Inside the National Microbiology Laboratory ( Winnipeg) working with one of the most dangerous pathogens known to man — ebola
Tom Blackwell, National Post
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Charles Darwin's evolutionary reading: HMS Beagle's library goes online
The Guardian The Beagle’s library of more than 400 books has been reconstructed and made freely available in digital form HMS Beagle’s library was reconstructed using letters sent by crew members, Darwin’s notebooks and his surviving book collection. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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Pet Cats in Europe Are Infested with Parasites
By Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience Journal Club One out of every two pet cats in Europe is infested with some sort of parasite, according to research published last week in the journal Parasites and Vectors. Ear mites and fleas were the most prevalent bugs found outside of the body, while intestinal worms and lung worms were…
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Dans une revue scientifique, Journal of Religion and Health, un auteur turc, Kemal Irmak, explique la cause de la schizophrénie: les démons.
Ross Pomeroy, Real Clear Science IS SCHIZOPHRENIA CAUSED by demons? A Turkish researcher seems to think so, and his article on the topic was just published in the Journal of Religion and Health, a scientific journal owned by Springer, a German-based publishing company. The first two-thirds of M. Kemal Irmak’s paper, “Schizophrenia or Possession?”, read normally enough. You learn about the…
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How the Sweetener Industry Sugar-Coats Science
—By Gabrielle Canon, Mother Jones Food companies have spent billions of dollars to cover up the link between sugar consumption and health problems. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
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Émission NOVA: le voyage des papillons
Where do butterflies journey each year? Many in North America end up in a sanctuary in the highlands of Mexico and NOVA has the complete story on this remarkable migration. To capture this story, NOVA’s filmmakers used a helicopter, ultralight, and hot-air balloon for amazing aerial views along the transcontinental route.
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Spécial sucre
Sugar oveload Forget fat. Forget gluten. Sugar is fuelling the biggest health crisis of our time. Article du Maclean’s . …. Le Kiosque a déjà signalé: «Big Sugar» ( Documentaire de CBC) explore le sombre passé des cartels du sucre et leur pouvoir dans le monde moderne. Se servant de reconstitutions de la vie à…
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INFOGRAPHIE
Comment les bactéries deviennent résistantes Par Pauline Léna, Le Figaro
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La vérité sur Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors
Space elevators, teleportation, hoverboards, and driverless cars: The top-secret Google X innovation lab opens up about what it does–and how it thinks. Un article de Fast Company
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La « synergologie »
On a eu un écho de la « synergologie » (discipline qui décode le langage nonverbal) lorsque Philippe Turchet a analysé à TVA le premier débat des chefs des élections québécoises 2012. Mais il y a aussi la chroniqueuse Jocelyne Robert qui précise sur son site qu’elle a une formation de synergologue. Le Kiosque signale un article de…