There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants for you than to know how to insert compelling and complex arguments in your paper. 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. I’ll also give you straight and honest… Read more »

EP: To Keep From Losing Our Minds Band: Eric and Aaron There are a few criteria that I judge my favourite music by: originality, balanced harmony between vocals and music (especially if there are more than two singers), dramatic bass, emotionally driven vocals, light but thought provoking lyrics, and feelings of epic awesomeness washing over… Read more »

Film: Wild Tales Director: Damián Szifron “If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” – William Shakespeare Are moral lapses forgivable? Of course they are, in a universe wherein love… Read more »

“Yogi hippiography, sell us immortality, PhD without a gig, dirty, broken drill rig, Bible basher black belt, bankers buck a short sell, Kurzweil on a pill-kick, handing down a pink slip, Missionaries at the door, bleeding out at every pore, Democratic fail safe, Money gets you in the game, Money gets you in the game,… Read more »

Writing is personal. Sometimes it’s personal in content, like a journal or memoir?and sometimes there are personal aspects, like a character who goes through a painful experience similar to your own. Then there’s the catharsis that can come from getting your frustration out onto paper (or screen!), and the vindication you feel when you turn… Read more »

Instant replays are great. They leave no doubt about whether the puck went into the net, or which horse won. And they’d be incredibly helpful in all kinds of situations, like proving what your contractor promised he’d do. Now an app called Alibi can do just that, recording your life 24 hours a day. The… Read more »

My name is Philip Kirkbride. I’m a college graduate from Ontario studying at AU. I’ve always wanted to do an exchange program or study abroad but never found the right time to do so. This is the story of how Athabasca University has allowed me to create my own study abroad program. In the last… Read more »

One day while visiting a city library I browsed through their discards to see if I wanted anything for my own collection. That day I bought my first audio books. No, technically that’s not true. I have many, many personal development books and presentations on cassette tapes. Cassette tapes. They may as well be eight… Read more »

Do you love to read? Are you a proverbial bookworm, with the bookish reputation and the face of an owl? You don’t need to look like an owl to love books, but you must peer at books regularly, like on buses, during lunch hours, before bed, and in restaurants. I often read while waiting for… Read more »

Over the past few installments we’ve explored the relationship between brand names and the written word. Last week we discussed whether to genericize product names, like Xerox vs. the verb “to xerox” or Google vs. “to google” (or “to Google,” depending on which dictionary you use). This week we take things a step further and… Read more »