Letters to the Editor
Quiet Pride The Autumn 2012 issue was one of your best yet. I particularly enjoyed the Q & A with U of T’s new chancellor, Michael Wilson (“Blue and White Pride”). Mr. Wilson served well as the...
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Star Power
Clockwise from top left: Donald Sutherland, Lorne Michaels and Norman Jewison Hart House Theatre has famously been the training ground, both onstage and backstage, for some of the country’s foremost...
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Enter Stage Left
On this Saturday morning in late September, the “Ladies Parlour Room” at St. Luke’s United Church in Toronto’s east end feels less like a space for genteel, tea-sipping women than the set of a Judd...
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Canada’s Next Tech Success?
LabInvasion Jacky Mak, Wen Ma and Daniel Huynh “What if your only means of transportation was a Ferrari?” asks Wen Ma. Over-powered, over-fancy,with all kinds of features you’ll never even get to use...
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The Technopreneurs
Daniel Huynh wants to learn the nuts and bolts of starting a business. He and his two partners, Wen Ma and Jacky Mak, are electrical engineers who would rather be entrepreneurs. They have what they...
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How Stars Die
Red Dwarf stars How do stars reach their end? The Big Balloon: When they finish burning the hydrogen in their core, average-sized stars such as our Sun start burning helium – which produces more...
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Zombies vs. Vampires
Zombies and vampires are lurking everywhere these days, from the Twilight series of movies to television’s True Blood and The Walking Dead to the book, and forthcoming movie, World War Z. But when...
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Deadly Pandemics through History
Medical advances in the past 100 years mean that many of these diseases no longer pose a risk to the vast majority of people living today. But new threats keep emerging… Bubonic Plague: 1339-51,...
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Evil Robots
Just last year, IBM’s “Watson” computer won TV game show Jeopardy. But could creating software that smart be a dangerous game? What if the United States’ defence computers, for example, suddenly...
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Welcome to the “Apopalypse”
The Smashing Pumpkins are counting the ticks in the “doomsday clock.” Duran Duran asks, “What you would do if you knew this was your last day on Earth?” Britney Spears will “keep on dancing till the...
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End Times
Read also Apocalypse How? Welcome to the “Apopalypse” Evil Robots Zombies vs. Vampires Deadly Pandemics in History When Stars Die Worries about the end of the world don’t often appear in the...
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Apocalypse How?
From war and disease to depleted resources and yes, even cosmic curveballs, U of T’s experts weigh in on our future: why killer asteroids are worse than killer robots, how peak oil links to nuclear...
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