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ver The Edge Page 10

January 26, 1999

Denis

Liz, Caroline, Dogs, Max, Vadder, Bakoda

Emily Mackay

Jeff Clark

warp & STUFF

Chris Poschmann

Dave, Jimmy, Denis, Kevin, Chris, Greg, Bob, Andrew, Emily, Andrew, Jeff,

What is warp?

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
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.

Canadian

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 -

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, pay
attention! Meet 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://www.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!