Over The Edge Page 10 warp & STUFF

January 12, 1998

A trombone on a lonely Friday night

Richard Phillips wants to play with the PGSO and finds that the alcove across from the bookstore is
a good place to practice. photo by Aaron Mahoney

Research” Development Opportunity

The Science Council of British Columbia invests in opportunity.
We've been instrumental in helping many successful BC high
technology companies and students reach their goals. Our
investments. in post-secondary research & development come
in many forms. Listed below are a few opportunities you may
want to take advantage of.

GREAT Scholarships are designed for win-win results! This
program allows a graduate student in science or engineering
to partner with a BC company to carry out their thesis
research. Up to $20,000 is available per project. Application
deadline is January 29, 1999.

Technology BC iS yehensive research and
rogr ugh the Collaborative

3 to 100% of an
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program designed to hei
and invest in their res

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What is warp?

Students

warp is a new column in Over The Edge
where sites of educational or research value
will be posted. If your just looking for that new
resource to touch up a paper before handing it
in, or you just can’t live without the ‘net, warp

is your read!

Have a site for us to consider? Pass it along

to berap000@unbc.ca.

Great Canadian
Scientists
http://www.science.ca/
It's a fact: Canada’s sci-
entists have won the
Nobel Prize 8 times in the
past 15 years. Read up
on more than 150 of
Canada’s most promi-
nent

scientists, then ask one
of them your science
questions.

How Canadians Govern
Themselves

http://canada.gc.ca/how-
goc/forsey/forsey_e.htm
A helpful resource who
needs to know the ins
and outs of the Canadian
government, written by
historian Eugene Forsey.

The University Of
Victoria’s Hypertext
Writer’s Guide
http://webserver.maclab.
comp.uvic.ca/writers-
guide/welcome.html

Is your participle dan-
gling? Tips and advice on
how to write an awesome
essay, Crafting a perfect
sentence, working

| around the horrors of

grammar, and even a
handy list of common lit-
erary terms. Perfect for
the English Major!

The Hamlet Home Page
http://www. hamlet.edmo
nton.ab.ca/

Drama queens unite! Cut
through the fardels and
bodkins with this online
guide to Shakespeare’s
most famous play.
Critiques, articles, and li
ttle known facts accom-
pany the play’s complete
text.

Defacto

http://www-

~ attention!

nais.ccm.emr.ca/defac-
to/Home.html

What's the coldest city in
Canada? The longest
river? The tallest moun-
tain? The biggest island?
All the facts are here in
easy-to-follow __ tables,
plus

a whole lot of facts on
Canada’s share of the
earth.

Mathmania
http://csr.uvic.ca/~mma-
nia/

So, you think you know
your math, eh? Then put
your grey matter to the
test with these brain-
teasers. Includes _tutori-
als and articles on
graphs,

knots, and networks.

Heritage Minutes
http://www.nmarcom.co
m/heritage/minutes/minu
telist.htm

History students,
Meet

pay
Jean
Nicollet, Joseph

Casavant,

Jennie

Trout, Emily Murphy and
Joe Shuster — just a few
of the famous people
featured on the Heritage
Foundation’s site.

Electric Library
http:/Awww.elibrary.com
Research made easy
with immediate and
unlimited access to hun-
dreds of full-text maga-
zines and newspapers,
plus newswires, books,
transcripts

and thousands of pic-
tures and maps! You'll
wonder how you ever did
homework

without it!