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Sports fans may know that 鶹ýվ grad James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891; but less known is the fact that 鶹ýվ rugby also has a place in history for its significant contribution to the creation of what became American football.

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Published on: 3 Sep 2019

Have you ever met someone who just wasn't into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five percent of the population, found a study.

Using the fMRI data, the researchers found that while listening to music, specific musical anhedonics presented a reduction in the activity of the Nucleus Accumbens, a key subcortical structure of the reward network.

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Published on: 3 Sep 2019

 Two astronomers, {Evelyn Macdonald, recent physics graduate, and supervisor Nicolas Cowan, associate professor}, based at 鶹ýվ in Montreal, pored over data collected by the Canadian Space Agency’s SCISAT satellite, which was originally launched to help us better understand Earth’s ozone depletion. Since 2004, SCISAT has made continuous observation of the light that passes through the atmosphere when Earth is in front of the sun. 

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Published on: 3 Sep 2019

Neuroscientists and clinicians around the world are using machine learning to develop treatment plans for patients and to identify some of the key markers for mental health disorders before they may set in. One of the benefits is that machine learning helps clinicians predict who may be at risk of a particular disorder.

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Published on: 30 Aug 2019

Necessity is the mother of invention, the adage goes. And so when a Montreal mother of two couldn’t find an alternative she considered suitable for her daughters once she stopped breastfeeding, she decided to develop her own: an organic plant-based milk called Bebe Latte.

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Published on: 30 Aug 2019

“I wanted to meet a specialist of the sky, the stars and the night,” said six-year-old Zoey, who was introduced to astrophysicist and 鶹ýվ professor Victoria Kaspi at the Mont-Mégantic Observatory in Notre-Dame-des-Bois last week.

“When I was Zoey’s age, I knew very little about astronomy and had no idea one could have a career in this area,” Kaspi said in an email interview after spending the day with the Montreal student.

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Published on: 30 Aug 2019

Metro Vancouver has higher-than-average levels of opioids and methamphetamine in its waste-water system compared with other Canadian cities, according to a new Statistics Canada study analyzing cannabis and drug use in the country based on what Canadians flush down their toilets.

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Published on: 28 Aug 2019

For small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to maximize visibility on a budget, a regularly updated Instagram account with vibrant visuals and constant communicability is seen as a cost-effective way to reach eyeballs without the responsibility of managing a physical space. For certain businesses, especially new, tech-savvy ones, having a platform where one can handle most queries and transactions with minimal overhead begs the question as to whether it’s worth the trouble of ever having a brick and mortar shop.

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Published on: 27 Aug 2019

Samantha Reusch is aiming to help young Canadians identify misinformation online because she and her colleagues can't monitor all social media platforms for false information during this fall's campaign.

Reusch is the research manager at Apathy is Boring, a non-profit organization that encourages youth to engage in politics. She says misinformation on social media can be a barrier between young Canadians and political participation. Reusch said students don't learn enough about these issues in school, necessitating the awareness campaign.

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Published on: 26 Aug 2019

Roughly three-quarters of the world’s adult population has trouble digesting lactose, which is a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy products. Doctors routinely label people who experience these symptoms as “lactose intolerant” and counsel them to avoid dairy products. 

“If lactose maldigesters continue to consume lactose regularly, many can become tolerant,” agrees Andrew Szilagyi, a gastroenterologist and lactose intolerance researcher at Canada’s 鶹ýվ.

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Published on: 26 Aug 2019

The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal that decides land use matters in the province has set aside six days of hearings to consider the City of Toronto’s short-term rental regulations approved by city council more than a year ago.

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Published on: 26 Aug 2019

The research into these bones culminated in a paper published recently in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica: “Shark-cetacean trophic interactions during the late Pliocene in the Central Eastern Pacific (Panama).”

The authors determined that these bones belonged to a type of Balaenopterid, a genus of filter-feeding whales that includes today’s humpback and blue whales. Fin bones alone are not enough to determine the exact species or the size of the marine mammal, but these particular bones did offer tantalizing clues into the last moments of this animal.

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Published on: 23 Aug 2019

Dr. Patricia Hewlin, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management, studies organizational diversity and the organizational participation and treatment of minorities. As with so many How I Work subjects, her work has a personal resonance. Dr. Hewlin pursued her PhD in organizational behavior after encouragement from the PhD project, which aims to increase workplace diversity by increasing the diversity of business school faculty. We talked to her about her career path and the problems she’s trying to solve.

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Published on: 22 Aug 2019

Peter Enright, director of 鶹ýվ's farm management and technology program, said regardless of the specialization, there has been one major shift between the generations (...) -social networks that are completely transformed.

That’s why farmers "need to be constantly aware of the image of their industry, and they need to be ambassadors."

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Published on: 21 Aug 2019

Amidst scrutiny from racialized and marginalized groups, Fierté Montreal adopted a new mandate in 2019: to diversity and attempt to Indigenize their festival offerings as part of their bid to host World Pride in 2023. “One of the main priorities was to meet as many different cultural groups I could, and to get to know their needs, and get to know what I could do to help them and to do as many projects as possible this first year,” explained Félicia Tremblay, Fierté’s newly-appointed Director of Diversity and Community Relations.

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Published on: 21 Aug 2019

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