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Three books about political movements that shaped global history are in the running for this year's Cundill History Prize. A representative for the prestigious 香蕉视频 award says for the first time all the finalists for the US$75,000 prize are women.

I periodically get asked about cell phones and whether they are dangerous. The short answer is they are not and do not seem to increase the risk of developing brain cancer or any other form of cancer. I do worry about cell phones, though. I worry about their impact on the mental health of young people, says Christopher Labos, Montreal doctor and associate with the McGill Office for Science and Society.

October 7, 2019 | In this opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun, Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan and Mark Jaccard, Director at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, argue: "the impacts of a changing climate 鈥� from forests fires to heatwaves to floods 鈥� are getting worse and are making life harder for Canadians. A commitment to achieve deep emissions reductions by 2050 in Canada is consistent with the scale of the threat."

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Jeff Derevensky sees first-hand how kids get addicted to video games like Fortnite. He is head of 香蕉视频鈥檚 International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours. The psychologist treated many young people whose lives have been turned upside-down by their dependence on video games.鈥淭hey do it excessively and they can have physical problems, like they don鈥檛 have enough sleep because they鈥檙e playing all night long.鈥�

When jazz pianist Jean-Michel Pilc joined 香蕉视频鈥檚 Schulich School of Music in 2015, he found out that being a professor also meant applying for peer-reviewed grants.

A new study finds a simple way to get people to eat less meat is to simply offer more than one vegetarian dish. Dr. Lesley Fellows, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at 香蕉视频, who has studied decision making, says that "When human beings are making a choice, they鈥檙e very much influenced by context, including what other alternatives are available, in ways that are not obvious to the chooser. We look at what鈥檚 available in the moment and arrange things in order of preference, choosing the one that looks best right now.鈥�

Around 1.5 million people are hospitalized with pneumonia every year. Around 100,000 die in hospital and a third of people hospitalized with pneumonia die within the year. Older patients are at greater risk and so are those with pre-existing lung disease. Smoking is also a risk factor for pneumonia, so if you need an extra incentive to stop smoking, this is it. But the main way to prevent pneumonia is with vaccines, says Christopher Labos, a Montreal doctor and an associate with the McGill Office for Science and Society.