Max Hill
A short history of the 3D printer
May 5, 2014Guys, the future is here. And it prints houses. Okay, okay, some context. Like many of you, I reacted to the first mention of 3D printers, or additive manufacturers, with confusion and bewilderment. After all, my main concept of what a printer is comes from the bulky behemoths in the SFU library — how could anything like that ever print something in three dimensions? Turns out they aren’t really that similar to your average 2D printer. They’re really industrial robots that build 3D models from virtual prototypes through an additive process, where the machine builds layer upon layer in a…
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SFU: The Drinking Game
April 7, 2014Download the pdf version of the SFU Drinking Game here.
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Album reviews: Cloud Nothings and Mac DeMarco
April 7, 2014Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Why are you sitting here, reading this review, when you could be listening to Here and Nowhere Else, Cloud Nothings’ outstanding second release as a full band? I praised and praised the group’s…
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SFU vs. UBC
April 7, 2014You’ve all heard the jokes about UBC and SFU. I know you have — they’re written all over every bathroom stall in the school. Here’s my personal favourite: “What do SFU and UBC undergrads have in common? They both applied…
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Vaccinate your kids, period
March 31, 2014One of the most popular articles The Peak has ever published is a witty Opinions piece colourfully titled “I hate Jenny McCarthy.” The article, written by former editor Graham Templeton and published in 2009, took the eponymous talk show host…
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Manufactured Landscapes
March 17, 2014Do you ever think about where your cell phone will go once you throw it away? What about who made it, or who mined the materials to put it together? Edward Burtynsky’s photography boldly searches for the answers behind these…
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Debatable Tweets
March 14, 2014Hot Topic for the presidential candidates Q:What is your position on the 10 per cent annual increase in international student fees? Alexander: So we want to charge kids who don’t come from here more money. I’m not exactly against…
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How my anxiety made me a better person
March 10, 2014A little over two years ago, I had my first panic attack. In retrospect, it was a pretty normal night — I was in bed with my (now ex) girlfriend, watching Parks and Recreation and eating junk food. This was…
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Woohoo, boohoo
March 10, 2014Woohoo: Jimmy Fallon Now, I’ve given Fallon his fair share of flack over the years. As Tracy Morgan once famously complained, he pretty much ruined every SNL sketch he was in by laughing uncontrollably at every joke. The only difference…
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Why fuck is one of the best words in the English language
March 3, 2014You’ve probably said it today — I know I have. Most of you will have used it as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, and conjunction by the end of the week. Some of you will use it to describe…
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