College Issue: Intro
Welcome to our annual College Issue, wherein we have a little fun exploring the diverse world of local higher education and hopefully introduce a new audience to our newspaper while we’re at it. Have fun clicking through the links, most of which you’ll find in the News section of the website. Savannah’s interesting in that…
Zombie research
Lead Story If society were ever attacked by zombies, we would probably be doomed, and quickly. That was the conclusion of two university researchers in Ottawa, Ontario, who set up mathematical models hypothesizing zombie attacks as infectious diseases with the well-known characteristics of zombie biology from popular fiction. In fact, according to a July BBC…
Can saunas and steam rooms kill you?
I love to go to the steam room (or if there isn’t one, the sauna) after a workout. But I’ve always wondered: Do they really help? Or rather: I sweat a lot in the steam room, and it’s obviously doing something to my body, but what exactly are its benefits? Or is it actually damaging…
