Dina Brooks answers q's
Answer: Introducing physical activity shortly after a stroke appears to help patients regain their motor skills. The idea of taking a more aggressive approach to rehabilitation within the first two weeks after stroke is relatively new – and research suggests it speeds recovery. Exercise can stop the inactive cycle before it even begins. (A lack [...]
Law prof suggests changes to legal aid system
An Ontario lawyer group is calling for reforms to the legal aid system so that more Canadians have access to justice.
Students develop emergency room simulator
Summer jobs don’t get much better than this. A team of six students from different faculties at the University of Toronto has spent the past nine weeks developing Pulse Check, an online emergency room simulator – a glorified video game – that allows doctors, medical students and hospital managers to test changes in procedures, technology [...]
Spencer Barrett leads team differentiating plants species
Scientists are a step closer to differentiating the more than 300,000 species of plants in the world, thanks to new molecular work from a Canadian team of researchers from the Universities of Guelph, British Columbia and Toronto.
Harley Sims considers the cultural context of Batman
In this, the so-called summer of the anti-hero, The Dark Knight seems categorically predestined. As some may have noticed over the last 20 years or so, the Dark Knight is a dark hero, and when the new Batman shares the film season with the likes of Hancock and The Hulk, the interpretive trend seems irresistible. [...]
Prof Tong Lam on the excitement surrounding the Olympics
Over his heart, Toronto shopkeeper Yong Ping Yu still wears a pin in support of the Communist Party of China, despite the fact he left the country more than 20 years ago. continue
U of T president’s op-ed
Week after week, headlines in this newspaper raise unsettling questions about Canada’s international competitiveness. Canada has some of the best value-added natural resource companies in the world. But, in the global race to build an innovation-based economy, we are lagging behind countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Israel. continue
Demographics of mating influence sex ratio
Environmental factors can transform the ratio of females to males in plant populations, according to new research out of the University of Toronto. continue
Ernie Lightman op-ed
Personally, I’m quite relieved the Ontario ombudsman won’t be able to investigate the many individual complaints about quality of care in the province’s nursing homes. continue
Jafar Arkani-Hamed shows asteroid pulled on fluid in planet’s core
CAN you flip a planet’s magnetic field on and off like a light switch? An asteroid could have done just that to Mars 4 billion years ago. continue citation & scholarly article
