Science News from the National Institute of Mental Health is a fantastic resource for teachers, psychologists, and others who want to keep abreast of the latest research on a range of mental health concerns. Readers can scout the site by Recent News, which appears automatically on the homepage. They can also delve into the hundreds…
Club Innovation & Culture France Le 30 mars 2015, les musées et les archives d’Ottawa ont lancé le catalogue virtuel de leurs collections. Une initiative commune qui donne un accès instantané et mondial à plus de 30 000 dossiers d’œuvres, images et autres documents d’archives, apportés par 11 institutions.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/proverbe/pres.htm
By Shannon Mizzi Wilson Quarterly Prison gangs play a vital role in the prison economy, in enforcing order, and — counterintuitively — in reducing violence.
Educational Comics Collection Are you interested in reading about « Adventures in Electricity»? Perhaps you’d like to peruse « All Aboard Mr. Lincoln»? These fascinating titles (and 76 others) are available here, courtesy of the University of Nebraska Libraries. This compelling collection contains educational comics created by a raft of different government agencies and other…
Garrett Epps The Atlantic The Supreme Court has been asked to take a case that could deal a crippling blow to the labor movement.
Par Amandine Hirou et A. H. L’Express On les croise partout: au boulot, en amour… Pourtant, le pouvoir de séduction des manipulateurs peut devenir une arme redoutable contre ceux dont ils exploitent les faiblesses. Mieux vaut apprendre à s’en défendre. Certes, il est rare de croiser le chemin d’un Bernard Madoff, escroc financier de haut…
Margaret Wente The Globe and Mail If you want to put a tax on greenhouse gas emissions, there’s an easy way to do it. You implement a carbon tax, like British Columbia did, and add it to the price of gasoline and other fossil fuels. The higher the emissions, the more tax people pay. Anyone…
La République des livres On connaît bien les voyages des écrivains, des intellectuels, des journalistes et des artistes français en Allemagne nazie. On connaît tout aussi bien des ceux des écrivains, des intellectuels , des journalistes et des artistes français en Union soviétique stalinienne. Les regrettés François Dufay et Fred Kupferman, notamment, leur ont consacré…
New data from Statistics Canada’s National Household Survey shows that 1,400,685 people had an aboriginal identity in 2011, or 4.3% of the total Canadian population. The aboriginal population increased by 232,385 people, or 20.1% between 2006 and 2011, compared with 5.2% for the rest of Canada’s non-aboriginal population. Projections show that the aboriginal identity population in Canada…