Tag: World

  • Fighting an Uphill Battle

    Fighting an Uphill Battle

    Majority of Earth’s glaciers not expected to survive the century. By Kristy Condon, University of Alberta Climatologist Andy Bush could give Indiana Jones a run for his money when it comes to pursuing science in the face of danger. A professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bush has travelled the world to…

  • Rare Salamander Lays Eggs in Slovenia Cave

    Rare Salamander Lays Eggs in Slovenia Cave

    Slovenian folklore speaks of baby dragons flushed from parents’ subterranean lairs. Today, we know these rare creatures as the olm, and one of them has laid eggs. In the subterranean caves of central and southeastern Europe dwells a rare and unusual aquatic salamander species known as the olm. Its females lay their eggs just once…

  • Infographic: What is Functional Zero?

    Infographic: What is Functional Zero?

    Vineeth Sekharan York University; Canadian Observatory on Homelessness/Homeless Hub This week’s infographic comes to us from Community Solutions and looks at ending veteran homelessness. Community Solutions is an organization located in the United States that is working towards a future without homelessness. The organization takes a community-based approach for identifying the best tools that can…

  • Ancient Pyramid Discovered in the Caribbean

    Ancient Pyramid Discovered in the Caribbean

    TORONTO /CNW/ – Amateur archaeologist Raymond Julien finds an Egyptian-style pyramid sticking out of the ocean. The island pyramid is covered in tropical trees and lava. The trees covering the island reveal the shape of something hidden underneath, resembling the outline of a pyramid with 40 degree angles on each side. Having visited the island last March,…

  • How Unemployment Affects Serious Property Crime: A National Case-control Study

    How Unemployment Affects Serious Property Crime: A National Case-control Study

    By Pooja Gupta Americans have ranked jobs and unemployment among the country’s biggest problems. In January 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that 7.9 million people – 5 percent of the total work force — were unemployed. However, the Bureau’s definition of unemployment is narrow in that it excludes some people who are…

  • Planet Waves: The Election, Saturn and the Great Attractor

    Planet Waves: The Election, Saturn and the Great Attractor

    Dear Friend and Reader: It’s political season in the U.S. of A. Unlike most countries, where they get in and out of the elections, here in the States we have an endless phase of quarter finals, semi-finals, demi-finals, playoffs, and finally, the final finals.. The presidential race goes on for two years, with many hundreds…

  • Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years after Einstein’s Prediction

    Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years after Einstein’s Prediction

    LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes Syracuse University integral to detection of gravitational waves by LIGO For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This…

  • Four New Deep-Sea Xenoturbella Species Discovered

    Four New Deep-Sea Xenoturbella Species Discovered

    Four new species of Xenoturbella have been discovered living in the deep waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean by a team of scientists from the Western Australian Museum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium & Research Institute in the United States. Looking a little like empty socks that crawl along the ocean…

  • February 09, 2016 Shrove Tuesday: Bring on the paczkis (and pancakes)! It’s Mardi Gras

    February 09, 2016 Shrove Tuesday: Bring on the paczkis (and pancakes)! It’s Mardi Gras

    TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9: Empty those cupboards and refrigerators and indulge in sweet paczkis, delicate crepes, spongy pancakes and even a King Cake—it’s Fat Tuesday, the last day before the start of Western Christian Lent. For centuries, Christians have gathered their supply of sugar, butter, eggs and other rich foods on Fat Tuesday, cooking up an…

  • Canada’s National Defence: Update on Operation IMPACT

    Canada’s National Defence: Update on Operation IMPACT

      As directed by the Government of Canada in February 2016, the CAF will end the conduct of airstrikes in Iraq and Syria by the 22 February, 2016. As a result, the six CF-188 Hornets, along with associated aircrew and support personnel currently deployed to the region, will return to Canada in a phased approach. Train, Advise…

  • Lunar New Year: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    Lunar New Year: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    (Google/Alyssa Winans) The Lunar New Year is being celebrated on February 8 with a Google Doodle. The New Year ushers in the Year of the Fire Monkey, the ninth in the 12-year zodiac cycle. The monkey represents “quick wittedness” and “smarts,” according to Google. “Doodler Alyssa Winans illustrated a family of monkeys in the traditional…

  • 511 Alberta Innovations Mean Safer Roads

    511 Alberta Innovations Mean Safer Roads

      511 Alberta has launched two new platforms designed to help Albertans navigate our roads and highways year-round. Alberta will be the first jurisdiction in Canada to launch a mobile app that allows citizen reporting of road conditions. The Citizen Reporter app will empower Albertans to report road conditions once they have taken an online…

  • Global Trends in Human Infectious Disease: Rising Number of Outbreaks, Fewer Per-Capita Cases

    Global Trends in Human Infectious Disease: Rising Number of Outbreaks, Fewer Per-Capita Cases

    By Natasha Sokol and Denise-Marie Ordway The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa dramatically raised awareness of the global burden of infectious disease and raised questions about the preparedness of public health systems. In February 2016, the public scrambled to understand the implications of the Zika virus after the World Health Organization designated it as an international public health emergency because…

  • A Brief History of Canada and the Holocaust

    A Brief History of Canada and the Holocaust

    While Canada did not directly experience the Holocaust, it was impacted in many ways by the tragedy. Canada’s restrictive immigration policies at the time largely closed the door on Jews seeking to flee Europe. This included 937 Jewish passengers of the M.S. St. Louis, who were refused entry into Canada, and many subsequently died in…

  • Try a 120-Square-Foot Home on For Size at the Tiny-House Hotel in Portland, Ore.

    Try a 120-Square-Foot Home on For Size at the Tiny-House Hotel in Portland, Ore.

    Leave it to progressive Portland, Ore., to introduce the first tiny-house hotel The owners of Caravan say it’s the first legal commercial application of tiny houses in the United States. By Melanie D.G. Kaplan The lure of the tiny house is huge. These small homes, less than 200 square feet and often on wheels, appeal…