You study at home, right? Beware! Your home may harbor toxins that seep into your flesh, stifle your study power, and even cause brain cancer. No, I’m not talking about Netflix and Domino’s. I’m talking about radio waves, chemicals, and pesticides. For one, nonorganic foods contain pesticides. When pesticides were sprayed on author Cliff VanGuilder’s… Read more »
HIST 201 / HUMN 201 (Western Thought and Culture 1: Before the Reformation) is a three-credit introductory course that is intended as a foundation course for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of General Studies students. This course has no prerequisites and is designed for students with little or no previous university experience. It provides a… Read more »
Dear Barb: Hi, I am a guy in my thirties, working toward my degree at AU. I was one of the altar boys that were sexually abused by a priest when I was 10 years old. I rarely speak about this abuse and have only told a few people. Now that stuff seems to be… Read more »
Comfort food: succulent hugs in morsel mouthfuls. It’s soulful re-invigoration at a delightful and intangible level. Sinfully delicious or piously nutritious, our hard-studying taste buds deserve the best. We know what we like and we don’t need to ask why. But what if your favourite Canadian dish threatened extinction for a species in the wild?… Read more »
Album: Revel & Ritual: Holiday Music for the World Artists: Greg Herriges and StellaRoma Alright, so I got this last year, too late to tell you about it for Christmas 2017, but better late than never. Besides, right now is the perfect time to listen, stream, order, gift, or what-have-you the best world music holiday… Read more »
I think there are those of us, not few in number, who do not quite fit into the world. Our mothers send us out to the corner store for milk and cigarettes one morning, and we take a wrong turn, stumble through some quantum doorway into a new dimension. When we return home, it is… Read more »
Why study for an International Biology Olympiad? After all, it’s a high school competition and if we’re at AU we’re well beyond that, aren’t we? But studying for mastery gears us for goals. The skills that we’d learn practicing for something as intense as an Olympiad would surely translate into better habits for all our… Read more »
Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born Rebecca Davies on February 8, 1831 in Christiana, Delaware and died March 9, 1895 in Hyde Park Boston, Massachusetts. Crumpler was raised by her aunt, who cared for many of the sick in her neighbourhood. Following her graduation from school, Crumpler worked as a nurse for eight years until 1860… Read more »
A week ago I had the honor to participate in a pie eating competition hosted in Edmonton by the University of Alberta. Being an amateur in the food challenge scene meant I had a large learning curve. The pie was exactly 12 inches wide and 1.85 kg in weight. I had no idea how I… Read more »
Certain woes mother nature clearly intended. To treat these woes, go natural, not medicinal. To illustrate, mother nature willed menopause onto all women. That’s half the world’s population. So, I argue it’s best to treat menopause naturally—but long before it hits. Especially before the hot flashes. So, why naturally, not medicinally? For one, hot flashes… Read more »