Jason Samson Earlier this month, McGill PhD candidate Jason Samson and a number of other researchers released the world’s first map of human vulnerability to climate change. Samson, who studies climate change ecology, originally conceived of the idea while studying species adaptation to climate change. With his team, he[Read More…]
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Profs say students seldom take advantage of office hours
Logan Smith Psychology professor Donald Taylor does his best to make students feel comfortable in his office. “I tell my students that if they want to come and see me, we don’t have to talk about a chapter in the book, but they have to say something nice about my[Read More…]
Cig funded McGill
mccord-museum.qc.ca ericsquire.com McGill was built with the help of a number of generous patrons. Perhaps one of the most interesting of these benefactors is Sir William Macdonald, a man who made his fortune in the tobacco industry. Macdonald grew up on a farm in rural Prince Edward Island, and donated[Read More…]
Bringing it all back home
McGill Tribune Even to Canucks themselves, Canadian politics can be a vague procession of events that occur in another dimension; somewhere between an ice rink on Jupiter and a Tim Hortons at the end of the universe sits our Parliament. There, people discuss the two topics urgent to the Canadian[Read More…]
James Franco: the patische kid
If given the opportunity to be James Franco for a day, would you take it? He’s creative, sensitive, prolific, and intellectual, but at the same time fashionably disaffected, hinting at a slightly tortured artistic soul. He makes risqué films that screen at Cannes and plans to direct William Faulkner and[Read More…]
Politics, porn, and provocative performance
Lisa Graves and Elizabeth Delage / Studio 303 Lisa Graves and Elizabeth Delage / Studio 303 This year’s Edgy Women Festival, a multinational, visual celebration of females and femininity, will showcase the work of a variety of different artists from Japan, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Taking place in[Read More…]
An alien take on the stoner comedy
heyuguys.co.uk Set primarily in the Western United States, Paul is the fish-out-of-water story of Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost), two nerdy British vacationers who embark on a road trip across the West. When they pull over in their RV on a long stretch of desert highway, they come[Read More…]
SORD: Sudden Onset Runner’s Diarrhea
az.milesplit.com Shin splints, stress fractures, and plantar fasciitis plague most distance runners at some point, but there’s one condition that nearly all endurance athletes face, one that makes roads unsafe and unsanitary for casual exercisers: sudden onset runner’s diarrhea. Some athletes don’t poop and tell, forever ashamed of their experiences[Read More…]
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
collider.com Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theatres, screaming teenagers have come back for the latest supernatural romance thriller. While Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood is innovative in that it’s a far cry from the bedtime story you remember from your childhood, the film[Read More…]
March Madness
EAST Preview: Ohio State is, as Kanye would say, a monster. The Buckeyes, led by freshman centre Jared Sullinger, should be able to drop step their way over and through the Big Dance. Combined with the outside shooting of Jon Diebler, OSU has the inside-outside combination that so many other[Read More…]