COVID-19 : traitements à vos risques et périls
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Policy and Politics
Science Policy, Intellectual Property, Funding, Government, Politicization of Science
Checking In with @waterkeepermark and Swim Drink Fish Ambassador Jennifer Baichwal
Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Jennifer Baichwal answers Mark’s questions. Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for 25 years, and her works have been played around the globe and won multiple awards. Her films include Anthropocene, Watermark, Let it Come Down, The True Meaning of Pictures, Act of God, Payback, and Manufactured Landscapes. She is a long time supporter and friend of Swim…
Checking in with @waterkeepermark and Swim Drink Fish Ambassador Tanis Rideout
Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink FIsh Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Tanis Rideout answers Mark’s questions. Tanis Rideout’s first novel, Above All Things, was a critically acclaimed best-seller, a Globe and Mail Best Book, and a New York Times Editors’ Pick. Her award winning poetry collection, Arguments with the Lake, grew out of her relationship with Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, which named her the Poet Laureate of Lake Ontario in 2006. Tanis…
Quelques grands principes pour mieux comprendre cerveau humain (2e de 2)
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From The Lab To The Polls: Climate Science and Public Policy
In a 2017 survey, researchers found that 56% of PhD graduates took jobs in academia after earning their degree, while the majority of remaining participants went into the pharmaceutical or biotechnical industry. Of the many disregarded career paths, perhaps one of the most interesting is the job of a science advisor within the government. Located at the crucial intersection between science and government, this role involves ensuring the proper use of scientific analysis in government…
The Privatization of Resources during an Age of Depletion
As evidence of a climate crisis continues to mount, the concern regarding retention of necessary resources climbs accordingly. These fears are not unfounded. Human-driven biodiversity decline is reflected in the rapid loss of species, which is estimated by the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) to be 1000 to 10,000 higher than the background extinction rate. Generated from the age of human-driven depletion is the anxiety regarding diminished diversity of agriculturally produced foods. Although the…
Greta Thunberg and Climate Change
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg would be an unfamiliar name even two years ago. Since 2018, however, the 18-yearold Swedish activist has gained tremendous global attention for her fight against climate change. She started the school strike for climate movement, which granted momentum through tremendous recognition and support from young people around the globe. She gave speeches at the UN Climate Action Summit, was featured on the Time Magazine cover as the Person of the…
Issue 1, 2020 – Cover
Surrealism originated in the late 1910s as an artistic movement that sought to unleash the expression of the subconscious and irrational mind. Artists of this movement painted illogical compositions, sometimes depicting creatures out of everyday objects or unexpectedly breaking natural laws — scenes that can only be found in a dream. Salvador Dalà was one of the most renowned artists of Surrealism and is the author of the iconic artwork named The Persistence of Memory.…
Letter from the Editors – Volume 8, Issue 1
“ ADULTS KEEP SAYING WE OWE IT TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE, TO GIVE THEM HOPE, BUT I DON’T WANT YOUR HOPE. I WANT YOU TO PANIC. I WANT YOU TO ACT AS IF THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE, BECAUSE IT IS.†– GRETA THUNBERG There are many reasons why Greta Thunberg took over the global media in 2019, but it was her candid words, full of frustration and brutal honesty, that inspired the younger generation…
Letter from the Chair – Volume 8, Issue 1
Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto I trust that IMMpress Magazine’s first issue of Volume 8 reaches you in good health and doing well, as we social distance and shelter in place. IMMpress starts its eighth year by highlighting the existential threat and dread that climate change can cause our graduate students. This issue provides a powerful and insightful set of articles on how climate change is affecting our thinking…
