An Unravelling Global Order
The Venezuelan oil conflict and American interventionism
Carbonara pasta incapacitates 500 hackers and 8 washrooms at UofTHacks 13
On January 16, 2026, more than 500 students from over 30 academic institutions assembled in Toronto for the 13th iteration of UofTHacks, Canada’s first student-run ...
Fighting fire with no water
Recent events raise concerns of safety and transparency
Caucus concerns: accessibility, Ryerson’s portrait, and the Coburn Award
The Fall 2025 caucus meeting report
New faces in old places
“In the same way that the heart does not care which life it beats for, the city does not care who fulfils its various functions. …
The affliction of imitation
ἠχώ, ἠχώ, ἠχώ…
Superstition… ain’t the way?
Foolish daughter challenges the very wise Voltaire “Elle est la faiblesse du Genre-Humain, & telle sa perversité, qu’il vaut mieux sans doute pour lui d’être ...
What’s the deal with “what’s the deal”?
Upon picking a theme for this issue, the sitcom-lovers in the room won. I can’t say I’ve watched any Seinfeld, but that’s just fine—Jerry’s not ...
Reduce, reuse, rebirth
The only thing that stays consistent with our rebrands is our obsession with material consumption
The real deal*
*Concept subject to collapse in an ouroboros spacetime – but it’s not the end of the world
Fathering philosophy
The patriarchy of reason as we know it
Is chivalry unfeminist?
On the infantilisation of women in heterosexual constructs of romance
Cannibal capitalism
How does capitalism eat itself to death?
Review: VCDS’s Metamorphoses
How, through tragedy, Metamorphoses teaches its audience to love
Ross et al.
The fathers of The Strand
Simulacra and stimulation
It’s a two syllable word that is everywhere and nowhere at once. Taboo—easy to miss, yet glaringly obvious. But what does it mean today with ...
The ouroboros of nostalgia
The 2016 trend is everywhere on social media, but the discussion surrounding the year has a major oversight.
A lesson in obsession
The Vic Alumni Reading Series featuring Alex Pugsley
On modern art, or the need for the physical
A case for modern art as resistance to modernity
Why scrolling reels is exhausting
A cognitive-resource inspired take on the dopamine reward system for fast and complex media
The Ouroboros within: stem cells
The biology of self-sustaining systems
Four fun facts about snakes
Deep in the coal mines of La Guajira, Colombia, students unearthed a skeleton of epic proportions. The gigantic fossils were initially thought to belong to ...
Plasmids
The flexible backbone of molecular biology
HeLa cells
Medical advancement, ethical misstep, or both?
This is not a secret
I call it a mercy— my buried pretense, my unspoken lie, but a guilty conscience is a gunshot wound— it never really heals. It’s not …
Thirst drinking saltwater
It begins with the word, of the mouth that shaped it, the breath that cups it, and the body that makes it I was a ...
Oraphim
The sun bursts from displacement – Entropy begins. Allow it. Rings of rings of of rings of of rings of of eyes ablaze; ...
Do you hear that?
Our words reverberate,But I can’t remember what was said.Four years passed us by –Now as I walk past the same buildings,See the spots where we ...
I’m forced to do my chemistry lab for eternity
It’s Groundhog Day but with titrations
8 things to never ask your Amazon Echo
Because some things are better left unsaid
Echoes of The Strand
Some interesting historical forerunners to your favourite Strand sections
The joys of the echo chamber
Everyone agreeing with each other is fun, actually.