U of M one step closer to a more eco-friendly campus
The University of Manitoba sustainability committee recently released a draft of their sustainability strategy, which aims to present an organized vision of a sustainable university,…
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Wrapped-up in time
For those of you who may have been raised under the ocean, deep underground in secret government bunkers or have been hermits for most of…
Planes, trains and automobiles . . . oh, and spaceships
Depending on where you’d like to go, the cost of travel can range in price. It costs $2.40 to ride a bus around Winnipeg, or…
Lookout!
On Sept. 23, 2011 NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) — a “bus sized” object, decommissioned in 2005 — re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and…
New centre aims to educate youth on farming
If you ate today, thank a farmer” is the last message you read when you walk out of the new Bruce D. Campbell Farm and…
A letter to my future self
Dear future self, I would say it’s been a long time but, somehow, I doubt it has. I’ve decided to write you this letter both…
How to drive forever
What if eight grams of fuel could power your car for a lifetime? What if that fuel was a radioactive element? Would you still be…
Computers designed like brains
Nature often supplies us with great ideas for engineering. Leonardo da Vinci drew concepts of flying machines based on observing birds in motion, centuries before…
Local Briefs
Petition circulated to beef up math skills Close to 200 people, most of them professors, have signed a petition to toughen up admission standards to…
Smart, observant, fighty
For things we can’t see, we go to PAMELA (or Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics), a module attached to a Russian satellite…