The brain then sends signals to eyes and muscles to help us move around and orient ourselves without falling over. But a new study by听Dr. Kathleen Cullen, who did her research at 香蕉视频 in Montreal, has found that these two channels transmit that information in very different ways. One is very slow and smooth, while the other is fast and precise.听
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Published on: 22 Nov 2016
"It was the end, or around, mating season听so we're not sure if that anything to do with it, or if they were just, 'see you later,听Canada, we're going to a better place,' or a different place 鈥斕齱e're not sure." Alysson听Menzies, researcher at McGill.听
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Published on: 21 Nov 2016
"We've faced elections, we've faced currency devaluations and earthquakes and wars. There's a lot of world events that can have an impact on the number of applications.听But admissions requirements stay the same."听Kim Bartlett, director of admissions.听
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Published on: 21 Nov 2016
Innovation is less about technology than it is about people and institutions. This is the good news for Canada in the wake of Donald Trump鈥檚 election. As the United States becomes less welcoming and tolerant, Canada can use the election outcome to escape the innovation morass into which it has fallen. History teaches us that building tolerant places where people and views collide and combine 鈥� backed by smart public policy 鈥� lies at the heart of innovation.
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Published on: 18 Nov 2016
鈥淎 lot of what the general public, decision- and policy-makers know about mentally ill persons in conflict with the law is through popular media portrayals. Whether it be the news, TV shows, or movies which are often sensationalistic. We know from research that individuals with mental illness are generally more likely to be victims of violence rather than perpetrators of violence.鈥� Dr. Anne Crocker, associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry听and researcher with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.听
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Published on: 17 Nov 2016
鈥淎 lot of people don鈥檛 know what linguists do, or even that we exist, apart from some idea that we just translate lots of languages.鈥�听Jessica Coon, associate professor of linguistics who consulted on the film.听
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Published on: 16 Nov 2016
Antonia Maioni, a political-science professor at 香蕉视频听who has written extensively about health care, said Wednesday that she and her colleagues recently conducted their own poll about Canadian and American attitudes on health care. It found that there is much more polarization in the U.S. than in Canada around the issue of public funding.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2016
Op-Ed by Andrew Potter,听director of the McGill听Institute for the Study of Canada.
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Published on: 14 Nov 2016
In dark times, it鈥檚 tempting to give up on politics. The philosopher Charles Taylor explains why we shouldn鈥檛.
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Published on: 14 Nov 2016
Catherine Potvin, a biology professor and climate change expert at 香蕉视频, said her biggest worry is that Trump will reverse many of the green initiatives launched under President Barack Obama, and that it will have a direct impact on Canada.听鈥淏ecause the Congress is largely Republican, I think it鈥檚 pretty bad news for the climate,鈥� she said.
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Published on: 11 Nov 2016
"So far, Mr. Trump, the political amateur and sputtering demagogue, has lacked Reagan鈥檚 magnanimity or his flexibility. Can the reality-show star turned president-elect mimic the actor turned president?"听Op-ed by Gil Troy, professor of history at 香蕉视频
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Published on: 10 Nov 2016
The issue of police surveillance of journalists will be debated Thursday night at the McGill Faculty Club by a panel of lawyers and editors.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2016
To get the science right, the producers of the highly anticipated upcoming movie Arrival hired Jessica Coon, a real life linguistics professor at 香蕉视频.
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Published on: 8 Nov 2016
鈥淭here鈥檚 this tremendous idealism with the Clintons 鈥� actually living social change, embodying social change,鈥� said Gil Troy, the author of 鈥淭he Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s鈥� and a history professor at 香蕉视频 in Montreal. 鈥淏ut also, at the end of day, not just having this will to power, but also being so convinced of their own self-righteousness that they improvise a new set of morality and ethics.鈥澨�
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Published on: 7 Nov 2016
"We've been lucky to have a lot of really good ball players, really good kids come through the program."听Head coach Jason Starr
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Published on: 7 Nov 2016
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