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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Racism alive and kicking - why every ethnic group is capable of being racist |
| Published: July 21, 2007, 12:39 pm |
| Tags: Recruitment, Canadian Government, Racism, University Of Toronto, Siu, Evan Eid |
| studies graduate from the University of Toronto. Evon shot to unexpected (probably international) fame because a government employee responsible for managing a recruitment process (and his job application) referred to him as a 'ghetto dude'. The Toronto Star newspaper reports the story today. Here's a brief excerpt:'Evon Reid couldn't believe |
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| Study Shows Playing Video Games Improves Women's Spatial Skills |
| Published: October 3, 2007, 1:15 pm |
| Tags: Gamer Life, Games, Females, Spatial Awareness, Study, University Of Toronto, Women |
| your parents? A study at the University of Toronto has indicated that just a few hours of video game play can improve spatial awareness in females. The research, to be published in the October issue of Psychological Science, suggests that a new approach involving action video games can be used to improve spatial skills. Women have been proven to |
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| Longevity's Evil Twin: Inflation |
| Published: October 28, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Longevity S, Evil, Twin, Inflation, Moshe Milevsky, U S Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Evelyn Sims Mcneil, Ron Gebhardtsbauer, Toronto, American Academy Of Actuaries, U S Securities Exchange Commission, York University |
| First of all: Happy 94th birthday to my mother, Evelyn Sims McNeil. |
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| Intimate Rivalries: A Mixture of Pride and Envy |
| Published: March 3, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Intimate, Rivalries, Mixture, Pride, And, Envy, Abraham Tesser, John Trojanowski, Virginia Lee, Penelope Lockwood, Athens, Hillary Clinton, Center For Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University Of Georgia, University Of Pennsylvania, University Of Toronto, Washi |
| The young woman had done well in a recent exam, but was feeling awful because she had just found out that a close friend had done even better. When she confided in social psychologist Abraham Tesser, he immediately recognized that the woman was standing at the fault line of two emotions that each... |
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| Intimate Rivalries: A Mixture of Pride and Envy |
| Published: March 3, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Intimate, Rivalries, Mixture, Pride, And, Envy, Abraham Tesser, John Trojanowski, Virginia Lee, Penelope Lockwood, Athens, Hillary Clinton, Center For Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University Of Georgia, University Of Pennsylvania, University Of Toronto, Washi |
| The young woman had done well in a recent exam, but was feeling awful because she had just found out that a close friend had done even better. When she confided in social psychologist Abraham Tesser, he immediately recognized that the woman was standing at the fault line of two emotions that each... |
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| Open Letter By Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at York University |
| Published: March 24, 2008, 11:44 am |
| Tags: Canada, Toronto, York University |
| An Open Letter to the York community and activists worldwide, On March 13th 2008, after a successful anti-occupation demonstration was organized by Campus R.I.O.T in Vari Hall, the table for Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) was attacked by several Zionists in what is becoming a troubling trend of increasing violence and harassment |
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| Science and Religion say 'I do' |
| Published: May 20, 2008, 11:09 am |
| Tags: British Columbia, Exchange, Institute, North America, Toronto, University, Culture, Ecotheology, Environment, Flowing, Health, Opinion, Pledging, Pronounced, Religion, Robe, Sickness, Stands, Vows, World |
| OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorFinally after a long courtship, fraught with inconsistencies amongst themselves, with tears and heartbreak tearing everyone apart, has finally come to a resolve. ...read more |
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| Bee symposium broaches barcodes on bugs |
| Published: May 15, 2008, 5:14 pm |
| Tags: Europe, Kenya, North America, Toronto, University, York, Agriculture, Bar Coding, Barcode, Bees, Biology, Bumblebees, Buzz, Carpenter, Clovers, Conference, Database, Environment, Experts, Flowers, Pollinator, Species, Specimen |
| Bee experts are abuzz at York University this week, discussing a plan to put barcodes on bees for targeting crop pollination."International bee experts have converged on Toronto to develop a plan to catalogue all...read more |
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| Frog evolution debate resolved |
| Published: May 22, 2008, 1:28 pm |
| Tags: Anderson, Bones, Calgary, Fossil, Mississauga, Points, Toronto, University, Amphibian, Ancient, Ankle, Boasts, Built, Called, Canadian Led, Centimetres, Characters, Data, Debate, Distinct, Environment, Evolution, Evolved, Faculty, Features, Frog, Fused, Gerobatrachus, Jason, Journal |
| A fossil of an amphibian found in Texas in 1995 appears to have put an end to a lengthy debate about the evolution of frogs and salamanders."The fossilized creature, known as Gerobatrachus hottoni, proves that some...read more |
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| Thousands and a million spectators at Toronto Gay Pride |
| Published: June 30, 2008, 9:33 am |
| Tags: Tourism Boycott, Creepy Jamaica, Ctv, Mainstream, University Of Toronto, Toronto Gay Pride, Gay Pride |
| to join in the fun that's Toronto's gay pride party (and march) this last weekend. Great stuff, lots of stages with non-stop events, and security asking for my ID to check my age (trust me, when you are about to turn mid-40s you do appreciate that someone is kind enough to check whether you've reached maturity).Well, the march was ... long, |
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| Agios, Developer of Drugs That Starve Cancer Cells, Scarfs Up $33 Million in Venture Funds |
| Published: July 7, 2008, 1:07 pm |
| Tags: Boston, Boston Blog Main, National Blog Main, Biotech, Cancer, Life Sciences, Deals, Third Rock Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Arch Venture Partners, Nature, Kevin Starr, Harvard Medical School, University Of Toronto, University Of Pennsylvania, Newbury Street, Children |
| School, Tak Mak of the University of Toronto, and Craig Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania. The trio will keep their academic affiliations, yet remain “closely involved” with the company, Starr says. For now, Agios has just a few employees and consultants working from Third Rock’s Newbury Street offices in Boston. |
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