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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
Dec 16, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17723223
Dec 16, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17723223
Scientific Integrity: Fueling Innovation, Building Public Trust
Dec 17, 2010
John P. Holdren
The White House blog
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/12/17/scientific-integrity-fueling-innovation-building-public-trust
John P. Holdren
The White House blog
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/12/17/scientific-integrity-fueling-innovation-building-public-trust
Has innovation hit a brick wall?
Dec 26, 2010
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/has-innovation-hit-a-brick-wall/article1849830/
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/has-innovation-hit-a-brick-wall/article1849830/
Professionals in High Demand
Dec 30, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/12/30/professionals-in-high-demand/
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/12/30/professionals-in-high-demand/
Governments embrace angel funding
Focus on quality, longer-lasting jobs that help local community
Dec 30, 2010
Karen Mazurkewich
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Governments+embrace+angel+funding/4040115/story.html
Dec 30, 2010
Karen Mazurkewich
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Governments+embrace+angel+funding/4040115/story.html
Liberals blast Tories over MS treatment
Jan 4, 2011
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Liberals+blast+Tories+over+treatment/4059984/story.html
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Liberals+blast+Tories+over+treatment/4059984/story.html
Canada's MS patients are owed an explanation
Jan 4, 2011
Ujjal Dosanjh And Kirsty Duncan
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Canada+patients+owed+explanation/4055209/story.html
Ujjal Dosanjh And Kirsty Duncan
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Canada+patients+owed+explanation/4055209/story.html
X-Cars
George Parker and his Future Vehicle Technologies (FVT) team from Maple Ridge, BC have become one of the top contenders in the international competition to build a mass-market car that can get more than 100 mpg with a range of at least 200 km
Jan 2011
Dreamfilm Productions
http://dreamfilm.ca/film/x-cars/
Jan 2011
Dreamfilm Productions
http://dreamfilm.ca/film/x-cars/
New survey uncovers insights into Ontario tobacco use
Canadian Cancer Society launches sixth annual Driven to Quit Challenge
Jan 4, 2011
Canadian Cancer Society
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/04/c8056.html
Jan 4, 2011
Canadian Cancer Society
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/04/c8056.html
Canada to ease physical-fitness guidelines
Jan 4, 2011
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/canada-to-ease-physical-fitness-guidelines/article1857880/
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/canada-to-ease-physical-fitness-guidelines/article1857880/
Blackbirds die in Louisiana
500 dead birds found days after thousands die in Arkansas
Jan 4, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/04/blackbirds-beebe-fireworks.html
Jan 4, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/04/blackbirds-beebe-fireworks.html
China able to reprocess nuclear fuel
Potential boost of carbon-free electricity for booming economy
Jan 3, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/china-nuclear-fuel.html
Jan 3, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/china-nuclear-fuel.html
'Double whammy' warms Nunavut
Lack of sea ice adds to 'feedback cycle' bringing rain to Arctic in January
Jan 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/arctic-sea-ice-climate.html
Jan 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/arctic-sea-ice-climate.html
Space Agency, DND seek to launch rockets for Canada
Country has capability to send satellites to orbit: spokeswoman
Jan 3, 2010
David Pugliese
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Space+Agency+seek+launch+rockets+Canada/4050540/story.html
Jan 3, 2010
David Pugliese
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Space+Agency+seek+launch+rockets+Canada/4050540/story.html
Blackbird deaths in Arkansas investigated
Jan 3, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/red-winged-balckbirds-beebe.html
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/red-winged-balckbirds-beebe.html
Census squabble far from over
Former StatsCan boss insists long-form count will be back after 2011 results prove weak
Jan 2, 2011
MICHELLE MCQUIGGE
The Canadian Press
http://thechronicleherald.ca/TheNovaScotian/1219863.html
Jan 2, 2011
MICHELLE MCQUIGGE
The Canadian Press
http://thechronicleherald.ca/TheNovaScotian/1219863.html
Review: The silver lining of climate change
Jan 2, 2011
Richard Sherbaniuk
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Review+silver+lining+climate+change/4049557/story.html
Richard Sherbaniuk
