I’m trying something a bit different this week in The Voice Magazine. Our feature article, by Jason Hazel-Rah Sullivan, is a bit more challenging of a read than I typically publish. His look into the relations between humans and animals touches on philosophy, physiology, and our own psychology, but has done so through an unusual… Read more »
At Home: Windsor University Faculty Asssociation holding Strike Vote On August 14th, the Windsor University Faculty Association(WUFA) will be holding a vote to see if they will proceed with a strike in response to the university’s move to implement a new contract that has been rejected by the staff and faculty. The CBC reports that… Read more »
Dr. Cindy Ives has become the new Vice-President Academic of Athabasca University, succeeding Dr. Alex Kondra as the previous Acting Vice-President Academic, as an interim position which will run until June 30, 2016, and is renewable. If the name seems familiar it is because Dr. Ives was fairly active in the etext discussions in the… Read more »
Who needs vacation? Summer is all about fun and games, and some of those good times may be hidden in your living room right now. This week has some fun (ahem!) with books, games, and toys. Inside the Toy Chest Have you ever looked inside a toy? This innovative x-ray photography shows you a few… Read more »
Susan Malmstrom is an artist specialising in digitally produced photography. She grew up and studied in California, received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine, and has lived in Canada since 2004. Her life’s work manifests a sense of wonder, curiousity, a love of memorablilia, an obsession… Read more »
There is nothing more that the Study Dude wants than to see you graduate with Honors, win a silver medallion, become CEO of a major international corporation, and write your memoirs. Well, in these articles, as The Study Dude, I’ll try to give you the study tips you need to help make your learning easier…. Read more »
For the most part, car problems are predictable. A new set of brakes one month, maybe a new exhaust system the next. But now that our cars are getting more like driveable computers, there’s a new headache for drivers to face. It’s car hacking, a type of cyber attack in which hackers target the computerized… Read more »
You might be an editor if at least five people posted Weird Al Yankovic’s “Word Crimes” music video on your Facebook page. You might be an editor if it made you laugh and cringe all at once. You might be an editor if the silly satire stayed with you for weeks. Word Crimes If you… Read more »
Standing in the shower reading the label on my hair conditioner, it occurred to me, as I’m sure it has to many other humans, that at some level we are the guinea pigs who hair care products are tested on. At a common sense level the hair conditioner chemicals are harmless, of course, yet there… Read more »
