Predictions are fun, especially when they have to do with cool, futuristic science. Will cars ever fly? Will we colonize another planet? Still, there’s one forecast that seems a little disturbing?letting the cloud upload data directly from our brains. One tech futurist claims it will be reality in the next 20 years. But is that… Read more »

Dear Barb: My boyfriend and I have been dating for two years. He is awesome! I truly love him, but lately he’s been spending a lot of time with my best friend. They always got along well and I was happy about that because my previous boyfriend did not get along with Sarah and it… Read more »

Album: Fever Band: Canopy Climbers Technology is perhaps one of humankind’s crowning achievements. It allows me to introduce you to new music every week, I am able to connect with different types of musicians all over the planet, and, most importantly for AU students, technology has allowed us to learn and grow as people. For… Read more »

Album: Relics Artist: Faded Paper Figures “To become a meditating astronaut, in our view, means using our technological and political tools to come to a more thoughtful, earth-saving perspective, realizing that our place in the cosmos is small, sacred, and fragile.” – Faded Paper Figures A glance at their day jobs? Heather Alden is a… Read more »

In this space I’ve written about the ongoing drama of building our new garage. It is complete enough that this weekend it housed my long-awaited three-day garage sale. In great style. Roy, that lucky bugger, was registered for a conference in Edmonton and was nowhere in sight. That meant I needed to put up all… Read more »

There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants for you than to wind up as leader of your next Athabasca University group project. 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 »

Dear Barb: I am in my twenties and just graduated from AU. I’ll be starting a full time job in July. I am so excited and anxious to get on with my life. My two-year-old daughter and I will be moving out of my parent’s home and into my own apartment soon. My mom always… Read more »

Album: we’ll Show You Where The Monsters Are Band: Fable Cry To follow the review that I had done on their singles from this album back in April, I am excited to review Fable Cry’s album we’ll Show You Where The Monsters Are. Full of the same goodness, fun, and eccentricity that we sampled in… Read more »

What student wouldn’t love to bask in the Navy SEAL mindset during exam time? If you don’t idealize parachuting out of planes into frigid, turbulent waters or sentencing yourself to Hell Week, at least you can take comfort that the Navy SEAL mindset also applies to everyday things, such as studies and work. What have… Read more »

Album: Currency of Man Artist: Melody Gardot “?Cause I believe in a world where we all belong, And I’m so tired o? seein? every good man gone.” – Melodie Gardot, “Preacher Man” The above quote is from a song that memorialises the brutal racist killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955. This is… Read more »