Studies show that dance provides multiple cognitive and physical health benefits, suggesting it may be the kale of exercise. These results echo those of a 2008 Journal of Aging and Physical Activity ˛őłŮłÜ»ĺ˛âĚý˛ú˛â Patricia McKinley of Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in which seniors participated in a tango dance program. The report showed that long-term tango dancing was associated with better balance and gait in older adults. Since falls are the top cause of injury and death among elderly people, dancing can be a potent tool in extending one’s life.
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Published on: 30 Apr 2019
Last year, the federal government announced it would spend $27.5-million over five years on an ambitious plan to end tuberculosis (TB) across Inuit Nunangat, Inuit regions of Canada, by 2030.Â
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Published on: 29 Apr 2019
Some students at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ are taking the idea of “mind over matter” to a whole new level: they’ve developed a wheelchair that moves using your imagination.
Thirty five McGill students came together on their own time and designed “Milo” in just 30 days.
“Milo is a brain-controlled wheelchair that relies on imagined movement to turn. So when you imagine turning your right hand you can turn right and when you imagine turning your left hand you can turn left,” explained Danielle Nadin, who worked on data collection.
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Published on: 29 Apr 2019
Kevin Manaugh, a geography professor and member of Ď㽶ĘÓƵ’s School of Urban Planning, said it’s not easy to protect transportation infrastructure in Quebec, where frigid winters, high precipitation and the freeze/thaw cycle form a “unique set of circumstances that makes it harder to plan for things that will last for decades and centuries.”
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Published on: 26 Apr 2019
This year’s group includes: Matt Dobbs of Ď㽶ĘÓƵ for a project called “Unveiling the Cosmos with a New Paradigm Digital Radio Telescope”; Dennis Hall of University of Alberta for “A Green Chemistry Blueprint for Direct Catalytic Functionalization of Feedstock Alcohols”; Catherine Sulem of University of Toronto for “Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Wave Propagation in Fluids, Optics, and Plasmas”; Marten van Kerkwijk of University of Toronto for “Probing Extreme (Astro)Physics with Neutron Stars”; and Xiao Yu Wu of University of Toronto for “Smart Nanomed
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Published on: 26 Apr 2019
C3 has also partnered with Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, making lab and office space available to McGill researchers, who are expected to begin using the space in the fall.
Anja Geitmann, dean of McGill’s Agricultural and Environmental Sciences department, said the university has similar partnerships with other industry partners, but noted that as a business incubator with a variety of cannabis companies clustered within a single site, C3 is unique.
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Published on: 24 Apr 2019
When it comes to evaluating dietary supplements, the challenge is to find some clarity when looking through the haze of conflicting studies, sloppy research, over-zealous advertising and loose government regulations. Extracts of blueberry and its European cousin the bilberry, are a case in point.
Column by Joe Schwarcz, director of Ď㽶ĘÓƵ’s Office for Science & SocietyÂ
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Published on: 23 Apr 2019
Gail MacInnis, a PhD entomology candidate and research assistant at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, says that while the biggest threats in both urban and rural areas is habitat loss, urban beekeeping is an increasing threat to urban bee diversity. “You have to remember that honey bees live in colonies of up to 80,000 individual bees,” she says. “All these bees are competing for the same resources.
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Published on: 18 Apr 2019
The blaze, which destroyed the cathedral’s roof and spire, has triggered an outpouring of unity and financial support as well as a promise from French President Emmanuel Macron to rebuild within five years. When they do, they’ll have a wealth of information to rely on, said Martin Bressani, director of the Peter Fu School of Architecture at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ. “Notre Dame is obviously the greatest historical monument in France,” he said. “It’s completely documented, every square inch.”
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Published on: 17 Apr 2019
Jennifer Bartz, one of the authors of the study, said they analyzed implicit bias because it can influence behaviour in a way unbeknownst to us.
“The thing about explicit attitudes… is that they’re vulnerable to self-censorship; they’re vulnerable to defensive processes,” said Bartz. “If we want to present ourselves in a particular light, we can kind of modulate those attitudes.”
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Published on: 16 Apr 2019
"Over the long term, repeated, persistent [stress] responses will activate the immune system and contribute to inflammation," says Dr. Ernesto Schiffrin, a physician and professor of medicine at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ. He says inflammation can set the stage for atherosclerosis, also known as hardening of the arteries.
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Published on: 15 Apr 2019
“It seems like they are just as good at pushing material away—jets, winds, and outflows—as they are at collecting material,” says Daryl Haggard of Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, noting that scientists really have no clear idea about how black holes actually power jets.
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Published on: 11 Apr 2019
April 5, 2019 | With the federal carbon tax coming in to the four provinces in Canada, how will it affect small businesses? Is the carbon tax constitutional? Chris Ragan, economist and director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy debunks certain myths surrounding the federal carbon tax on Financial Post.
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
April 9, 2019 | The Canadian government is now considering to actively regulate social media platforms such as Facebook, given the lack of results from self-regulation. "We better get the democratic governance right if we have any hope of pushing back against the autocratic model," said Taylor Owen, an associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Montreal. "The challenge of (content moderation) is that it's the most difficult piece of this puzzle."
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
Even more importantly, the perception that the arc of history was bending in all the best ways proved to be unfounded. As Jacob Levy noted recently in Vox, there is no arc of history, not really: “There is moral improvement over some time spans, in some places: the fall of Jim Crow or of communism in Eastern Europe. But those aren’t the verdict of history or the historical revelation of moral truth, any more than the return of measles or of neo-Nazis represents the verdict of history.”
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
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