Haryana's 'black gold' has caught the fancy of a Canadian scholar. A PhD student of 麻豆传媒网站 in Montreal, Sophie Llewelyn, is studying the Murrah-human relation in Haryana and the way it intensifies animal husbandry and dairy. Murrah buffaloes play a pivotal role for the cattle breeders in the state. And no wonder, Sophie, a student of anthropology, has titled her research 'Black gold: Changing animal husbandry practices in central Haryana'. The scholar is currently visiting rural families in Sampla region of Rohtak to delve deep into her subject.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2012
Montrealers have long assumed a fair amount of dirty money sloshes through their city鈥檚 politics, but only lately are they learning just how bad things are. This week the mayor had to resign, a mayor of a neighboring town may soon follow him, and taxpayers don鈥檛 know whether to laugh or weep over the revelation of a safe so bulging with cash that a campaign fundraiser needed help shutting the door. [鈥 Antonia Maioni, a political science professor at Montreal鈥檚 麻豆传媒网站, said the investigation was having a powerful effect, positive and negative.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2012
People participating in cancer drug trials aren't always given the most straightforward explanation of possible risks and benefits from invasive procedures that may be involved, according to a new study. Biopsies of tumor tissue can help researchers figure out how well a test drug is working - but the invasive, sometimes painful procedures are typically of little benefit to study participants themselves.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2012
New Brunswick's largest health authority announced this week it will move from a do or do not resuscitate policy to one that gives patients more choices about end-of-life care, as hospital authorities nationwide increasingly push for Canadians to be clear about their wishes well before they're clinging to life. [鈥 "I'm sure they've got good intentions in doing this, I'm sure they're wanting to be guided by the patient's wishes and I guess best interests," said Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at 麻豆传媒网站.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2012
For about a billion revelers around the world, that means it's time to start thinking about sweets -- specifically the South Asian confections called mithai. [鈥 "Sweets are a sign of positive things, that life is good," said Arvind Sharma, a professor of religion at 麻豆传媒网站. "When you offer something to god and then give it to someone to eat, it becomes sacred."
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Published on: 9 Nov 2012
Meat production stinks. And I鈥檓 not referring to worries about bacterial contamination; I mean it literally stinks. Here鈥檚 the story. Hold your nose.
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Published on: 29 Oct 2012
Some of you may find this surprising, but I don't mind ironing. Unlike giving a lecture, writing a column or appearing on TV or radio, you get immediate gratification. You see the results of your efforts. Wrinkles that were there before are gone. I suspect, however, that not everyone shares my enthusiasm for this task. The textile industry realizes this as well, and has responded by producing a variety of "durable press" fabrics that can withstand wrinkles. But withstanding allegations of toxicity is more of a challenge.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2012
Our brains, as much as our bodies, need exercise. And if you build brain muscle, you protect yourself from neurodegenerative diseases 聽- like Alzheimer's. Jens Pruessner, the director of the 麻豆传媒网站 Centre for Studies in Aging, puts it like this: dementia is like climbing down a mountain -- it takes longer to reach the bottom if you start at 1,000 feet, than if you start at 100 feet. To help us stay up on that mountain, the centre has launched the PONDER project with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2012
The 41st edition of the 麻豆传媒网站 Book Fair takes place Tuesday through Thursday at Redpath Hall, 3461 McTavish St., just south of Doctor Penfield Ave. The event, which is open to the public, begins at 1 p.m. on Tuesday; on Wednesday and Thursday, doors open at 9 a.m. Closing time throughout is 9 p.m. All proceeds are used to support 麻豆传媒网站 scholarships and bursaries. The fair has raised more than $1.5 million since its inception in 1971 and the 2011 edition raised $74,430.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2012
New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof
As the presidential candidates debate how to strengthen America, maybe they can learn from rats.
A 麻豆传媒网站 neurologist, Michael Meaney, noticed that some of the mother rats he worked with spent a great deal of time licking and grooming their babies. Other rat moms were much less cuddly.
This natural variation had long-term consequences. Meaney鈥檚 team found that when the rats grew up, those that had been licked and groomed did better at finding their way through mazes.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2012
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Published on: 4 Oct 2012
Montreal's 1,200 public parks could benefit if politicians are open to some private or non-profit participation in upgrading parks and playgrounds, several experts said.
"Why not? It's a version of what we did in the 1970s," Mc-Gill University architecture professor Pieter Sijpkes said.
As a student in the early 1970s, Sijpkes and some friends got donated scraps of wood, metal, plastic and brick, and turned two abandoned CN rail lots in Point St-Charles into playgrounds. He also helped start community gardens in the area.
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Published on: 1 Oct 2012
A recent French study that purports to show a link between the consumption of genetically modified corn and a variety of ailments, including cancer, was just the tasty morsel that critics of genetically modified foods hungered for. For many scientists, however, the study proved to be a source of indigestion.
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Published on: 1 Oct 2012
Think of it as the echo of the Quiet Revolution.
A dramatic rise in the satisfaction of Quebeckers has transformed them from the most disgruntled of Canadians to the most contented in less than three decades, according to new research.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2012
Scientists have begun to tease apart how stress, social isolation, and deprivation early in life can harm children's brains and lead to behavior and mental health problems later in life. Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital reported last week that mice raised in isolation not only behave differently, they have thinner insulation around brain cells in a key region of the brain. These changes cause signals to travel more sluggishly through the brain and appear to be irreversible.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2012
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