Assessing your mental health with inkblots
What do you learn when you look at an inkblot? Well, some researchers believe that they can help you to reveal the unconscious workings of…
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U of M Engineering student publication causes stir with Valentine’s Day issue
An engineering students’ publication at the University of Manitoba has caused a stir this past week with its recent Valentine’s Day issue, being called raunchy,…
The age of things
Just over 200 years ago, the prevailing belief popularized by religious mythology was that the planet earth had been around for just some 10,000 years….
Thoughts on the future of you, me and humanity
Think of a world where anything is possible. Ahhhhhh, bliss. The colours. The smells. The joy. This world is like a never-ending lucid dream, where…
Pets!
I’ll put together a team of experts: the foremost zoologist in the world, the number one psychoanalyst, the most advanced child psychologist, the fittest evolutionary…
That’s too big!
Arabic numerals, which are what we here in Canada and the scientific community at large use to represent numbers, were a huge advancement over the…
Life after death
Whoa, you just died. Nice one. Only a moment ago, there you were — alive, lying in bed, in a clean, white room. Your family…
Sudoku: Behind the scenes
Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he…
The age of things
Two hundred kilometers north of Winnipeg is Nopiming Provincial Park, a place full of backwater camping and hiking trails, and, as it happens, precambrian rocks…
Memory improves if you take a rest
Memory (among other things) is impaired when you are sleep-deprived, and having a full night of sleep (around eight hours, depending on the person) maximizes…