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Passing the smell test
Erin O'Callaghan • January 22, 2009
Romantic love skews heterosexual females’ ability to sniff out potential partners, McGill postdoc’s study finds Read More
All hopped up: The wide world of deps
Joseph Watts • January 22, 2009
Depanneurs are peculiar stages for the drama of life. If you’ve been in one, you’ve been in 20, but everyone has a favourite. There is a cozy familiarity one has with the dep closest to their apartment. Maybe the old man behind the counter smiles when you come in, but… Read More
Friends with food: How to make breakfast for champions
admin • January 15, 2009
What: The frittata (tatata). How much:$2.59 for a carton of large eggs, plus whatever fillings you want. Why: Because the most important meal of the day should last all day. It’s the beginning of a new semester and a new year, so start the day off right with breakfast! Omlettes… Read More
Gutteral mind: Guys and dolls
Julie Alsop • January 15, 2009
A look at men’s intimate sexual relations with their dolls Read More
Study finds racial inequalities in cancer screening
admin • January 15, 2009
Gay and bisexual African-American men are least likely to be screened for colorectal and prostate cancer Read More
Gutteral mind: The canonization of porn
Julie Alsop • December 1, 2008
Making the case for sex as artistic expression Read More
All hopped up: Home sweet homebrew
Joseph Watts • December 1, 2008
Ever been intrigued by the thought of brewing your own beer, but turned off by the “science” or intimidated by foreign words like sparge and flocculate? Well, you needn’t be. Brewing in your kitchen is actually pretty easy. I like to compare it to making a big pot of soup,… Read More
“Three cups of coffee a day can make your breasts shrink” – but not quite
Nadja Popovich • December 1, 2008
Decoding a new study which links coffee, breast size, and breast cancer Read More
Friends with food: How to bake outside the box
admin • November 20, 2008
What: The gift that keeps on giving, ‘til it’s gobbled up of course – our Out-of-the-box Cake. How much: $5-10 (if you have none of the ingredients) Why: Because performing surgery on a box-cake is the best option. The 1950s produced many terrible things: suburbia, McCarthyism, gross canned-fruit jello moulds,… Read More
Student-parent like me
admin • November 20, 2008
Kelly Symons navigates the road from career woman, to single student mother Read More
In search of Montreal’s greener side
Nadja Popovich • November 20, 2008
It is generally accepted that higher incomes are associated with better health outcomes; as far as mortality goes, it isn’t hard to make the connection between being able to pay for better services and living longer. But a new study has found that discrepancies in health outcomes related to income… Read More
In the eye of the beholder?
Erin O'Callaghan • November 20, 2008
Beyond the aesthetic consequences of ugliness Read More
All hopped up: A winter wonderland of beer
Joseph Watts • November 13, 2008
As wool socks and long johns are awakened from their summer hibernation and seeing your breath becomes as familiar to the eye as 4:30 p.m. sunsets, an annual question is once again raised: How the hell will I keep warm this winter? But keeping your body toasty is a no-brainer… Read More
Moustache revival
admin • November 13, 2008
November takes on a hairy challenge, for a good cause of course Read More
Overlapping epidemics ignored: Zulu
admin • November 13, 2008
Winstone Zulu is one of the world’s leading HIV/AIDS activists. A native of Zambia, Zulu was diagnosed with HIV in 1990. After a period of denial about the existence of HIV, he became the first Zambian to publicly acknowledge his HIV-positive status. Zulu has lost four siblings to tuberculosis (TB),… Read More