Tom Ingram

The Singularity

Imagine that a team of scientists has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) with capabilities unfathomably far beyond the human mind. As soon as this AI…


Time’s arrow: William Herschel

William Herschel did not begin his career as a professional scientist. For the first several decades of his life astronomy was just a hobby. His…


The string’s the thing

Last week’s Dream Big conference featured a number of events aimed at a general audience, but one was definitely for the physics in-crowd. On March…


Dream Big

Campus will be bustling this week with lectures, demonstrations, and exhibitions for Dream Big, a series of events that brings together major figures in space…


<strong>CS Women</strong>

The Computer Science Students’ Association (CSSA) has announced that they will be sending two teams to the 2014 Computer Science (CS) Games, one of which…



The price of convenience

Seemingly everyone has a smartphone these days. According to surveys from 2013, almost half of all Canadians and more than half of all Americans use…


Time’s arrow: the Sokal hoax

In 1996, New York University physics professor Alan Sokal tried an experiment: he wrote an article satirizing deconstructionist philosophy and its abuses of scientific terminology,…


The science of music

It is said that music has a much more precise vocabulary for describing its objects than any other art. This allows us to talk scientifically…