Communication Error: Trap doors

Are you afraid of spiders? It’s said that when one conversational door closes, another opens. What if lying behind the door of new opportunity is an eight-foot-tall, hairy trap-door spider ready to paralyze you, then spin you in its web for later consumption? All while it feeds on your friends? We’re told that networking, branching […]

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Campus Access: Richmond House woes

Most buildings on Camosun’s Lansdowne campus are decently accessible. However, due to the age of the campus, there are a few buildings that have not been modernized. One such building is the Richmond House. Not only is the building itself inaccessible, so are the services that are run within it, which include the Women’s Centre, […]

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The Periodic Column: Me, my interstitium, and I

I might be a little late to the science party, and maybe everyone else has already gotten over this discovery, but I sure haven’t. Back in March (ancient history, I know), scientists discovered a new maybe-organ, the interstitium. Researchers originally called this newly discovered tissue type an organ, but there has yet to be a […]

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Health with Tess: Exercise doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg

School is hard on our bodies, especially in November and December. We know we’re probably not getting as much exercise as we should, or even as much as we got in the summer. The cold weather is making it easier and easier to reach for the chocolate and fries (hopefully not at the same time), […]

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Let’s Talk?: Fuckboys 2.0

Last issue, I talked (or vented and gave our poor editor an extra grey hair or two) about my frustration with “fuckboys” and the role they play in today’s society. I think it’s important to acknowledge just that: they play a role. They are not the be-all-end-all of the dating pool, and as a society […]

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The Periodic Column: The action potential of the thalamus

How do our brains decide what to learn? As students, how can we force our brains to hold on to the facts from our classes that we need to remember for exams instead of random information from our favourite TV shows? Turns out, researchers at Harvard University were wondering that, too. In order to learn, […]

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Campus Access: Microwave concerns on campus

There are multiple options for food on campus. Well, there are multiple options for most people, that is. While some might argue that the campus cafeteria is perfectly accessible, that isn’t necessarily the case. It isn’t so much the layout of the cafeteria that’s the problem; it’s the volume of people in the space at […]

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Let’s Talk?: A cautionary tale

We have all known—or will come to know—at least one fuckboy over the course of our lives: the guy who makes our skin crawl whenever we have to interact with him; the one who has one too many dating apps, yet is eternally single; the one who wears just a little too much cologne, hair […]

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Tech Talk: Preparing for exams with apps

Preparing for exams can be overwhelming, especially when you have many things to memorize. Here are two apps that can help you to memorize everything for tests. Anki is a fully-featured index-card app that works across all the major platforms, including a paid version for iOS. How it works is just like real-life index cards—you […]

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