Jill Bueddefeld is a graduate student in the faculty of kinesiology and recreation management.

Students and faculty gathered in the engineering building on Tuesday for an armchair session on Ethics and Engineering Education. The event, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering, the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics,...

In the late eighteenth century, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier discovered fire." This is how the futurist and artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky described it, and he's not far off the mark. Through much of the...

It’s getting harder to fill a balloon these days. That’s because we’re in the midst of a helium shortage as the U.S. prepares to shut down a major storage facility near Amarillo, Texas. Although its...

Science education tends to be a strange mixture of technical concepts and history. Ideally this gives us the best of both worlds: we learn how to get things done, but we also learn how...

The evening was warm on Sept. 10. At Riverview Community Centre, around 50 people gathered to hear a lecture about death. The talk, entitled “The Great Canadian Euthanasia Debate: Where are we now?” was...

This weekend the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) presents the inaugural concert of the 2013-14 season. With a host of curiosities and surprises, plus a few old warhorses mixed in, this is the most interesting...