It sure is a colorful life. I recall vividly a scary episode almost forty-five years ago when my wife came running to me brandishing our infant daughter's diaper in her hands. It looked pretty...
Every year, I鈥檓 an invited lecturer at the University of Ottawa to talk to future science communicators about pseudoscience. I use a number of increasingly muddied examples to show these students...
鈥淭ake a few steps just to make the Devil mad! Hallelujah! That鈥檚 it, just move around a little bit, there she goes!鈥� Those were the words used by televangelist and soon-to-be-exposed-as-a-fraud...
In April of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a documentary film premiered on YouTube and its title could not have been more relevant: Stressed.
Coffee first appeared in Canadian cups about two hundred years ago, some three hundred years after people in Africa and the Middle East were regularly consuming the beverage. The most popular...
Should you let your genes decide what you eat? The field of nutrigenomics certainly leans in that direction. Frustratingly, there are two sides to nutrigenomics. On the one hand, it is a research...
For many students, picking up a coffee from the dining hall before pulling a late nighter at the library is all too familiar. I will admit, I鈥檓 an energy drink fiend. My friends have commented on...
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