My grandmother turns one hundred years old today. Every time I visit her I ask her about what it was like to grow up on the frontier in Saskatchewan in the first half of the twentieth century. That was a long time ago. My favourite story, one I’ll never forget and one I think of [...]
Starting today at 11am ET, researchers at UC San Diego will begin slicing up a human brain into about 2,400 slices each thinner than a human hair. The project will be carried out in one continuous session and you have front row seats. The entire 30-hour event can be viewed via a live video feed [...]
Meet Jamie Couper. If there’s one thing I could say about this guy it’s that he’s dedicated. Dedicated to highballing Pilsner intake under the waning harvest moons of Manitoba skies and clearly dedicated to fighting prostate cancer. This moustache is so delicately perfect I almost wonder whether he consciously pushed it out of his face [...]
“Hi Montreal! It’s beautiful to be here, in digital form. This is our first time visiting another country as a band, we hope you will listen with warm welcome. That’s Ryan from the band Candy Claw saluting the Montreal internauts during the band’s Montreal “stop” of their virtual tour. They’ve searched out local blogs to [...]
A couple interesting talks coming up if you’re in Montreal this week: On Thursday you can choose between the Earth and the sky with either Dr. Andrew Hendry and Humans, Evolution and the Future of Biodiversity at 6pm or Dr. Janna Levin and the Sounds of a black hole at 6:45. In case you’re looking [...]
15-time Grammy Award winning producer Phil Ramone will speak this afternoon at McGill. Ramone’s resume includes a number (huge understatement) of noteworthy accomplihttp://www.radarlake.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=20shments incuding producing Getz/Gilberto which contains the most famous version of the Girl From Ipanema and producing Billy Joel’s 52nd Street, the first album to be released on CD (it also went on [...]
