carbon, we hardly know ye
You are mostly water and carbon. Oh, sure, there is some nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, along with a host of other elements thrown in there,…
Communal living means always having to say: “you’re sorry”
An open letter to the people downstairs, who keep smoking pot and cigarettes in the house: Did you think I wouldn’t notice? Well, did you?…
Alan Turing
“The allied invasion of occupied France was the beginning of the end.” “The Nazis spreading themselves over too many fronts lead to their own defeat.”…