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What If We Were Able To Graze on Grass Like Cows?

20 Jun 2025

On a future field trip to Mount Royal, I imagine opening up my lunch box to find a small forest of fried insects flavoured with MSG and curry powder. On the side are some salmon rice balls. Noting...

Disrupting Science with Crypto

6 Jun 2025

Let鈥檚 say I am afflicted by a common but non-life-threatening condition. I shall refer to this fictional misfortune as 鈥渃hin gribbles.鈥 I have chin gribbles. Many people have chin gribbles. It鈥檚...

Your Blood Predicts Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease

23 May 2025

My first laboratory job was right after earning my Master鈥檚 degree, and it was on a research project on Alzheimer鈥檚 disease. I had to test DNA samples from participants for a particular form of the...

Confronting Nefarious Nitrosamines

9 May 2025

鈥淏oil the nipples!鈥 was the advice given in 1984 by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. to parents who were bottle feeding their infants or calming them with pacifiers. The presence of...

RECCO Reflectors Echo Safety Signals

14 Mar 2025

A goal of mine in 2025 was to tackle a new outdoor sport: backcountry skiing. With the promise of untracked snow and uncrowded runs, venturing off-piste was enticing. But with that also came the...

Harm from Noise-Cancelling Headphones? More Questions than Answers

28 Feb 2025

Are noise-cancelling headphones making it harder for teenagers and young adults to understand speech in a noisy environment?

The Dangers of Mirror Life

10 Jan 2025

One of the better-known episodes of the original Star Trek series is called 鈥淢irror, Mirror鈥 and it dramatizes a freak transporter accident which sends Kirk, Uhura, Bones, and Scotty to an...

Dental X-Rays May Be Overused But They Are Safe

6 Dec 2024

X-rays of our teeth are routinely prescribed by dentists, but you know what else follows a certain periodicity? Media coverage of the alleged danger and overuse of these dental radiographs.

Is There a Magic Bullet for Alzheimer's Disease?

25 Oct 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette....

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