On Thursday, March 8, the McGill school of environment hosted a lecture by Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, a renowned forest ecologist and professor at the Evergreen State College in Washington. The event, which took place in New Residence Hall, was preceded by a round table with Nadkarni and students from the[Read More…]
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Bathroom break
After four long years of an abusive relationship with McGill campus public restrooms, it’s time for me to speak out about the frustration, the repulsion, and the anger they have caused me. Too many times have I entered the facilities on the ground floor of Redpath across from the fishbowl[Read More…]
Choosing salsa instead of studying
It was halfway through reading week, and I was driving to Trinidad, Cuba in a 1958 Chevrolet with two Italians, a driver from Havana, and my mother, when I realized I wasn’t actually going to get any reading done. My mother and the driver were in a heated conversation about[Read More…]
Title 66 Productions puts Satan on trial
Julia Milz / Title 66 Productions For many, good and evil are so straightforward. Truth is good, lies are bad; helping is good, hurting is bad. Easy. The History of the Devil takes the notion of black-and-white ethics and grinds it into the dirt. Its tale of sin and sympathy,[Read More…]
Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month both across the pond and south of the border, while International Women’s Day falls this Thursday worldwide. Canada’s own Women’s History Month is October, a month more frequently associated with essays and Halloween parties. And so, there’s no time like the present to remind[Read More…]
Online game gets real work done
phylo.cs.mcgill.ca Completing a multiple sequence alignment—a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity—is an age-old problem in genetics. To tackle this task, two bioinformaticians at the McGill Centre of Informatics have employed a somewhat unconventional method. They decided to make an online[Read More…]
Hidden fashion gems
This week, faced with the prospect of a ‘clothes swap’ a friend was organizing, I decided to confront my problem with clothes. You see, I have a shopping disorder. I behave in a sensible and frugal fashion until I feel suitably deprived, which usually takes a little under a week,[Read More…]
Misery loves company
Karla Stasiak For the single and broken-hearted, the days prior to Valentine’s Day are filled with annoyance, bitterness, and a dash of jealousy. While single students rebuff all things red and heart-shaped, making plans to burn their ex-lovers’ things, the couples of the world smile, frolic, and get to[Read More…]
Academy Awards 2012
Best Actor Who will win: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Before the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards, this category looked like a fight between Dujardin and George Clooney (The Descendants). Once the SAG went to the effervescent Frenchmen, the race appeared to be closing in on an early end. Neither[Read More…]
Three breakfast venues to keep your bellies full
annaisafoodie.blogspot.com In Montreal, we are spoiled with an eclectic mix of quality eateries. Considering the fact that the island of Montreal has slightly over 5,000 restaurants, combined with the shameful truth that, if my student budget allowed, I would gladly eat out for every meal, I have done my[Read More…]
