The bag. We all carry one, be it a backpack, side bag, purse or a rolling suitcase nerdmobile for your books. We all have notebooks, textbooks and laptops, and we all need to somehow efficiently lug all this shit from class to class. The question is, what to lug it in?

When Aron Ralston had to amputate his own right arm to free himself from an 800-pound boulder pinning him to a cliff wall, he thought his outdoor adventures would have to end. Soon, however, the company Hanger Orthotics and Prosthetics was able to fit Ralston with a prosthetic that could support his body weight while hanging or swinging from ledges. An attachment on the end of the arm is an adapted ice ax that he uses for mountaineering and ice climbing.

Four weeks ago, Brian Fisher was flying in a helicopter high over the jungles of Madagascar. Fisher, an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences and Ph.D. graduate of UC Davis, is working to take pictures of all ant species on Earth. There are about 14,000 described species of ants, so Fisher’s got a huge task ahead of him.

A new, ubiquitous and simple-to-use technology in the field of microfluidics – scientific experimentation dealing with small and precise amounts of liquids – may soon be available to researchers thanks to the work of UC Davis scientists.

Here’s a scenario: it’s finals week and you’re in a jam. You desperately need to go grocery shopping, but you’re up to your ears in studying, it’s raining and you don’t have a car. Gosh, you think, I really wish someone could go shopping for me. I could definitely return the favor someday…

Watches, wallets, digital cameras and a diamond ring all remain unclaimed at the UC Davis Police Department’s Lost and Found.

What’s the relationship like between ASUCD and UC Davis administrators?

Although I find myself surrounded by “hella fresh Baydestrians,” I hail from the land of, like, surfers and, like, dudes and, like, totally living in traffic on freeways like the 5 and the 405 and PCH. Yes, I am from the water-stealing, star-studded Southern California. Forgive me.

In the land before Colgate, teeth got grody. Neanderthals died with their last meals lodged between their molars. Today, scientists are using those preserved food bits to analyze the diet and foraging behavior of our prehistoric cousins.

Senior nutrition science major Molly McDermott remembers the first time she observed the disparities of wealth in the United States. As a young girl, she and her family went on a trip to Chicago where she saw a Ritz Carlton hotel across the street from the projects.

It’s that time of year. The time when you hit the gym, burn those calories, shed that weight and drop all those bad habits that have been haunting you.

2011 has already brought with it some changes, perhaps the least important of which is my controversial move to page 3. Aside from that, economists seem to think we’ve \