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My Experience with Wikipedia

My experience with Wikipedia has been a source of frustration.  I shared The Marriage Foundation’s unconventional views on unconditional love, which lasted a day or two.  And then it was promptly deleted.  Then, I attempted to contribute to a page on AI and consciousness, citing a large-scale longitudinal study, only to have my comments dismissed… Read more »

AU-Thentic Events

Library Chat Tues, Sep 10, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page AU Has a Library?  Navigating the Library Website and Search Tools Tues, Sep 10, 1:00 to 1:30 pm MDT Online via MS Teams Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/news/events/au-has-a-library-navigating-the-library-website-and-search-tools-2… Read more »

Hong Kong Pork Floss Buns Recipe

Among some of my favorite breakfast items from Chinese bakeries include these pork floss buns.  You might be wondering, “what the heck is pork floss?”  Pork floss, also known as “rousong” in Chinese, is a dried, fluffy, and flavorful shredded pork product that is commonly used in East Asian cuisine.  It is made by stewing… Read more »

Hosting Your Dream Party—Part II

As alluded to in last week’s column, planning and hosting a party in real life can be an onerous undertaking: exhausting, time-consuming, prohibitively expensive, and usually disappointing.  In contrast, putting together a celebratory event solely on the plane of the imagination is a more or less stress-free affair – especially if you follow my carefully… Read more »

Cities in Six—Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Luxembourg is the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a small country wedged between Belgium, France, and Germany.  The city is in the south of the country, at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers. Luxembourg’s site on a plateau has given it strategic importance since Roman times.  The city has, at… Read more »

Minds We Meet—Alaa

The Voice Magazine recently had a chance to chat with Alaa (she/they), a student living in British Columbia who is currently enrolled in PSYC 289: Psychology as a Natural Science.  (She recently completed PSYC 402: Biological Psychology). Alaa mentioned, “I am so grateful to be studying, working, and living on the traditional unceded lands of… Read more »

Minds We Meet—Chimaraoke Obinna

The Voice Magazine recently had a chance to chat with Chimaraoke Obinna (he/him), a Bachelor of Professional Arts in Human Services program student living in Calgary, Alberta. Chimaraoke stated, “I acknowledge that I live, work, and study on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina… Read more »