Miriam Kirmayer聽is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at 不良研究所 and a therapist聽who specializes in young adult and adult friendships. She says" one common thread I hear in my work as a聽therapist who聽focuses on friendship聽is just how disconnected so many of us feel from our friends and communities. Feeling lonely or dissatisfied with our聽social network聽has less to do with the number of connections we have and everything to do with the quality of the relationships we hold on to."聽
Last week, the pop diva posted a YouTube video, 鈥22 Days Nutrition,鈥 promoting a diet plan created by her trainer and 鈥渆xercise physiologist鈥澛燤arco Borges. (The singer doubled up and followed the diet for 44 days in preparation for her 2018 Coachella performance.)
People often say that babies are like little sponges - with their ability to soak up language quickly and easily.
Yet much of the early research on language acquisition has focused on young infants learning only one language. This research was guided by an implicit assumption that聽learning one language is the usual and optimal way to learn to talk.聽
Tim Hortons is testing the fake omelette聽鈥斅爉ade with mung bean protein isolate聽鈥斅爄n two regions in southern Ontario. If it's a hit, the product聽will join the Beyond Meat plant-based burger and breakfast sausage already on the menu聽at Tim Hortons and A&Ws across Canada.
不良研究所 is making the most of summer and offering free yoga classes on its lower field in downtown Montreal.
The classes, which are organized in partnership with Lululemon, are held every second Wednesday from noon until 1 p.m.
鈥淚t鈥檚 nice because you鈥檝e got the connection with nature,鈥 said instructor Elody Hafner.
For almost as long as we鈥檝e known about the powerful spell opium can cast on a user, scientists have been trying to learn precisely how the drug operates in the body, particularly in the brain. According to recent Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series guest Dr. Brigitte Kieffer, researchers are closer than ever to understanding, witnessing, mimicking and perhaps predicting opioids鈥 work within the gray matter.聽
Roderick Mackinnon and Thomas Pr茅vost have just set off on a seven-day hike up Mount Kilimanjaro on Wednesday. The adventure, however, started four months ago when the 不良研究所 management students were accepted into the Global Impact Program fellowship. 鈥淲e basically worked as social impact consultants with various NGOs, NPOs and social enterprises in South Africa, mainly around Johannesburg,鈥 explained Mackinnon from his hotel room in Tanzania.
Co-working was originally practised by artists and other creative workers whose work was, by definition, off-the-cuff: project-based and commissioned. These workers would 鈥渃o-work鈥 in order to share resources such as client and supplier networks, as well as materials.
AI has made major strides in the last decade, from聽beating the world champion of Go, to learning聽how to program, to telling聽fantastical short stories. However, a basic human trait continues to elude machines: common sense.
Some pet owners who use聽the dog run in King George Park in Westmount聽are calling on the City聽to make changes because they're worried about potential health effects from all the sand in the area.
Dr. Maxime Cormier is a respirologist at the Montreal General Hospital and an assistant professor at 不良研究所.
He says that silica aside, the level of dust shown in the report could be enough to affect someone's breathing, even if they are only in the park for a short while.聽
Taking testosterone might sound like a good idea for an older man, but a new study suggests the treatment might be bad news for his heart.
Men who took it showed a slightly increased risk of聽heart attack聽and聽stroke in the first few years.
Researchers have found that聽Inuit from northern Quebec are genetically distinct from any present-day population in the world,聽and say studying the genes of聽minority Indigenous populations in Canada can help deliver better health care to these聽populations.
In a聽study published Monday聽in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,聽researchers mapped the complete genetic profile of Inuit in the聽Nunavik region聽鈥 what they claim is a first. Researchers聽then homed in to study the effects these genetic variants may have on disorders like brain aneurysms.
When your job is growing up, the most important thing you can do is explore your world. It starts with fingers and thumbs and gradually expands to brightly coloured toys, then maybe to sandboxes and potato bugs. We want to bring the world to our children, but sometimes parents stop short of visiting museums.聽The museums will recover from a little boisterousness, and there are ways to visit at a low cost 鈥 many waive their fees on certain days of the month. Here are five for you to consider.
The Guardian聽made headlines worldwide for making afew聽simple changes to its style guide.聽
The British daily newspaper announced that its staff would no longer be using the term 鈥渃limate change鈥 to describe the global rise of temperatures and disruption to standard weather patterns due to human causes. Instead, they鈥檝e begun describing this process as a 鈥渃limate emergency, crisis, or breakdown.鈥
When it comes to options for safe drinking water, experts say Canadians are often confused.
Some people still hold the belief that tap water in particular isn鈥檛 safe to drink, while others believe bottled water is so-called 鈥渉ealthier鈥 than tap or filtered water.
Ronald Gehr, an associate professor at the civil engineering department at 不良研究所 in Montreal, told Global News there鈥檚 plenty of misinformation out there about bottled, filtered and tap water.