News

Lookout!

By
Leif Larsen
On Sept. 23, 2011 NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) — a “bus sized” object, decommissioned in 2005 — re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and probably broke up over the Pacific Ocean according...
Features

Be like Bond

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Leif Larsen
Forget Texas Hold ’em, James bond would never play such a common and crude game — unless he was seducing a beautiful woman that is. Along with shaken vodka martinis, tuxedos, Walther PPKs and...
News

What would Carl Sagan say?

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Leif Larsen
E=MC^2 is the theory of mass-energy equivilance, and hinges on the value of the constant “C,” or the speed of light, which is about 300 million metres per second — thought to be the...
Comment

Harper uses new math to kill the CWB

By
Leif Larsen
I’ve come to the disturbing conclusion that Canadians in general and the Conservative Party of Canada in particular can’t count. Here are some examples: -Between 2006 and May 2011 Stephen Harper and his Conservatives led...
News

Multiple sclerosis research at the U of M

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Leif Larsen
According to Emma Frost, a professional associate in the University of Manitoba’s faculty of pharmacy, multiple sclerosis (MS) is a regionalized disease. “We are advocating for patients who are suffering from a disease that...
News

Interview with Greg Selinger

By
Leif LarsenSarah Petz
During his visit to the University of Manitoba, Greg Selinger, leader of the provincial NDP, sat down with Manitoban editor-in-chief Leif Larsen and news editor Sarah Petz, where we grilled him on some of...
News

Splitting every vote

By
Leif Larsen
We’re splitting every vote,” said Caitlin McIntyre, Green party candidate for Fort Richmond, referring to the rhetoric that the Greens are splitting the left vote during the Manitoba provincial election. McIntyre insists Manitoba’s Greens...
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