Category Archives: Society
Space police
A group of skywatchers set their sights on secret space missions—including a U.S. Air Force project An orbiting weapons platform, a spy plane, or a decade-old, billion-dollar money pit. The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space planes are a cloak-and-dagger project, … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Maclean's, Print, Science/Environment, Society
‘Keep out of my fridge’
An Ottawa man is fighting for the right to slaughter and process meat for his friends Four squad cars squealed into Mark Tijssen’s yard with their lights blazing, just after dark on a cold November night last year. Tijssen, who … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, National, Print, Society
A league of their own
In Seoul, StarCraft is a sport with pro athletes, and big salaries. And now the rules of play are about to change. Heavy metal music booms and strobe lights flash on a sleek, multi-level black stage as the standing-room-only audience … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, Journalism, Print, Society
FanExpo: freaks, nerds and corporate takeover
Are bigger comic cons better? Veterans Stan Lee and Lloyd Kaufman tackle the issue. The cramped and kind-of-smelly halls are packed with blue-haired anime nuts carrying six-foot cardboard swords, gangly Chinese Checkers experts with an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars, … Continue reading
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Never say die
The world’s oceans are being infested with a specific species of jellyfish—one that can potentially live forever. “We’re facing a worldwide silent invasion,” says Maria Pia Miglietta, a biology researcher at Pennsylvania State University. What makes this particular creature—the Turritopsis … Continue reading
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