By Sean Willett
Kohei Tanaka, a University of Calgary PhD student, won the Colbert Student Poster Prize at this year’s Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting. The prize is awarded to a student at the meeting who presents important research clearly and effectively, and is one of the most prestigious awards available to students studying paleontology. “Winning the… Continue reading U of C student wins prestigious paleontogy prize
By Sean Willett
By Sean Willett
If you haven’t listened to an Arcade Fire album since Funeral, the music on Reflektor will come as a bit of a surprise. Since their debut album, the Canadian band has moved away from traditional indie-rock and towards a more ephemeral and unconventional sound. This shift is most noticeable in their latest album, which almost… Continue reading Spun: Arcade Fire
By Sean Willett
Bell, one of Canada’s largest telecom companies, has recently announced that they are going to begin collecting more detailed data from their customers for the purpose of selling this information to advertisers and third parties. This reveal will hardly come as a surprise to many Canadians. All three of Canada’s biggest telecom companies — Telus,… Continue reading Northern Sprites: Crack in the bell
By Sean Willett
If you started reading this editorial expecting to learn about conclusive Bigfoot-related evidence, you will be disappointed. In fact, if you begin reading most articles that sport unbelievable, sensationalist headlines, you will be disappointed. That is, if you begin reading them at all. To get this out of the way, Bigfoot isn’t real. There is… Continue reading Scientists prove Bigfoot is real
By Sean Willett
When asked about which commercial industries are the most right wing in their politics, the technology industry usually isn’t at the top of people’s lists. Yet tech companies can rival banks and oil companies in their distaste for regulation, with the people in the tech community sometimes taking these beliefs to the utmost extreme. In… Continue reading Northern Sprites: The politics of tech
By Sean Willett
By Sean Willett
Valve — a company mostly known for developing popular video games such as Portal and Team Fortress 2 — has recently announced the upcoming release of a Linux-based operating system meant to be compatible with the company’s popular PC game distribution network, Steam. Along with this operating system, titled SteamOS, Valve also intends to develop… Continue reading Northern Sprites: A hearty bowl of SteamOS
By Sean Willett
On the afternoon of Sept. 14, fourth-year geophysics major Cayleb Graves had his lunch stolen from him by a large bird of prey. His sandwich, which had only just been purchased from Subway, was reportedly plucked out of his hands and carried away in the talons of the bird. “I was just about to take… Continue reading Student’s sandwich stolen by eagle
By Sean Willett