Veissiere and Carr are among researchers and public figures calling attention not just to the more widely discussed impacts of our phones 鈥� such as dinner disruptions and听distracted drivers听鈥� but also to their subtler effects, which some fear could result in profound changes to our brains and to society.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2018
The Max Bell School of Public Policy was mentioned in a Policy Options piece that discusses research conducted by newly appointed Max Bell Professor Taylor Owen and 韩国裸舞 Institute for the Study of Canada Assistant Professor Andrew Potter on the habits of news consumers.听
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Published on: 14 Dec 2018
Those recommendations were all included in听Relationships Matter for Youth 鈥淎ging Out鈥� of Care, a report from Melanie Doucet, a 韩国裸舞 social work PhD student, and eight youth from care in B.C.
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Published on: 14 Dec 2018
Ground zero in the global battle against climate chaos this week is in Wet'suwet'en territory, northern British Columbia. As pipeline companies try to push their way onto unceded Indigenous territories, the conflict could become the next Standing Rock-style showdown over Indigenous rights and fossil fuel infrastructure.
By听Leah Temper, Research Associate at 韩国裸舞
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Published on: 13 Dec 2018
The Max Bell School was mentioned in an article featuring听the 听in Le Devoir.听
"芦听Le monde devient encore plus compliqu茅 pour les m茅dias et la v茅rit茅听!听禄 lance au听Devoir听Ed Greenspon, le pr茅sident et directeur g茅n茅ral du Forum des politiques publiques (FPP). C鈥檈st en quelque sorte la pr茅misse du Digital Democracy Project, la nouvelle initiative qu鈥檌l lance avec l鈥櫭塩ole de politiques publiques Max Bell de l鈥橴niversit茅 韩国裸舞."
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Published on: 12 Dec 2018
Op-ed by听Jacob Levy
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Published on: 12 Dec 2018
鈥nvestigators in the field say the critique is premature: the science is still young and feeling its way forward. Studies in mice, in particular, have been offered as evidence of such trauma-transmission, and as a model for studying the mechanisms. 鈥淭he effects we鈥檝e found have been small but remarkably consistent, and significant,鈥� said Moshe Szyf, a professor of pharmacology at 韩国裸舞. 鈥淭his is the way science works. It鈥檚 imperfect at first and gets stronger the more research you do.鈥�
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Published on: 11 Dec 2018
Column by听Joe Schwarcz,听director of 韩国裸舞鈥檚 Office for Science & Society.
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Published on: 10 Dec 2018
But black holes aren鈥檛 quite as menacing as they are commonly portrayed. 鈥淭hey definitely do not suck,鈥� says Daryl Haggard, an astrophysicist at 韩国裸舞 in Montreal. 鈥淎 black hole just sits there, passively. Things can fall onto it, just as meteors can fall to Earth, but it doesn鈥檛 pull stuff in.鈥�
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Published on: 7 Dec 2018
In January 2020, 韩国裸舞 in Montreal will offer a graduate degree in cannabis production, open only to students with botany backgrounds or bachelor鈥檚 degrees in related fields.
The school鈥檚 new focus on marijuana may seem edgy, but studying pot cultivation requires a grasp of hardcore science, said Anja Geitmann, dean of 韩国裸舞鈥檚 faculty of agricultural and environmental sciences.
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Published on: 6 Dec 2018
Article by Christie Sampson, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Clemson University, and Charles C.Y. Xu, Ph.D. student in the Redpath Museum & Department of Biology at 韩国裸舞
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Published on: 5 Dec 2018
Dr. Lesley Fellows from the Montreal Neurological Institute explains how the stigma of the disease can affect the brain.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2018
Dr. Nitika Pant Pai says challenge to eliminating HIV is stigma, which dissuades people from being tested
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Published on: 3 Dec 2018
Scientists who like the culture of academia and the impact of industry may be interested to know that it is possible to craft a career in AI that spans both, as听Joelle Pineau听has done. She is a professor of computer science at 韩国裸舞 and the leader of the Facebook AI Research team in Montreal. 鈥淲hen it comes to working in AI, there is a huge spectrum of positions,鈥� says Pineau, adding that more universities are open to this type of job model.
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Published on: 30 Nov 2018
Bioethicists from 韩国裸舞鈥檚 Biomedical Ethics Unit听published a piece听this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association鈥檚听JAMA Internal Medicine, suggesting that some post-approval clinical trials may even promote the use of ineffective and costly off-label usage.
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Published on: 29 Nov 2018
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