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Want to Research Something? This Is How You Get Money for It

9 May 2025

Have you ever seen Black Hawk helicopters fly above the ĢƵ campus? Me neither. Yet, there is a persistent conspiracy theory that might as well invoke their presence.

The Sex Lives of Insects

7 May 2025

Sex is always a hot topic. Sex in insects is even more intriguing. Most people’s first reaction when they think of insects, is disgust. After all, insects are (most of them anyway) ugly, strange,...

Stem Cells for Pets: Why So Little Progress?

2 May 2025

Maxine is doing it. Tiny Timon is doing it too. Nash is about to start and Sushi the pug is now “pain-free and thriving.” At a certain age, seemingly every dog on Instagram starts embracing stem...

A Taste for Jujubes

24 Apr 2025

To me, jujubes were always the little chewy things that I never let my kids eat. A mix of sugar, modified starch, modified palm oil, pectin, synthetic dyes, natural and artificial flavours. Not...

Chewing Gum Adds to Concerns About Microplastics

18 Apr 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

The Powder of Sympathy

9 Apr 2025

Four hundred years ago, Belgian physician Johann Baptist Van Helmont was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for promoting the use of the “Powder of Sympathy.” The idea had been originally...

Kier’s Four Tempers: Psychological Fact or Fiction?

28 Mar 2025

With the finale of the second season of Apple TV’s most popular show, Severance, being on everyone’s mind, here is a look into some of the (pseudo)science that inspired core concepts explored in...

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