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Andrew Brennan
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Special IssueLife on Mars
Touching down on Mars. Date: Aug. 6, 2012. 12:25 a.m. EDT.
Right on time, at 12:32 a.m., came another tweet: “I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!!”
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Special IssueThe Science & Technology Issue
We’ve built the means to destroy both ourselves and our environment—but now how do we use these tools to fix these vitally human problems?
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NewsSaving Identities and our Sisters
Justice for indigenous women and deconstructing the myth of Thanksgiving themed the ninth annual Anti-Colonial Thanksgiving on Nov. 28 in downtown Montreal.
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Let’s Build a Warp Drive
We’re going to 1985, hitching a ride in a DeLorean with Marty McFly.
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Life’s a Hack
This week I feel that we need to talk about something more serious. The cover story of this month’s Wired magazine by senior staff writer Mat Hogan was a rather intense read—blunting at first, then numbing—laying out how his online footprint was shattered and rifled through in span of an hour.
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Young Galaxy
Scientists have set a new record this week, measuring the most distant galaxy from Earth. Now, at face value, this may seem little more than a rather cool statistic—but bear with me for a second.
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NewsFrigo Vert Has a Healthy New BoD
Le Frigo Vert has a new board of directors after a unanimous vote at its annual general meeting on Wednesday evening—and unlike years past, they were able to announce a surplus to work with.
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NewsCafé X Wants to Compost
After years of failed attempts to bring compost to Concordia’s Visual Arts complex, managers from the student-run Café X have started a petition to pressure the university to bring compost collection bins to the building.
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Singularity
At the dawn of our universe, all that is and ever will be was packed into a point smaller than an atom. Fast forward 13.7 billion years and one gram of DNA—still infinitely small, but thousands of times bigger—can house “200 times more data than every indexed website in 2003.
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Special IssueEducation Resources
Want free textbooks? A tuition-free online degree? This guide has your whole timetable covered—and most of the Dewey Decimal System, too.
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Fringe ArtsPsych-Pop Purveyors
As a band, Yeasayer doesn’t just want to come in, lay down their beats, “and then go off and get wasted.”
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NewsFlagged for Removal
In the lavish Salon Rouge of Quebec’s National Assembly, Pauline Marois and her incoming cabinet were sworn in on Sept. 19 as the new provincial government—with a certain leafy witness conspicuously absent from the occasion.
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NewsDisproportionate Senate
The lack of John Molson School of Business students sitting on Concordia’s Senate has sparked at least half a dozen students to email identical denouncements to both the chairperson and president of the Concordia Student Union over the weekend.
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Special IssueHuffin’ and Puffin’
In case you missed it, last week the American military reclassified Julian Assange and his whistleblowing organization Wikileaks as enemies of the United States. He’s being placed into the same box as al Qaeda terrorists and the Taliban.
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A Summit Subcommittee
Arts and science students have until this Wednesday evening to apply for a position on a subcommittee of the Arts and Science Federation of Associations.
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NewsASFA to Deliver Official Position on Education Summit
Like it or not, students will have their voices heard at the upcoming education summit.
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QPIRG To Reorient Students Towards Social Justice
Orientation week has ended, not with a bang but a downpour of rain. Given that, it would seem to be time for Concordia students to stop having fun and get serious about school.
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Fringe ArtsAmourous Feelings
Cinéma L’Amour, the iconic Montreal strip club, does not exactly conjure up images of a two-person indie band, but for Dorian Scheidt and Chris Kavanagh it was the perfect metaphor.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
John Coltrane once said you can play a shoestring if you are sincere. Logically, then, a band playing standard gear can be infectious—if they’ve got the heart.
