THE SWADDLE | Men and Women Remember Physical Pain Very Differently
After a physically painful experience, men’s memories can exaggerate the pain, which makes them more stressed about and sensitive to pain in the future, researchers at McGill University and the University of Toronto, Mississauga, have found. Women, on the other hand, handled pain like champs.
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CBC News | Signal from deep space is probably not aliens, just 'exotic physics': prof
The detection of a signal coming from deep space is definitely something to be excited about — but it's probably not aliens, warns one of the professors who helped build Canada's CHIME telescope.
PLOS Biology | Ethical Oversights in Ethical Oversight of Animal Research
Article by Jonathan Kimmelman, Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unity in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, and is a member of the PLOS Biology Editorial Board.
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CTV NEWS | App helps doctors measure, treat patients' wounds
Dr. Sheila Wang, a dermatologist at the McGill University Health Centre, came up with the idea for the app when she was in medical school and noticed that the standard practice was to measure wounds with rulers or other handheld instruments.
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C2C JOURNAL | How to Take Back the Charter
Conversations among Canadian conservatives often drift into grumbling about the courts. Their complaint is with the judiciary’s decades-long campaign to remake the country in its progressive image, a process that began soon after adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982.
NBC NEWS | Can't put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains — and lives
Veissiere and Carr are among researchers and public figures calling attention not just to the more widely discussed impacts of our phones — such as dinner disruptions and distracted drivers — but also to their subtler effects, which some fear could result in profound changes to our brains and to society.
THE TYEE | Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the System
Those recommendations were all included in Relationships Matter for Youth “Aging Out” of Care, a report from Melanie Doucet, a McGill University social work PhD student, and eight youth from care in B.C.
THE CONVERSATION | Is the next Standing Rock looming in northern B.C.?
Ground zero in the global battle against climate chaos this week is in Wet'suwet'en territory, northern British Columbia. As pipeline companies try to push their way onto unceded Indigenous territories, the conflict could become the next Standing Rock-style showdown over Indigenous rights and fossil fuel infrastructure.
By Leah Temper, Research Associate at McGill
THE NEW YORK TIMES | The Democrats' Best Response to Republican Power Grabs
Op-ed by Jacob Levy
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THE NEW YORK TIMES | Can we really inherit trauma?
…Investigators in the field say the critique is premature: the science is still young and feeling its way forward. Studies in mice, in particular, have been offered as evidence of such trauma-transmission, and as a model for studying the mechanisms. “The effects we’ve found have been small but remarkably consistent, and significant,” said Moshe Szyf, a professor of pharmacology at McGill University. “This is the way science works.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | The Right Chemistry: The dangers of 'organic solvent syndrome'
Column by Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science & Society. Read more
NBC NEWS | What is a black hole?
But black holes aren’t quite as menacing as they are commonly portrayed. “They definitely do not suck,” says Daryl Haggard, an astrophysicist at McGill University in Montreal. “A black hole just sits there, passively. Things can fall onto it, just as meteors can fall to Earth, but it doesn’t pull stuff in.”
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WASHINGTON POST | In Canada, you can study marijuana production for college credit
In January 2020, McGill University in Montreal will offer a graduate degree in cannabis production, open only to students with botany backgrounds or bachelor’s degrees in related fields.
UCS USA | Understanding Local Impacts to Inform Wildlife Conservation
Article by Christie Sampson, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Clemson University, and Charles C.Y. Xu, Ph.D. student in the Redpath Museum & Department of Biology at McGill University Read more
CTV NEWS | Dr. Lesley Fellows: How AIDS affects the Brain
Dr. Lesley Fellows from the Montreal Neurological Institute explains how the stigma of the disease can affect the brain. Watch here
