Topic: Mcgill University

It's time to watch for a really weird bird at backyard feeders. It's a cardinal, but its head and neck are naked. It looks like a negative image of...
Theft, imitation and outright deception can make a painting's history even murkier than centuries of accumulated grime. But getting to the bottom...

Getting a jump on the season

All is quiet on the local theatre front. . . Except for the earlybirds. Some companies view this last-rose-of-summer lull as an opportunity to...
A logger lumbers an Afromosia tree into planks at an artisanal logging operation at Mugbamboli, DRC, May 30, 2009. Photograph: Daniel...
Consumers could be buying even smaller iPods, cellphones and computers in less than a decade as new research from McGill University suggests nearly...
For decades, apocalyptic environmentalists (and others) have warned of humanity's imminent doom, largely as a result of our unsustainable use of...

Smoking cannabis relieves chronic pain: study

Smoking cannabis can relieve chronic neuropathic pain and help sufferers sleep, researchers said in a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday.Smoking pot also improved their mood, said the researchers led by Mark Ware at McGi
The medicinal use of cannabis has been debated by clinicians, researchers, legislators and the public at large for many years as an alternative to...

Pseudoscience: From Quirks to Quacks

Uri Geller's bent spoons, UFOs, crop circles created by space aliens, the Bermuda Triangle, psychic Edgar Cayce (and his flimsy predictions)...

A Tool to Fight City Hall