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Beer

The Barbarian’s Beverage

Stephen Fields

More sophisticated beer enthusiasts may already know their favourite beverage was being made in places like Egypt and Mesopotamia as ... Read More

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Webcast for What Matters Now GTA

Click here to watch the live webcast of tonight's What Matters Now event. Read More

Lack of will power

Fit to be researched

Patchen Barss

"Fifty percent of people who start an exercise program will quit within six months." In this TEDx talk, Kathleen A. ... Read More

lego tree

Can wood replace plastic?

Paul Fraumeni

This article is being created using a keyboard that is made up mostly of the material that revolutionized manufacturing when ... Read More

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AQUA man: The rise of the six-limbed robot turtle

Noreen Fagan

It has six rotating flippers and can walk along a shoreline, swim in open water or dive deep into the ... Read More

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Can epileptic seizures be predicted and prevented?

Erin Vollick, University of Toronto

Q & A with Professor Berj L. Bardakjian In honour of Epilepsy Awareness Month, Erin Vollick sat down with a ... Read More

Experimental potato chips

Bet you can’t research just one

Patchen Barss

We’re standing in an unconventional laboratory in a campus research facility – the kind of place you’d never imagine ... Read More

market

Hungrier than we thought

Sabrina Hutchison

International policy is a hard thing to change. The norms and ideas that inform policy at the global level change ... Read More

Food desert

Urban “food deserts”

Alec Ross

Everyone eats food, some of us enjoy cooking, and careful consumers check food labels in the interests of healthier eating. ... Read More