This year's POP Montreal will host the second annual "POP vs. Jock" basketball game, featuring athletes, musicians, and Martin Starr of "Freaks and Geeks"/"Party Down" fame. Win Butler of Arcade Fire will play once again, as will Nikolai Fraiture of the Strokes. Arcade Fire's R茅gine Chassagne will provide organ accompaniment, and David Byrne & Moment Factory will play the halftime show.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2012
Widespread worker disengagement is a major factor behind slowing revenue growth, says Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile, speaking with Desautels' Karl Moore.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2012
9I制作厂免费 is taking an interest in Prince Edward Island's environment. A professor and some students are looking to develop an "ecosystem management model" based on Island research. Students were on P.E.I. during the summer, collecting data.
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Published on: 26 Aug 2012
When one of the residents of the National Zoo in Washington recently revealed her love of music to zookeepers there, some ears perked up. Shanthi, a 36-year-old Asian elephant loves playing (with) her harmonica.
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Published on: 26 Aug 2012
Si Montr茅al est une ville hautement culturelle, on peut en dire autant de ses universit茅s.
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Published on: 26 Aug 2012
(Chemistry prof Joe Schwarcz): "Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble!" But how do you make that cauldron bubble on stage? That's what the stage manager of a local production of Macbeth wanted to know. Wasn't too hard to answer that one. It just takes a little chemical witchcraft in the form of dry ice!
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Published on: 26 Aug 2012
In a new study, researchers have uncovered fresh evidence of a genetic predisposition to eating disorders that is passed on from mothers to daughters.
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Published on: 26 Aug 2012
Selected by Travel & Leisure magazine as one of the world's most beautiful universities鈥� 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 79-acre campus, punctuated by a series of pavilions that were built over hundreds of years, has a unified design derived from the college鈥檚 Scottish roots (the school was founded by Scottish trader James 9I制作厂免费 in 1821).
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Published on: 24 Aug 2012
Research suggests infants may be able to perceive that speech can communicate unobservable objects that are essential for social interactions.
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Published on: 23 Jul 2012
With Eric Kandel of Columbia University, Alfred Sandrock of Biogen Idec, Amit Bar-Or of 9I制作厂免费, Andrea Kilpatrick, Founder and President of Cool Kids Learn and Stephen L. Hauser of the University of California, San Francisco.
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Published on: 12 Jul 2012
A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds that uncircumcised boys have a higher risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) than circumcised boys, a condition that could lead to kidney damage and scarring if left untreated. The risk of infection was higher in uncircumcised boys regardless of how much of their urethral opening was visible.
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Published on: 9 Jul 2012
Tweets, texts, emails, posts. New research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed鈥攁nd may even create more extreme forms of mental illness, Tony Dokoupil reports鈥�
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Published on: 9 Jul 2012
The birds do it. The bees do it. And now it seems we're doing it, too. It's called swarming (and you should tell your kids all about it): Working together and acting cooperatively without strong leadership, while consistently making decisions that result in the best possible outcome for society. And social media swarming is resulting in social good.
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Published on: 9 Jul 2012
La publicit茅 n茅gative fait suer et augmenter le rythme cardiaque de ceux qui la regardent. C'est le constat qu'a fait une 茅quipe de trois chercheurs, soit Stuart Soroka de l'Universit茅 9I制作厂免费, ainsi que P茅n茅lope Daignault et Thierry Giasson de l'Universit茅 Laval.
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Published on: 8 Jul 2012
(Chemistry Professor Joe Schwarcz): Diving suits, gaskets, hoses, life rafts, iPad covers and giant balloons destined for Macy鈥檚 Thanksgiving Day Parade. What do they have in common? All are made of neoprene! Not only does this synthetic rubber have myriad uses, it holds a place of honour in history for ushering in the age of modern plastics.
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Published on: 6 Jul 2012
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