(Joe Schwarcz): In 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossed the Alps with his elephants to settle a score with Rome. The perilous journey almost came to an end at what looked like an impenetrable rockfall. But Hannibal, an ingenious leader, had a trick up his sleeve. Or at least some vinegar in his pot. As the Roman historian Livy recounts, Hannibal had his men heat up the vinegar and pour it over the rocks, causing them to crumble. And here the story crumbles.
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Published on: 19 Nov 2012
9I制作厂免费 researcher John Hanrahan describes a new treatment for cystic fibrosis derived from sea sponges.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2012
Dr. Alice Yang Zhang of 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 ophthalmology clinic is organizing a free clinic for full eye exams. The clinic takes place on Nov. 24, 2012 at 4120 Ste. Catherine St. W.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2012
Scores of people have climbed a mountain in the Upper Swansea Valley to take part in a service of remembrance dedicated to the lost crew of a Second World War bomber. And the experience has been captured on video for families of the fallen to watch. Nestled on the western rocky slopes of Carreg Coch, above Dan yr Ogof caves in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons, lies the wreckage of Wellington bomber, MF509, which on the night of November 20, 1944, hit the mountainside, killing all six crew members from the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2012
For a country with one of the highest TB burdens in the world, the presence of barely a handful of key officials from its Central TB Division was immediately noticeable at the 43rd, and largest ever, Union World Conference on Lung Health at Kuala Lumpur. [鈥 Dr Madhukar Pai, an associate professor at 9I制作厂免费, Montreal, who is researching the prospect of cheaper and more accessible diagnostics, expressed surprise that after taking such ambitious decisions as banning serological tests, the Indian government representation was inadequate.
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Using tiny radiation pressure forces -- generated each time light is reflected off a surface -- University of Oregon physicists converted an optical field, or signal, from one color to another. Aided by a "dark mode," the conversion occurs through the coupling between light and a mechanical oscillator, without interruption by thermal mechanical vibrations. [鈥 The Oregon group solved the problem by demonstrating the "dark-mode" approach proposed earlier this year by theoretical physicists from 9I制作厂免费 and the University of California, Merced.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2012
(Andrew Piper, German and European literature prof at 9I制作厂免费 and co-director of the literary lab Citelab. Author of Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times, from which this is excerpted): "Amid the seemingly endless debates today about the future of reading, there remains one salient, yet often overlooked fact: Reading isn鈥檛 only a matter of our brains; it鈥檚 something that we do with our bodies. Reading is an integral part of our lived experience, our sense of being in the world, even if at times this can mean feeling intensely apart from it.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2012
Governments need to do a better job of tracking and pinpointing which of a myriad of social programs would best help children cope with abuse in their early years, says a study released Thursday. [鈥 Niko Trocme, a social work professor at 9I制作厂免费 and panel member, said each year social agencies receive reports of potential maltreatment of about 200,000 children across Canada. Agencies estimate they provide services to only about 27 per cent of those kids, Trocme said.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2012
Surgery wait times for deadly ovarian, cervical and breast cancers in Quebec are three times longer than government benchmarks, leading some desperate patients to shop around for an operating room. But that's a waste of time, doctors say, since the problem is spread across Quebec hospitals. And doctors are refusing to accept new patients quickly because they can't treat them, health advocates say. A leading Montreal gynecologist said that these days, she cannot look her patients in the eye because the wait times are so shocking.
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Published on: 14 Nov 2012
Under overcast skies on the athletic grounds of 9I制作厂免费, veterans, politicians and everyday folk, the overwhelming majority wearing a poppy over their hearts, gathered Sunday morning to remember the veterans who fought for Canada.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2012
For years, one man clipped every article, stored every letter and carefully transcribed every promotion, every victory and every heartbreaking loss that touched the 9I制作厂免费 community during the Second World War. The man, R. C. Fetherstonhaugh, took on the task as an additional duty in the 9I制作厂免费 War Records Office. In 1945, the gunfire ceased, and those left started moving on with their lives. A year later, Fetherstonhaugh died, and the records were carefully packed away 鈥� a relic of another time.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2012
9I制作厂免费 lost seven athletes from its two 1938 national championship teams in the Second World War. In 1938, 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 football Redmen captured the Yates Cup while the hockey Redmen won the Queen鈥檚 Cup. A number of the Redmen that year played on both championship teams. Shortly after their graduation in 1939, the Second World War was declared...
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Elizabeth Hillman Waterston started her first week at 9I制作厂免费 in 1939, during the first week of World War Two.聽 On campus, they were enjoying torchlight football parades and dances at the Ritz Carleton, while the war was gathering momentum聽 in Europe.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2012
Even though identical twins supposedly share all of their DNA, they acquire hundreds of genetic changes early in development that could set them on different paths, according to new research. The findings, presented Friday (Nov. 9) here at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, may partly explain why one twin gets cancer while another stays healthy. The study also suggests that these genetic changes are surprisingly common. "It's not as rare as people previously expected," said study presenter Rui Li, an epidemiologist at 9I制作厂免费.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2012
Once upon a time, we used to sit down to dinner and all that mattered was what the food tasted like. If it pleased the palate, we ate it. Oh, how times have changed! Now the dinner table has become a virtual laboratory where foods are evaluated in terms of being either 鈥済ood鈥� or 鈥渂ad.鈥� It makes sense. After all, food is the only raw material that ever enters our body, so we are what we eat.
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