Defining pornography
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart once said that he could not define pornography. “But I know it when I see it,” he famously…
Tom Ingram
‘People are talking’
Tom Ingram, staff A recent article ran on the New York Times website with the headline “Possible Meteor Over California Has Social Media Abuzz.” CTV’s…
Google’s mystery barges
For two weeks now, a story has been developing that seems more like the ominous beginning of a science fiction novel than genuine news. On…
Following up on free-choice learning
Jill Bueddefeld is a graduate student in the faculty of kinesiology and recreation management.
‘Turning the crank’
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…
Time’s arrow: Antoine Lavoisier
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…
Floating away
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…
Time’s arrow: Alan Turing
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…
Deciding to die
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…
WSO preview
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…