Ever since humans first walked the earth, we have relied on plants for our survival. They provide us with food, shelter, medicine and even the oxygen we breathe. Now, a team of scientists is wondering w 1 they can protect us from climate change as well. Researchers at the Salk Institu...
I opened Second Life on my laptop, and walked my avatar into an empty virtual room. So far, so good, but Rita looks hesitant. Inside, my avatar reaches up and slowly starts lowering the ceiling down until it’s hovering just above his head. “That’s way too enclosed and claustrophobic...
(Sheriff Bell) came across a hawk dead in the road. He saw the feathers move in the wind. He pulled over and got out and walked back and squatted on his boot heels and looked at it. He raised one dead wing and let it fall again. Cold yellow eye dead to the blue vault above th...
When I left Uhomini, Festo was a small boy of 4. As I walked away from the village it struck me that while the rest of the world was changing quickly, the kerosene lamp in his house would remain. When I returned to visit his family a few years later, it was just as I had suspe...
As I walked to work, my growing knowledge of the depth of Irish settlement in Ottawa turned the town into a home. All around me in the capital region, there is Irish heritage and living Irish communities in the Valleys: Low and Venosta, Arnprior and Smiths Falls, Shawville (with a funct...
Perhaps I have always walked death’s road. After all, my corpse so easily reaches out ‘cross space and time to touch its siblings: to lay in the snow on a stark Russian mountainside (it was not your fault, Igor, you could not have known); ...
Shubhankar Jain walked away with the I Prize in the Creative Writing Contest for seniors and Dev Soni received a commendation certificate for Elocution. The students excelled in 'Clincher Campaign' – Protect, Preserve, Propagate – a social issue. They presented a mock campaign against society's...