Martin Turczynowicz

Keep your ideas to yourself

Science vs Science Science is without a doubt the greatest tool in explaining the forces behind natural phenomena. It provides us with a common toolset…


Elvis in a bell jar

If the city is a blight, and the suburbs a cancer, then the empty husks of brick and mortar must be the atrophied heart, beating…


Life: all tangled up

How is it that birds, those tiny feathery creatures, were precisely navigating the globe while hominids had not yet managed to efficiently communicate directional information?…


Tiny medical advances

It’s no exaggeration to say that semiconductors have revolutionized every facet of life in industrialized nations. One of the latest results of the silicon transformation…


Science briefs

New semiconductor It may not be graphene that revolutionizes transistors after all, according to an article in the Nature Nanotechnology journal, reports physorg.com. Molybdenite, a…


Kiloh-no!

Break free of physicality once and for all. Let go of the three dimensions, the mass and the matter that holds your fragile world together….


Thunderstorms: Crazier than ever before

With every development in technology and every increase in the sensitivity of detection instruments, it seems the universe only ever gets larger and more complicated….


Introducing Skullspace

Straddling the grey space between programming club, science lab and artist’s collective, SkullSpace is Winnipeg’s first and only hackerspace. Founded by three University of Manitoba…


Science Opinions

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the “discovery” of supposedly arsenic-based bacteria that NASA published in early December. Even respectable media outlets have touted…


Everything sucks

You know what? Fuck the environment. I’m tired of hearing all this garbage about pipelines, oil spills, pesticides, GMO crops. Let’s just all move on…