Road trip . . . to the Fringe Festival
It’s the last Friday night of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and it begins with Facebook.com. I decide that because today is the first day I…
August 2010
Sit back and enjoy the ride
Since I was a kid, I’ve always looked forward to summer because it means one thing in my family: road trips. I’m not picky: a…
The snow and weed tour
I t was past midnight, the sky black and the road obscured by heavy white snowflakes that seemed to come not only from above but…
Spontaneity and The Open Road
T here are several immutable laws of the universe: conservation of mass, the speed of light, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principal . . . but perhaps the…
Breaking Down the Road Trip Mix Tape
T he headlights caught the moose around midnight, just as we sped around a turn on the highway. All we saw were massive, yawning antlers…
The Art of Road tripping
T here is an art to road tripping that is both gritty and glamorous. Requiring a willingness to embrace the unknown and forego comfort, road…
Science book review
I like birds. Although I have probably passed my prime birding days — when I lived in my Jeep for months at a time and…
Get to know the Arduino
So, let’s say you want to get into programming microcontrollers, but — and I know this may sound entirely implausible — you don’t have a…
Zoological investigations
The Andean condor is the largest raptor in the world. Adults weigh between 20 to 30 pounds and can reach a shocking 1.2 metres in…
Solar Doom!
Last week, according to NASA, the sun emitted a class C solar flare that produced what scientists refer to as a coronal mass ejection (CME)….