Food for thought…on wheels
TORONTO (CUP) — The first mobile food market in Toronto was launched on Thursday, Oct. 31, with a grand unveiling in front of Balzac’s coffee shop on Gould Street. Click here to read the original article from The Eyeopener The Mobile Good Food Market, part of…
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HelpHub.me: the tutoring social network
HelpHub.me launched in February 2013, and Miguel Kudry says that the site is growing fast and keeping him busy—he is also attending classes full-time and working full-time. The website currently has over 750 users, and they recently launched a videoconferencing platform.
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Researcher has tips for sleep-deprived students
- Darcy Ropchan — The Gateway (University of Alberta)
- in Life
- Tagged with Darcy Ropchan, Edmonton, nap, napping, naps, shut-eye, sleep, sleeping, snooze, The Gateway, University of Alberta
“All kinds of studies show that students who stay up late trying to cram for exams do worse than students who just go to bed. When you sleep, your mind has time to process all the new information that came in during the day and if you don’t process it, it doesn’t get to go into your memory — it just drifts away.”
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Scar issue
Whether it’s the result of a fall you took while perfecting a difficult skateboard trick, a surgical procedure or an experiment in cooking gone terribly wrong, scars always have a story behind them — contributing to our own personal history and making us unique.
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Le changement politique en Italie, un comédien?
L’Italie est reconnue pour son intarissable culture tant dans le domaine des beaux-arts, de l’architecture, de la mode et de la cuisine. Malheureusement, elle se distingue aussi par son instabilité politique endémique. En effet, depuis 1943, reddition italienne lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le pays de Dante a connu quelque 71 gouvernements, soit une durée de vie moyenne de 360 jours par gouvernement. Du jamais vu dans l’histoire de la démocratie. Plusieurs raisons expliquent une telle anomalie.
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How to survive a horror movie: Six simple steps
HAMILTON (CUP) — Horror movies always seem to star stupid people. Regardless of age, location or occupation, every starlet seems to think it’s a great idea to find shelter in an abandoned basement, investigate the screaming sound coming from the attic, or adopt that one creepy…
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Un aller simple pour Mars
Alors que la NASA ne compte pas lancer de programmes de colonisation de Mars avant 2030, Mars One se positionne aujourd’hui en première place pour ce projet. Évidemment, ce sont les innombrables défis techniques qui en ont rebuté plus d’un, alors comment Mars One, société à but non lucratif, pourrait prétendre en triompher? La réponse est simple : il n’y aura pas de voyage retour pour les cosmonautes.
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Staying fat positive
Quetzala Carson is fat.
She has been her entire life. As a child, her mother would point out other fat women on the street and suggest that Carson lose weight. She grew up longboarding, riding bikes and playing in bands and says her size never had a huge impact on her. But the little things cut her in a way comments from family members couldn’t, as she remembers how she would wear bell-bottoms because they were the only pants that came in her size.
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Pillow Fight for your right
- Faye Alexander — Capilano Courier (Capilano University)
- in Arts, Features, Life
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NORTH VANCOUVER (CUP) — A shout of “Pillow Fight!” might conjure up images of frilly, panty-clad females, hair done up in pigtails, but the girls of the East Van Pillow Fight Club strip the cute factor for all-out ass-kickery. With an arsenal of feather pillows and…
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Le paradoxe des déesses violentées
En 2011, selon la fondation Thomson Reuteurs, l’Inde était le 4e pays le plus dangereux pour les femmes. L’an dernier, 244 270 crimes ont été commis contre des femmes, mais ce n’est que ceux qui ont été comptabilisés par le Bureau National des Crimes de l’Inde, car plusieurs femmes craignent les répercussions que peuvent entraîner leur témoignage à la police.
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