Starting a small farm
There is nothing more satisfying than eating a meal derived from plants you have grown yourself. Perhaps this is why so many people dream of…
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Farming misconceptions
Agriculture seems to be a controversial topic on campus. Everyone knows we need food in order to survive and without modern agricultural practices we would…
Letters to the Editor – April 6, 2011
The use of the term “crazy” referring to any individual is unwelcome on campus, and has no place at any institute of higher education. Using…
Space robots!
Androids have long been the holy grail of sci-fi, and it seems like we’re one step closer to achieving our space race era dreams. NASA…
Rats & lizards
I spent the Sunday previous, as I’m sure many of you did, watching videos on fractal shapes, the creation of non-Euclidean planes from both beads…
Where’s Penelope?
We live in a country where animal-protection advocacy is overshadowed by indifference: beaten elephants still travel in our circuses; the seal hunt is a fur-export…
What do chickens think?
An interesting experiment was published by the School of Veterinary Sciences in Bristol, U.K.. The paper involves a common, misunderstood and oft-undervalued animal. The experiment…
Forget exoplanets
School-aged children the world over collectively tweeted “WTF” in November 2010, when two astronomers announced that they think there could be a previously undiscovered planet…
Less human than human?
Art, especially literature, is filled with the inner battles of the human psyche — it defines our fears, hopes, underlines our strange uniqueness in the…
Science briefs
Woodpecker brain technology Scientists at UC Berkeley have unraveled the mystery behind the impact-resistant woodpecker brain and are using the knowledge to protect your electronics….