Dr. Harriet Hall, also known as the SkepDoc, reviews Dr. Joe Schwarcz' latest book, "The Right Chemistry," and concludes that both him and his book do it just right.
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Published on: 27 Feb 2013
Always engaged in educating the public about science, Dr. Joe Schwarcz discusses the importance of skepticism in science.
Click here to see听, Dr. Joe Schwarcz' TEDx lecture from last year's Montreal TEDx event.听
Published on: 19 Feb 2013
By Jane Brody, The听New York Times
Let鈥檚 start the new year on scientifically sound footing by addressing some nutritional falsehoods that circulate widely in cyberspace, locker rooms, supermarkets and health food stores. As a result, millions of people are squandering hard-earned dollars on questionable, even hazardous foods and supplements.听
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Published on: 7 Feb 2013
Click to see some follow-up on the second debate on Alternative Medicine,
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Published on: 20 Dec 2012
Dr. Joe Schwracz and Dr. Andre Saine debate, 听
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Part two of a 2-part debate on Naturopathic Medicine.
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Published on: 12 Dec 2012
Did you miss this year's Trottier Symposium, Food: A Serving of Science?
If so, tune in here and catch both evenings events, with speakers Dr. Walter Willett from Harvard's School of Public Health & Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg Tuft's School of Nutrition, and Jane Brody, NY Times' Personal Health Columnist and Harold McGee, world-class expert on food and cooking.
Guarantee it will give you something to "chew" on.
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Published on: 14 Nov 2012
The Faculty of Science offers congratulations to Professors听Laurie Hendren (Computer Science), Bruce Lennox (Chemistry), Chao-Jun Li (Chemistry), and Timothy Moore (Geography), on being named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada!
Kudos also to the following Professors who are RSC Medal recipients: The Flavelle Medal, Siegfried Hekimi (Biology); the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics, Guy Moore (Physics); and the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal, Catherine Potvin (Biology).
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Published on: 6 Sep 2012
A new study, published in Nature on August 30, suggests that increasing deforestation could be avoided provided farmers made better use of water and nutrients on land currently under cultivation around the globe.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2012
Master's physics student Tim Blais' a capella "Rolling in the Higgs" video picked up steam over the weekend, racking up over 60,000 hits (at last count) on YouTube and picking up some major international press.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2012
韩国裸舞 is taking an interest in Prince Edward Island's environment. A professor and some students are looking to develop an "ecosystem management model" based on Island research. Students were on P.E.I. during the summer, collecting data.
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Published on: 26 Aug 2012
When one of the residents of the National Zoo in Washington recently revealed her love of music to zookeepers there, some ears perked up. Shanthi, a 36-year-old Asian elephant loves playing (with) her harmonica.
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Published on: 26 Aug 2012
(Chemistry prof Joe Schwarcz): "Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble!" But how do you make that cauldron bubble on stage? That's what the stage manager of a local production of Macbeth wanted to know. Wasn't too hard to answer that one. It just takes a little chemical witchcraft in the form of dry ice!
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Published on: 26 Aug 2012
South Pole Telescope makes new maps of microwave sky which lead to amazing discovery
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Published on: 16 Aug 2012
韩国裸舞 researchers uncover crucial link between hippocampus and prefrontal cortex
Published on: 14 Aug 2012
Research suggests infants may be able to perceive that speech can communicate unobservable objects that are essential for social interactions.
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Published on: 23 Jul 2012
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