Energy consumption of tomorrow, today!
Humans respond to incentive. When fuel prices go up, more people park their cars and take the bus. If the cost of honey goes down,…
technology
Think your Mac is safe from hackers?
Walking in from the brisk autumn weather that blankets our campus and into your first lecture of the day, you are greeted with a glowing…
Buying into the Bionic man
Arrays of technologies — from robotics to bioengineering — are beginning to converge, and this convergence is destined to have profound effects on our future….
Sitting inches away from Dr. Norman Finkelstein
On Oct. 17, Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein, an advocate for human rights and peace in the Middle East, spoke at the Canadian Mennonite University. Finkelstein…
Ask a scientist
What causes brain freeze? Since, according to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), it is the most common cause of headache, odds are most of you…
CD Review : Todd Snider “The Excitement Plan”
Todd Snider delivers another dish of country fried good times on his eighth full-length studio album, The Excitement Plan. Fans of Snider’s will find the…
Better know a prokaryote
The virus formerly known as “swine flu,” or the H1N1 strain of the common influenza virus, has gotten all the press lately, so I thought…
Ben Clarkson’s guide to the perfect C+ paper
As an alumnus of the University of Manitoba and as a former resident of Tache Hall, I know a little something about under-achievement. The A+…
Think you’re a survivor
There’s a lot of hate in the world today. As a social activist, I’d like to do my part to try to reduce some of…
What’s the big deal?
Go ahead, think of a number at random, any number, I’ll wait . . . what was your number? If you chose was 67 then…