Canadian hockey robot is in the finals
Go Jennifer! Go!
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Maximize your cultural clout
Want to change the face of the Internet? Want to maximize your cultural clout? Click on ad. Don’t read ad, close ad. That’s the gist of the classic capitalist model of voting with your dollars, revamped to cost you absolutely nothing. I’ll offer a disclaimer here: the Manitoban garners revenue from online advertising. We’re a [...]
Fortunes foretold: five future facts
Future Fact No. 1 The planet is not unchanging. We’ve passed the “tipping point,” we’re showing no signs of curtailing our climate effecting behaviour. I barely need to engage my prophetic powers to know that by 2100 we will inevitably have recognized the fact that we’ve been engaged in slowly boiling our own habitat. The [...]
U of M home to hockey robot
Programmers working at the Autonomous Agents Laboratory may have developed the world’s first humanoid-robot ice-hockey player. Chris Iverach-Brereton, a computer science graduate student at the U of M, has been programming Jennifer — a DARwin open platform named after Canadian hockey player Jennifer Botterill — for less than a month. Thus far the robot is [...]
Forward thinking
An up front look at the Jets
Deep blue-line
Okay Winnipeg fans, reality check: we’re overreacting. Bad things happen in hockey land. The specific things happening to the Jets are hardly of the sort we should be concerned with. A month of poor performance cannot come as a surprise to anyone monitoring the injury lists. None of the injuries appear to be career threatening. [...]
Indigenous research centre open to the public
The University of Manitoba community welcomed its first research space dedicated to studying Indigenous communities to its Fort Garry campus last Wednesday. Mamawipawin, located on the fourth floor of the Isbister building, is intended to facilitate the gathering and dissemination of the research of Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Politics and Governance Kiera Ladner and [...]
Climbing robotic tank
Something of gravity is developing in Simon Fraser University’s research labs. Gravity defying that is. Researchers have put together a machine on the edge, a machine that can crawl over the edge and down the other side. The robot constructed by the team is not all that weighty, but it may make a big impact. [...]
Boast worthy borscht
Smooth, delicious, hearty, majestic and intriguingly complex — this recipe reminds me of myself (my partner insists that I mention how simple it is). Serve this borscht and see if you can avoid growing a big head. Don’t worry; your guests won’t begrudge your arrogant smirk when they ask for seconds. Ingredients: Olive oil 1 [...]
Marijuana: Four decades, no change
It is difficult for Canadians to talk openly about drugs without hurting our chances of getting jobs or getting over the border in the future. Frankly, I am not sure I ought to be writing this. But open dialogue is a prerequisite of healthy democracy. Let us talk about pot. In a 2007 United Nations’ [...]