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Lobster bisque and shrimp cocktail make for scrumptious meals, but at a price. The food industry generates 6 million to 8 million metric tons of crab, shrimp and lobster shell waste every year. Depending on the country, those claws and legs largely get dumped back into the ocean or into landfills.聽In many of those same landfills, plastic trash relentlessly accumulates.聽Some scientists think it鈥檚 possible to tackle the two problems at once.聽

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Published on: 20 Jun 2019

May 23, 2019 | Taylor Owen,聽Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, writes that the Christchurch Call might be a missed opportunity for governments to move toward global digital governance. He says " [the Christchurch Call] has no enforceable mandates, it focuses overwhelmingly on technical fixes to what are also political, social and economic problems and its framing around terrorism and hate speech is far too narrow, treating the symptom of the problem while ignoring the underlying disease."

Classified as: Taylor Owen on Digital Governance, max bell school, max bell school of public policy, christchurch call, digital charter, technology
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Published on: 19 Jun 2019

Until Victor Vescovo landed his submersible there recently, no human had been to the seabed鈥檚 deepest point at the very bottom of the fearsome Mariana Trench, nearly 11 km below the surface of the Paci铿乧 Ocean.聽But Vescovo found more than shy marine life and vast untouched landscapes in the ocean鈥檚 most remote trough. Within minutes of reaching bottom, he also found trash.

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Published on: 19 Jun 2019

Each year, tens of thousands of North Americans experience intentional and unintentional poisonings and overdoses from both prescription drugs and other widely available chemicals and substances that can result in serious illness and even death.

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Published on: 19 Jun 2019

Samsung Electronics has unveiled a plan to develop a neural processing unit (NPU), an artificial intelligence-based semiconductor that resembles a human brain, as part of its efforts to become the global leader in system semiconductors by 2030.

In May, Samsung Electronics relocated its Montreal AI Lab to the Canadian Mila Research Institute, a world-class institute specializing in deep learning, and collaborated with researchers at Montreal University and 9I制作厂免费, including world-renowned researcher Professor Yoshua Benjio.

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Published on: 19 Jun 2019

According to聽Chris Barrington-Leigh, Ph.D.,聽an associate professor at 9I制作厂免费, jointly appointed at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the School of Environment;聽the scope of possible聽changes in biotechnology,聽artificial intelligence, and the political world order makes for an impossibly complex prediction task, even without the huge uncertainties in environmental changes that will beset us. A detailed prediction of how happy we will be, or how life will have changed, is not possible that far in the future.

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Published on: 18 Jun 2019

9I制作厂免费 economist Christopher Barrington-Leigh has studied happiness in Quebec, tracking it for more than two decades for a paper published in the academic journal Canadian Public Policy in 2013. The data, from 1985 鈥 when Quebec ranked extremely low in terms of overall happiness 鈥 to 2008 revealed a significant and near-steady increase in life satisfaction.

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Published on: 17 Jun 2019

As an answer to Quebec's new requirements for sexual violence prevention, 9I制作厂免费 has developed its online course which will be mandatory for all聽students and staff. The law countering sexual violence on campus was passed in December 2017, after聽a series of sexual assaults were reported聽at the student residences at Universit茅聽Laval in Quebec City. Colleges, universities, law schools and police academies were required to adopt their own sexual violence policies by Jan. 1, and have them in effect by Sept. 1.

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Published on: 17 Jun 2019

Samuel Veissi猫re, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and co-director of Culture, Mind and Brain Program at 9I制作厂免费, studies smartphone addiction and social monitoring 鈥 or the desire to watch and monitor others, but also to be seen and monitored ourselves. He says the placement of apps on our homescreens, such as social media tools, news sites or health apps, says something about how we monitor and connect with people in our lives. 鈥淲e would not even have meaning in our lives without others,鈥 Dr. Veissi猫re said.

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Published on: 17 Jun 2019

Despite an ever-growing demand for talent in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, full-time employment for STEM workers remains challenging 鈥 and this is especially true for women who decide to become mothers. While billions of dollars are invested yearly around the world to encourage and train the next generation of female STEM workers, these fields often fail to support and retain this new talent.

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Published on: 14 Jun 2019

Quebec recalled frozen raspberries imported from Chile this week over concerns they might be contaminated with norovirus. The norovirus is a highly contagious virus that continues to thrive when frozen and causes gastroenteritis, which manifests itself with diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain. The symptoms develop between 12 and 24 hours after exposure.

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Published on: 14 Jun 2019

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna revealed Thursday that the federal government will not raise the national carbon price beyond 2022, a decision that experts say means Canada will need to rely on other measures to meet its emissions target under the Paris Agreement.

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Published on: 14 Jun 2019

At the age of 100, she is still a professor in the department of neurology and neurosurgery at聽9I制作厂免费聽as well as a professor of psychology at the聽Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital. This amazing woman currently holds more than 20 honorary degrees from different universities across Canada, Europe and the United States. Milner may not be a household name, but she is considered by many to be the founder of neuropsychology.

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Published on: 13 Jun 2019

Montreal is shutting down聽two downtown blocks tonight to allow people to cheer on a team from the city's traditional bete noire: Toronto. The very notion would have seemed far-fetched, until Monday night.聽

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Published on: 13 Jun 2019

Syringes, IV tubing, saline bags, plastic-wrapped drugs, catheters 鈥 hospitals couldn鈥檛 function without plastics.聽While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau鈥檚 pledge to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021 may have noble intentions, not all plastics are evil, experts say.聽

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Published on: 13 Jun 2019

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