By Amanda Hu
As summer comes to a close, there is a sense of depression hanging over everyone. Though the time of festivals and outdoor shows is a thing of the past, there are still exciting things on the horizon to keep the music tooth satiated. The RAMP series wraps things up at its second anniversary bash at… Continue reading Getting your fill of fall music
Since the discovery of the G-spot, women everywhere have been trying to uncover the truth behind this mysterious and astonishing little body part. The Grafenberg spot was named after its official discoverer, gynecologist Ernst Grafenberg in 1944. If you pick up a book on tantric sex, however, you find that practitioners have been playing with… Continue reading The sexiness of spots
In 1927, before anything like post-feminism or the notion of sex-positivity became vogue in academic circles, the seed that would become lipstick feminism was planted in German expressionist cinema. One of the most memorable scenes in the 1927 film Metropolis is when, after the virginal Maria’s appearance is copied onto a robot clone, the doppelganger… Continue reading The rise of raunch
In the ’60s and ’70s, women in the liberation movement were fighting to change how females were viewed in the world. At the time, abortion was still illegal, men could rape their wives without penalty and the Pill was seen as central to women’s sexual liberation. This was a key era in history for both… Continue reading Take the empower back
As the student population preps to get wildly–though with luck not criminally–drunk on Bermuda Shorts Day, a similar situation presents itself as a new private health clinic in Calgary aims to be lucrative, not illegal. The Copeman Healthcare Centre is set to open its doors in Calgary this coming fall. The clinic will cater to… Continue reading The quest to be lucrative–not illegal
In the interest of solving some of the riddles that physics has struggled with for a long time, a group of scientists in Switzerland is getting ready to experiment with colliding particles. There is much anticipation this experiment could provide the scientific community with a great deal of knowledge they can’t otherwise acquire. Some fear,… Continue reading Of big bangs and expensive lawyers
Food is not the only thing that one can swallow to get fat. In a society reeling from both rampant depression and obesity, the news that the medicines used to treat the former can exacerbate the latter is cruel comedy. Tucked to the side of the front page on the Mon., Mar. 31 edition of… Continue reading The heavy cost of happiness
Almost like the time I told my teacher that I was late for class because the police ticketed me for riding my bicycle at 100 kilometres per hour, Hillary Clinton landed in hot water this week when she was called out on a statement. The only difference is that Clinton is running for the Democratic… Continue reading Media need to focus on policy, not mud-slinging
The technology that promises to open up a new Internet broadband pipe worldwide-dubbed TV white space-has become a hot topic of debate in the United States, pitting computer and Internet technology industries against television broadcasters and manufacturers of wireless audio systems.Specifically, white space refers to the unlicensed portion of the radio spectrum between television channels.… Continue reading TV airwaves: the way of the future
Sadly, the fevered rumours of violence in India are not just the fantasies of malarial dreams. They are the all-too-real reports resulting from a rapidly-industrializing state’s struggles with development and the desperately impoverished that are being left out. Maharshtra is the most economically viable state in India. Home to Mumbai (Bombay), it is also rapidly… Continue reading Violence on the sub-continent