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• Animal rights and academic freedom

  I wish I had never seen the tight, wretched cages in which pigs are kept...

• Why only monogamy?

  In group marriage, everyone is married to everyone else, and the economics and child-rearing are...

• Put the Beaver to bed

  Everything was fine until Neil Young finished his performance. The Olympic torch was extinguished, and...

• Critics of local food miss the point

  Eating local is about knowing, really knowing what goes into your food — investing in...

• And another one

  On Feb. 27, Chile experienced an earthquake that ranks in the top five strongest earthquakes...

Features

• Yes, print journalism has a future

  A lot of very educated people, ones who won spelling bees when they were younger...

• The Future of Books

  Around 40,000 years ago, humankind inscribed the first symbolic representations of the world on cave...

• Staying Ahead of the Media Curve

  Every day the digital world continues to move towards facilitating the way we do almost...

• The new validity of social media

  Sometimes, when the rate of social change is so rapid and its effects so broad...

• I will survive

  I was at a student journalism conference this past January entitled “Natural Selection” —not exactly...

Science

• Dr. Know

  Dr. Know risks an olfactory implosion by inviting you hairless apes back into his den....

• Get More Sleep

  Feeling the blues? Might be the weather, might be the workload, but it could also...

• Math 4 Life

  If you keep on reducing something by half, how long will it take until everything...

• What's in a name?

  To those who say "chemistry os boring" I say, "you obviously aren't familiar with how...

• Science briefs

  Province-sized icebergs, luddites, shorter days and Higgs bosons . . . oh my!

Culture

• Dramatization!

  The quill quivered between Thomas’ shivering fingers as he wrote his final lines. Years of...

• Overstressed and overcommitted

  This is an article for the stressed out overachiever who has spread themselves thin. According...

• Quiet times at the rez

  Author’s note: The material presented below is intended for a mature audience and some of...

• Creative cleaning solutions

  Cleaning your bathroom is boring, but experiments aren’t. Sometimes just trying something new and creative...

• When and wear

  Every year I wait with bated breath, well more like chapped lips and half-bitten fingernails,...

Arts

• Danger! Highly dubious ancedotes

  I’m still debating the validity of all this, but true or not, you’ve got to...

• In search of Mr. Chi Pig

  "He's unpredictable and dangerous which is something really lacking in punk music today.”

• No risk, no reward

  A pair of University of Manitoba music students is looking to transform the Winnipeg art...

• Stop having a boring theatre, stop having a boring life

  Remember The Night is more mellifluous than lugubrious.

• Hands-on and Hyperlinked

  3 years in the making! 80 characters! 30 actors! A plethora of storylines!
  

Sports

• Hot yoga just got hotter

  ‘The meaning of the term "Moksha" in Sanskrit is to literally release or let go....

• Tiger Woods: the robot

  A common trait many of these superhuman athletes possess is the ability to react like...

• NHL trade deadline fallout

  Following a veritable who’s who of who cares, the Panthers try to make missing the...

• The Gruesome twosome

  Once the idea that “lifestyle change” is not the same as “profile picture change” or...

• Bison briefs

  In men’s hockey the Bisons won their three game playoff series 2-1 against the University...