March, 2015

Hip Hop Week Panel: Big Booty Hos

The parodic use of the title Big Booty Ho might repel the feminist, while drawing approval from the misogynist to Hip Hop Week’s panel on feminism and sexuality. The panel, however, turns the phrase on its head by studying the dynamic, ever changing role of women in hip hop culture,…

Up Close & Personal with CTZNSHP

Recently described by Noisey as a serious contender for the title of “most promising Montreal band ever”, it seems like CTZNSHP and its powerful brand of anthemic and heart-felt rock, driven by an unmistakable 80s pulse, is well on its way to becoming one of the city’s prized musical landmarks….

Style and Sexuality: furry Lids

Have you ever noticed that Minnie and Mickey are identical (sexual dimorphism in mice is nil, according to good old Walt) but for their eyelashes? Minnie has eyelashes; Mickey has none. But rigorous inquiry (me cataloging everyone’s eyelashes) has shown that men tend to have longer and thicker eyelashes than…

Your Brain on Brains

Imagine a criminal is on trial for committing a crime, and his lawyer testifies to said individual’s innocence on the basis that the fundamental forces driving the atoms of his existence are out his control. The client−the lawyer claims−is ultimately not morally responsible for the complex electrochemical processes that make…

University Cookbook

Blake’s Exam Slam-O-Rama JUNGLE JUICE This is a nifty recipe given to me in my first year by my friend in med school help get through exams easier! When you’ve been up for thirty-seven consecutive hours, sometimes you need something extra so you can get to your 9:15AM exam on…

The Food Waste Manifesto

Un-Package is a project by five Concordia University Graphite Design students unpacking consumers’ relationship to the waste produced by food packaging. Drawing from environmental activist literature for its platform, Un-Package advocates a more effective use of the prolific waste produced by food packaging. In the same way that Mother Nature uses waste to…

Recipe

Wash four young plums, teenaged ones, hard ones plucked before their time, and remove with clean twists the stems that may remain at their puckers. Trace a knife along their cleft smiles. Tell them they are loved, not just for their potential but really loved, icebox cold in canonical poetry,…

We are what we eat; but “WHAT” exactly do we eat?

The title to this article is based on a saying which is far from new. In fact the original version of this quote dates from the year 1826 and was coined by French lawyer, politician and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat in his work ”Physiology of taste, or meditations on transcendental…