Category: science
Oh Thursday, you are a long, long day for me. In addition to my usual 1.5 hrs of commuting and 8 hours at my regular job, Thursdays this semester involve 3 hrs of night class ((an aside: some of my students told me tonight in class that they’d found my blog. So, if you are […]
A friend of mine and I are putting together a little science-related blog ((because, you know, I clearly don’t spend enough time blogging as it is)) and I have a question ((a little unscientific survey, if you will)) for one of the blog postings I’m going to write over there. Where do you get your […]
Like last year, I’m teaching a fourth year Food, Nutrition & Health course in which the students engage in formal debates as a way of learning about food science and nutrition topics. So, like last year, I’m putting this question out to the blogosphere: I’m looking for topics in the area of nutrition that would […]
Occupational health decided that today would be a good day to stab me repeatedly. Four times, to be precise Now, I *know* that I had the MMR back in high school, because a girl in my class came down with measles and we all had to be vaccinated. But since I couldn’t provide proof (I […]
… just like cancer or heart disease and it should be treated as such. So says the British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA), who are calling on the provincial government to recognize that addiction is a chronic disease and that it should be funded as such, as reported in a Vancouver Sun cover story today. After […]
In addition to a dating site for finding someone to have an affair with (which, apparently, is actually just a front for a prostitution site), you can also use science to find your perfect match: My favourite part of the site is this: Only $995 for a lifetime membership. Why would you need a lifetime […]
So, yesterday I went to that talk by Dr. El-So-hottie1 that I mentioned the other day. His research in in the area of nutrigenomics – the field that applies genomics (i.e., studying the genome (i.e., all the genes in an individual)) to nutrients. What I really like about his lecture was that he talks about […]
So, I’ve talked a lot about Hockey Hotties, but did you know that professions other than hockey player count hotties within their ranks as well? Case in point: Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy, a scientist from the University of Toronto. He studies nutrigenomics. I saw him give a talk about his research at a symposium recently. Super […]
I just read over on Derek’s blog that today is Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. Derek wrote a really great posting about Darwin’s work – as well as the nature of the scientific enterprise. You should totally read it. In related news, in honour of the 150th anniversary of On The Origin of Species as well […]
OK, I’m going to stop talking about Taylor Pyatt (at least for a little while) and start talking, instead, about one of my other favourite topics: science. Specifically, about how: Canada is failing science In the recent federal budget, the Tories* surprised the scientific community by not including Genome Canada, a major player in funding […]