It’s the start of a holiday weekend, and you’re chugging along in traffic. You’re in the left-most lane and see your exit coming up. You begin the tricky process of timing your lane change for when there’s available space while accounting for the cars in the next lane over, the car in front of you, […]
Last month marked the 45th International Women’s Day since its adoption by the United Nations (UN) in 1977. The theme for this year was “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow” and focused on “advancing gender equality in the context of the climate crisis.” The importance of advancing equality between genders is well known. Equally […]
“The new 5G network was created to spread the Coronavirus.” “Always drink alcohol and hot water to kill the virus in your throat.” The quotes above may or may not sound familiar, but they are examples of the numerous superstitious beliefs and myths peddled around during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lots of people […]
I like to call myself the potato bug hunter, and like anything else that requires accuracy and precision, my aim is only considered good if I hit the target. For many potato farmers in Canada, the Colorado potato beetle, otherwise commonly known as the potato bug, has been a persistent pest for potato farmers since […]
As a country bordered by three oceans, Canada is truly an oceans nation. In 1997, the Oceans Act was brought into force, making Canada the first country in the world to have comprehensive national ocean legislation. Since then, various area-based measures have been adopted in Canada to facilitate governance over marine and coastal spaces. Canada […]
The international community has embraced marine spatial planning (MSP) as a way to preserve the ecological integrity of marine environments while obtaining economic, cultural, and social benefits. MSP has quickly become the dominant marine management policy worldwide in the last 10 years. However, while MSP has a transformative capacity, the worldwide experience reveals large gaps […]
Words shape our decisions. Giving informed consent to participate in research is no exception. Certain metaphors make us more likely to want to participate and others drive us away. This is because of the associations attached to metaphors. For example, consider the research ‘guinea pig’. This metaphor was coined in 1913 by George Bernard Shaw, […]
This article was originally published on The Conversation Canada on February 23, 2022. It was authored by Jasmine Mah and Melissa K. Andrew, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University. The emergency department (ED) can be a stressful and confusing place for individuals who are sick or injured. During the pandemic, with many hospitals not permitting […]
This article was originally published on The Conversation Canada on March 1, 2022 Joe Rogan recently apologized for his repeated use of “the N-word” on his popular podcast after a video documenting his use of the racial slur was widely shared online. This is not the first time Rogan has been under fire for problematic podcast clips resurfacing. He […]
Although many people are worried about an artificial intelligence (AI) takeover, technology is not yet and likely quite distant from being able to entirely replace a human when it comes to doing certain tasks. Although we have developed algorithms that are able to do what seems like highly complex behavior, there is still a finite […]