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Award-winning book about bees generates buzz
November 23, 2015SFU professor and renowned bee expert Mark Winston has just been awarded with the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction for his latest book, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive. Bee Time offers an insight into Winston’s work with bees over his lifetime, the issues that threaten bees in today’s world, and what we can learn from our buzzing insect friends about how we interact with nature and our own personal lives. Winston has been at SFU for 35 years. After running a bee laboratory at the university and teaching in the SFU Biology Department for several years, he became…
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SFU strikes business partnership with Chinese firm
November 23, 2015An international partnership took SFU President Andrew Petter and VP Research Joy Johnson to Beijing earlier this month. During the visit, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed between the university and Beijing-based Hanhai Zhiye Investment Management Group. The partnership is…
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Unveiling Canada’s Islamophobia
November 23, 2015[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s late Monday evening. Two white men, one with a beard and one without, stand a few persons ahead of me in a Starbucks line on campus. Eyes flashing, lips curled into smirks, hushed voices speaking through stifled laughter. “Dude,…
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HUMOUR: Ordinary life getting you down? Try living in colour
November 22, 2015Are you tired of being overwhelmed by the most basic of daily actions and activities? Constantly afraid that behind every closed cupboard door, a tower of disorganized Tupperware is just waiting to tumble out? Sick of being asked rhetorical questions…
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Helen Yan closes the curtain on a great career
November 16, 2015The SFU volleyball team is approaching the end of its season, which means that some players are facing the end of their time in the program. One such player is Helen Yan. When she first came on the team, it…
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SFU’s Danison Buan gives food for naught
November 16, 2015SFU student Danison Buan is working on a new initiative to make a big impact on hunger. “Life is so short that one has to do what you can now, and not wait [. . .] one person can make…
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Cinephilia: The Secret in Their Eyes proves remakes aren’t easy
November 16, 2015At their worst, remakes appeal to popular laziness and an unwillingness to read subtitles, submerge into foreign cultures, or watch older films with slower editing. Although it’s easy to blame Hollywood for this supposed sacrilege, the remake can be effective…
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HUMOUR: Dissecting the mannerisms of human texting behaviours
November 16, 2015Most people might not notice the hints about their personalities revealed through their texting habits; we have become such an antisocial culture that our texts now contain inflection. We can’t sit in a crowded room anymore and start a conversation…
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Course Diggers shows grade distribution of SFU courses
November 16, 2015Looking for an easy elective? Try HSCI 181. Course Diggers, a website designed by SFU students, says that 24.5 per cent of the grades for this class are in the ‘A’ range. Students rate the difficulty and workload as 1.0…
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Nobody can actually ‘quit’ social media
November 16, 2015Last week’s trending article on CBC featured Essena O’Neill, an Instagram celebrity and model who received widespread praise for her “revolutionary” decision to throw away her Instagram account and say no to the shallow world of social media. This is…
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