Lookout!
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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...
Be like Bond
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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...
What would Carl Sagan say?
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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...
Harper uses new math to kill the CWB
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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...
Multiple sclerosis research at the U of M
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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...
Interview with Greg Selinger
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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...
Splitting every vote
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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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