Hello again readers of the Manitoban and welcome to late June. It is just about that time to start planning your doom — I mean future — for this fall and what better way to get back into the swing of things but by learning a little about something even smaller and more insignificant than [...]
The Manitoban
The Students' Newspaper of the University of Manitoba
Archive for June, 2010
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This just in, computers can read your mind
Science fiction has often played with the concept of analyzing the brains of the recently dead for clues about the circumstances of their death. The less fortunate among you may remember the less than popular 1999 film Wild Wild West staring Will Smith and Kevin Kline. In the sci-fi action-comedy, Kline’s character is seen in [...]
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Science opinions
If you had almost two hours to kill last week—like I did—you may have sat down in front of your computer with a coffee and watched the full-length iPhone 4 keynote address. Of all the “revolutionary” iPhone 4 advancements Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, announced during his speech, the one that seemed to garner the most [...]
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Love + delusion
“Humans will start falling in love with [and marrying] robots, probably in about 30 or 40 years.” –David Levy (2007) On Nov. 22, 2009 guests were invited to a Tokyo wedding and, along with those who watched live via the Japanese website NicoNico Douga, celebrated the love between the Japanese man nicknamed “Sal9000” and his [...]
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Science Briefs
Solar storms pose risk to planet Earth, NASA warns Richard Fisher, director of NASA’s heliophysics division, warns that wide spread blackouts and a loss of communication may occur if the earth is hit by a wave of solar flares, reported the UK’s Daily Telegraph. Solar storms will cause the sun to reach temperatures of 5,500 [...]
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Letters to the Editor – June 23, 2010
Dear Samantha Lockhart, I am an international PhD student at the University of Manitoba. Recently I have had a chance to go through your article entitled “Putting an end to Apathy” published in the Manitoban. Since I have been associated with charity organizations working in the majority of the world, I can understand very well the message you have [...]
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The proper route to becoming a journalist
Some people say that in order to become a good journalist you need to go to journalism school. That journalism is an old-boys network where someone has to have the right connections, connections that they would get through journalism school, but I say this is not true. Fact of the matter is that, from my [...]
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Wild Winnipeg
The snow is off the ground in Winnipeg and that can only mean one thing, mosquitos are terrorizing people everywhere — especially in my back yard. With the annual emergence of Aedes vexans — what many Winnipeggers think of when they think “mosquito” — two more familiar species begin to appear in our fair city: [...]
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Bullet holes and noise rock
Freud’s Bathhouse and Diner is demonstrably not a bathhouse, diner or in any way associated with anyone named Freud. Instead, it is a gallery run by Kristel Jax and Mark Wohlgemuth. To investigate the name further, though, feels like walking into a trap designed to expose ignorance. The Manitoban has been assured that there is [...]
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Summer festival, super fun!
Around August last year, I spent a day walking about the University of Manitoba campus asking idle students which summer events or activities they attended, if they liked them and which they might recommend to other students in the coming years. I was excited to hear an unadulterated student perspective of the summer fun we [...]