While we’re self isolating it can be pretty easy for all the days to start to blend together. After all, not only are your own trips curtailed, but those subconcious cues, the noise of the traffic outside, the procession of people walking by the house, those have all been disrupted as well. People are coming… Read more »
Q: What do you call a fish without an eye? (Pause, wait for tension to build.) A: A fssshhh! That joke would have elicited more eye rolls had it been pronounced aloud, am I right? Words are the barter of banter, but they form different landscapes depending on their mode of expression. Our learning at… Read more »
Summer Dennis & Rhymes is the name of the duo made up of singer Summer Dennis and musician Bill Moore. The two write their songs together, and Moore’s lush, multi-genre tracks are the perfect accompaniment to Dennis’s rich expressions of affairs of the heart. The classically trained Summer Dennis is a beautiful, curvaceous young woman… Read more »
I took a mental health day for myself last week and paid a visit to the art gallery. I arrived there just as it opened, and it was a day of inclement weather. Perhaps for that reason, I was the only visitor for well over an hour. Freezing rain and high winds were hurling themselves… Read more »
Beginning on January 6, 2020, as part of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded national research project, Athabasca University will be conducting migrant worker-related field research in and around Calgary. As a federal research-funding agency, the SSHRC “promotes and supports postsecondary-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences.” Coordinated by Jason… Read more »
Canadian students can have difficulty navigating today’s educational systems. Globalization has rapidly increased in recent years, resulting in a faster paced society; one driven by consumption, relentless productivity, and a hunger for external validation. There is pressure for students to excel in school, obtain high-paying careers, take care of their families, and accumulate wealth. But… Read more »
“I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.” – Bill Joy “The best lack all conviction,… Read more »
I’m a little bit nervous for this issue. Darjeeling Jones’ latest article, “Is it Wrong that I am a Satan Worshipper”, is sure to raise some eyebrows based on the title alone. Controversial articles are always a bit concerning to me because I know the AU student audience is a bit different from the standard… Read more »
