The act of eating has become something more than nourishing our body; it is a bad habit which promotes excessive intake of food. In 1998, the World Health Organization classified obesity as a “growing epidemic.” Obesity is defined by a body mass index (BMI) that is greater than 30. In North America, there is an [...]
The Olympics have come and gone. And now the Paralympics are over as well. Amid all of the controversy, calamity and triumph, there is a legacy from the 2010 winter games that is just beginning to grow. As part of Vancouver’s bid to host the Olympics, the Aboriginal Youth Sports Legacy Fund (AYSLF) was created [...]
Belly dancing classes can be found nearly everywhere these days, at almost every recreation centre or dance studio in cities across North America. Even my hometown of Russell Man., at a population of 1,500 people, had two belly-dancing classes offered at the local dance academy. Given the exotic and often seductive appearance of the dance, [...]
Football Last week the Bisons announced two new additions to the football club as high school prospects Evan Gill and Thomas Miles have committed to play in the upcoming 2010 season. Both players were part of the 2008 ANAVETS Bowl Champion Churchill Bulldogs and were both highly scouted by competing CIS teams. Gill, a defensive [...]
I recently met a kid wearing Reebok Pumps. Nostalgic images of Michael Jordan in his prime flashed in my mind as I recalled the days when the Pumps were the most cutting-edge basketball shoes around. After asking him if I could check out his shoes, I pushed the little inflatable basketball on the tongue of [...]
University of Manitoba professors Dr. David Levin and Dr. Richard Sparling have been collecting Tim Hortons cups on campus in order to further their research to convert the cups into biofuel — such as ethanol or hydrogen — using bacteria that eat cellulose. Dr. Levin, associate professor of biosystems engineering, said, “What we do is [...]
The decision to approve the zero percent increase was made by the management resources and compensation committee at Tuesday’s board meeting. “It’s a prudent step, and a responsible step, given it’s a challenging economic time,” said university spokesperson John Danakas. At this point, these salary range adjustments are limited to the executive group and the [...]
One of the most devastating events in the history of life on Earth is believed to have happened 65.5 million years ago, when an asteroid approximately 15 km across impacted our planet in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, killing off the dinosaurs and setting the stage for our mammalian domination of the [...]
What if I told you that enough of the sun’s energy strikes the Earth every hour to power the entire planet for a full year? That would mean that if we could collect 100 per cent of the energy hitting the earth, we could collect a full day’s energy in as little as 10 seconds. [...]
With the results of a study published in the March 11 issue of Current Biology, scientists from University College London (UCL) have brought us closer to understanding how memories are fixed in our brains. The study focuses on the recall of episodic memories, which, according to Jonathan Marotta, a neuroscientist here at the University of [...]