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Review+silver+lining+climate+change/4049557/story.html
A call to discovery
The Royal Canadian Geographic Society has a new president -- author, journalist and adventurer John Geiger who grew up in St. Albert
Jan 2, 2011
David Staples
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/call+discovery/4048915/story.html
Jan 2, 2011
David Staples
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/call+discovery/4048915/story.html
Canadians tackle bad eating habits
Investigation shows gap between perception, reality
Jan 2, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/12/31/con-live-right-now-portions.html
Jan 2, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/12/31/con-live-right-now-portions.html
And now the weather: nasty and brutish
Dec 31, 2010
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/and-now-the-weather-nasty-and-brutish/article1853702/
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/and-now-the-weather-nasty-and-brutish/article1853702/
Electric car sales slow to start
Dec 31, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/31/con-electric-cars.html
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/31/con-electric-cars.html
Year in Ideas: Ignoring the evidence
Dec 30, 2010
Scott Stinson
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Year+Ideas+Ignoring+evidence/4043005/story.html
Scott Stinson
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Year+Ideas+Ignoring+evidence/4043005/story.html
New tobacco warnings bigger, more graphic
Tobacco companies to get transition period once legislation passes
Dec 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/30/health-tobacco-warnings.html
Dec 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/30/health-tobacco-warnings.html
Gulf beaches oil cleanup nears end
Tarballs from BP spill could be washing up for years to come, chemist says
Dec 30, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/30/gulf-beach-cleanup-nears-end.html
Dec 30, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/30/gulf-beach-cleanup-nears-end.html
China cuts 'rare earth' quota 11%
Asian power supplies 97% of world supply
Dec 29, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/28/china-rare-earths.html
Dec 29, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/28/china-rare-earths.html
Human evolution: The old man of the mountain returns
More evidence for a previously unknown species of human
Dec 29, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17797276
Dec 29, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17797276
Healthy Bodies And Healthy Minds For Ontario Kids
McGuinty Government Helps Serve Over 68 Million Nutritious School Meals
Dec 29, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services
http://news.ontario.ca/mcys/en/2010/12/healthy-bodies-and-healthy-minds-for-ontario-kids.html
Dec 29, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services
http://news.ontario.ca/mcys/en/2010/12/healthy-bodies-and-healthy-minds-for-ontario-kids.html
Electric cars: Tesla's jitters
Despite its share-price dip, Tesla's prospects still look promising
Dec 28, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/teslas_electric_jitters
Dec 28, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/teslas_electric_jitters
Tarsands pollution: Ottawa tries to ‘up its game’
A scientific panel declared the government had failed miserably in its duty to regulate tarsands extraction
Dec 27, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/911796--tarsands-pollution-ottawa-tries-to-up-its-game
Dec 27, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/911796--tarsands-pollution-ottawa-tries-to-up-its-game
Teeth may be oldest evidence of human remains
Dec 27, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/27/teeth-origins-human.html
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/27/teeth-origins-human.html
Hybrid locomotives: The Prius principle
What worked for cars can work for trains: railway engines will soon be hybrid
Dec 27, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17791989
Dec 27, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17791989
More College And University Spaces For Students
McGuinty Government Making It Easier For Students To Get A High Quality Education
Dec 27, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
http://news.ontario.ca/tcu/en/2010/12/more-college-and-university-spaces-for-students.html
Dec 27, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
http://news.ontario.ca/tcu/en/2010/12/more-college-and-university-spaces-for-students.html
Oil sands firms look at outsourcing
Dec 26, 2010
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-sands-firms-look-at-outsourcing/article1849899/
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-sands-firms-look-at-outsourcing/article1849899/
Indian rocket explodes after liftoff
2nd failed space launch in a year
Dec 25, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/25/india-rocket-explodes.html
Dec 25, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/25/india-rocket-explodes.html