It is the mark of good cheerleading to make gravity defying stunts appear effortless and enjoyable to a crowd of sports fans. Yet behind their grins and aura of ease, cheerleaders are athletes who train up to six times a week. The Bison cheerleading team was established in 2003 and is co-coached by Nadia El-Gabalawy [...]
The Manitoban
The Students' Newspaper of the University of Manitoba
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Legends of the Periphery: Food Hurricane, Takeru Kobayashi
From time to time even some of the greatest and most prolific heroes in all of sports fall through the cracks of obscurity and are lost to the world at large. “Legends of the periphery” celebrates the best of the best among the forgotten, the bizarre, the esoteric and the obscure. In the world of [...]
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Ultimate fighting in the streets
In the past three years, groups where young men consensually fight each other have emerged in various parts of North America. Some find joyful rewards while others suffer bloody, horrifying consequences. After looking further into this phenomenon, I have come to the conclusion that fighting illegally is, to me, both foolish and irresponsible. However, I [...]
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Herd the news about Bison hockey?
The 2009-10 regular season is shaping up to be an interesting affair for both the men’s and women’s Bison hockey teams. With the men’s team now in full swing and the women’s team gearing up for their Oct. 16 regular season debut, it feels like just the right time for students to start getting excited [...]
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Wesmen defeated at Duckworth Challenge
The cross-town rivalry between the University of Winnipeg Wesmen and the University of Manitoba Bisons flared last week at the 19th annual Duckworth Challenge. The Challenge involved both men’s and women’s volleyball and basketball teams and took place on both campuses. On Tuesday, Oct. 5, the volleyball portion of the tournament took place at the [...]
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Human versus machine
In the boardrooms, laboratories and command centres of space agencies around the world a war is coming — a war, which will pit burley astronauts, who excel at winning the hearts and minds of the space-exploration funding taxpayers, against the metallic reason and spider-like appendages of space probes, and their bespectacled, and pocket protected creators. [...]
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Out of the minds of babes
Developmental psychologists are fond of telling us that we can, contrary to popular opinion, read each other’s minds. The initial excitement of this prospect quickly wears off when we find out the sort of mundane mental events they are referring to — namely, the ability to infer another person’s beliefs, desires or goals from their [...]
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Dr. Know
Cordial greetings once more, thou hairless arthropoid. Things are really rolling now, so I’ll need to try my very best not to overwhelm your itsy-bitsy brains. You humans are renowned for limited arteriovenous cranial cooling, I know, so I’ll suppose that meltdown of the cerebellum should be highest on my list of worries. Not that [...]
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Ask a scientist
What causes brain freeze? Since, according to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), it is the most common cause of headache, odds are most of you have experienced “brain freeze,” or sphenopalatino ganglioneuralgia, as the science-types call it. Brain freeze occurs when very cold beverages or foods are pressed up against the top of the mouth [...]
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Zoological investigations IV
The golden bamboo lemur, Hapalemur aureus was not formally discovered until the ripe old year of 1987 on that beautiful and mysterious island located off the eastern coast of Africa — Madagascar. This wonderful little primate is typically about 11-18″ long (not including the 9-13″ long tail) and weighs only 3.5 lbs on average. It [...]