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This month, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations group looking at the science behind climate change, released its sixth assessment report. Its findings were stark, grim, and unequivocal

This summary will outline the steps of completing a Cochrane systematic review and the requirements of the PRISMA format, as well as provide links to helpful tools.

April 27th, 2021 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. He was the first person to personally travel around the Earth, doing so in three voyages. First, he travelled to the East Indies twice, leaving from Portugal and sailing south-east around the coast of Africa. In his third voyage he…

Canada ordered enough COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate the general population several times over. Yet, none of those are manufacturing domestically. Where are our vaccine manufacturers and how can this issue be addressed in the future.

If you walk around any human settlement today, sooner or later you will find some graffiti. Sure enough, ancient people also took to this strange pastime.

Many people say I always have my nose in a book. This year, I kept a list of all the books I read and am sharing it here. I got this idea from Barak Obama who releases a Top 10 list of his favourite books every year. This post reviews a selection of the ones I read, providing some background and what I did or did not like.

Several of the potential COVID-19 vaccines make use of a new technology: mRNA. The use of this new type of vaccine has huge advantages but their development also comes with unique challenges.

Turkeys are native to North America and yet are named for a country in the Middle East. This is just one part of a Thanksgiving mystery.

Populism and the threat of authoritarianism is rising in many of the world’s democracies. In Canada, a quirk of the constitution could provide a tempting tool to any populist leaders.