Getting back into the swing of things in the Winter term can be hard after a relaxing holiday break, but it’s even harder if you’ve resolved to be healthy this year. Around New Year’s, after a holiday season of sugary desserts and multiple course meals, a common resolution students make[Read More…]
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Healthy eating options around McGill campus
Navigating through the limited food options on and around campus in the hopes of finding something nutritious and budget-friendly can be tough. Here are some tips to make your search a little easier. Students spend a significant portion of their day on campus running between classes, studying in the library,[Read More…]
Ten-billion-year-old galaxy cluster discovered
This week, NASA announced the discovery of a galaxy cluster found billions of light years from Earth. The finding, published in The Astrophysical Journal, identified a unique property of the cluster, named SpARCS1049+56. It hosts what physicists call a wet merger, which is a unique type of galactic[Read More…]
Benfica crowned 2014/15 Champions of Portugal
This is some dummy copy. You’re not really supposed to read this dummy copy, it is just a place holder for people who need some type to visualize what the actual copy might look like if it were real content. If you want to read, I might suggest a good[Read More…]
Redmen blank opponents in Homecoming sweep
Homecoming Week celebrations were certainly in store for the McGill Redmen, as they trounced the Ottawa Gee-Gees on Friday with a final score of 6-0. The team followed up the win with a dominant victory over the UQTR Patriotes at McConnell Arena, posting a score of 3-0. Second-year kinesiology masters[Read More…]
Montreal-based firm unveils new crowdsourcing app
echoer.com Have you ever wondered what others around you in public spaces are thinking? Ever wanted to let fellow mall-goers know just how terrible you found a meal at the food court? A Montreal-based startup has just launched an innovative new mobile application which hopes to forever change the face[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…]
Tackling the health issues of the developing world
Written in an extraordinarily accessible and infectiously optimistic style, The Grandest Challenge: Taking Lifesaving Science from Lab to Village argues for the advancement of biotechnology, specifically genetic engineering, in order to solve the plethora of health issues that plague the developing world. Echoing the sentiments of recent years, Dr. Peter[Read More…]
DJ ascends to the throne of popular music
Dove Shore Electronic music has always maintained a modest yet comfortable position in mainstream music’s landscape, but the recent explosion of electronic’s various subgenres—particularly house, dubstep, and breakbeat—has turned what was once a novelty into music that is now viewed, alongside pop, as pure social necessity. To what (or whom)[Read More…]
Ghost Rider sequel crashes and burns in stunning 3D
filmbuffonline.com There are some films which one enters with such low expectations that, by the grace of Providence, the movie manages to just barely surpass them. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is one such case. Like a resuscitated drowning victim, the few elements of the film that worked coughed and[Read More…]
