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RADIO SHOW - Insects and Robots

Host: Noam Ash
Guest: Bob Lane
Airs: Monday at 11 pm

Insects and Robots is a moody, futuristic collage of music that clicks and beeps layered live on air with audio samples and spoken word; a scuttling, unpredictable...

Saturday, April 03, 2010 | full story …

Faith and faith

"Please excuse me if I use the "F" word often in this review. I realize that many people are afraid of that word and are disgusted by its frequent use in contemporary...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 | full story …

Review

Once You Go Back Review - Once You Go Back
A Novel
by Douglas A. Martin
Seven Stories Press, 2009
Review by Bob Lane, MA
Feb 26th 2010 (Volume 14, Issue 8)

Monday, March 01, 2010 | full story …

Mind/Brain

Review - The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind
by John S. Allen
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

Review...

Saturday, January 09, 2010 | full story …

The Brain - book review

Brain/mind identity
John S. Allen is Research Scientist, Dornsite Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Drawing on recent techniques...

Thursday, January 07, 2010 | full story …

Book review.

The New Atheism

Monday, November 16, 2009 | full story …

Provincial Siviculture Surveyor Examiner

Kathi Davis, half time technician, and sessional instructor in the Forest Resoruces Technology Program was chosen to be one of three Provincial Silviculture Survey  Accreditation examiners in British Columbia, last spring.  This is great news for the Forestry...

Thursday, October 29, 2009 | full story …

VIU Powell River Campus Hosts 8th Annual Campus Kickoff

Student Union President Patrick Barbosa presents a lucky student with a Ipod Nano at September

On Friday, September 18, the Powell River Campus of VIU was abuzz with activity as students gathered together for study skills sessions.  Over 100 students from...

Friday, September 25, 2009 | full story …

Culinary Arts Students Sizzle in Cook-Offs

Dawn McLean.  First printed in the Powell River Peak May 13, 2009 edition (permission given to use it here)

Imagine being given three hours to create a dish that must be presented to two judges with highly trained palates and not knowing...

Thursday, May 14, 2009 | full story …

VIU Hosts The Child and the Book 2009

May 1-3, 2009, the English Department and the Faculty of Education cohosted The Child and the Book 2009, an international conference for post-graduate students started at the University of...

Thursday, May 07, 2009 | full story …