Even if you exercise, sitting too much is linked to health risks from anxiety to diabetes. But this ‘invisible’ behaviour may pervade our lives even more under COVID-19 stay-at-home guidelines.
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What does Dr. Anthony Fauci have in common with a fictional doctor in Henrik Ibsen’s classic 1882 play, ‘An Enemy of the People’? More than you’d think.
Migrant workers are not inherently more vulnerable to COVID-19, nor more likely to be carrying it than Canadians. Yet our treatment of them this year stigmatizes them and puts them at risk.
Les communautés noires et immigrantes du Canada sont plus vulnérables à la Covid-19.
If you want to boost your energy and mood and feel more alert, get moving instead of getting coffee.
La gente se aferra a la música que le resulta familiar para superar periodos difíciles como el que estamos viviendo. Los refugiados de la guerra civil de El Salvador usaban la música para iluminar los recuerdos de su pasado.
The hyper-competitiveness of Michael Jordan may work on the basketball court, but the win-at-all-cost American culture that Jordan represents is not what’s needed to end the coronavirus pandemic.
Black and immigrant communities in Canada are more vulnerable to COVID-19.
Recipe sharing is all the rage in the pandemic as in other times of turmoil. English cookbooks of the 16th and 17th centuries promised recipes for comfort with a dash of glamour.
In 2015, Justin Trudeau announced that ‘Canada is back’ and promised to support a rules-based international order. Yet Canada has maintained the previous Conservative government’s pro-Israel stance.
Moral injury happens when someone is faced with a choice that violates deep moral beliefs. Health-care workers treating COVID-19 might be forced to choose between ‘wrong’ and ‘wronger.’
People rely on familiar music to get through difficult times. Refugees from El Salvador’s civil war used music to light up memories of their past.
À mesure que la distanciation sociale s'installe, nous intégrons de plus en plus les communications en ligne dans notre vie sociale. Mais elles ne compensent pas le langage corporel ou le toucher.
The danger of treating COVID-19 as an astronomically rare and improbable event is that we will treat it as such and fail to prepare for the next pandemic. And there will be another pandemic.
As social distancing continues, we’ve increasingly incorporated online and digital communications into our social life. But these technologies can’t compensate for body language or touch.
University instructors should have more leeway in using copyrighted materials during the coronavirus pandemic.
From balcony concerts to Zoom choirs, neuroscience shows why people are compelled to connect through music while the pandemic keeps them under stay-at-home orders.
Les données ne s’analysent pas d’elles-mêmes, et les modèles n’émettent pas de directives politiques entièrement formées. Le rôle des scientifiques est essentiel pour planifier l'avenir de la société.
For athletes, COVID-19 means more than cancelled competitions. Having their athletic goals put on hold and their training routines disrupted can take a toll on athletes’ mental health.
Children in our schools are the latest at risk in a brave new age of surveillance and data control that is being catalyzed by hasty educational technology decisions under COVID-19.
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology, Western University
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Post-Doctoral Associate, Child Health and Physical Activity Lab, Western University
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, Western University
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DANCAP Private Equity Chair in Human Organization, Western University
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Environment, Western University
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Distinguished University Professor and Associate Dean Teacher Education, Western University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Western University
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PhD Candidate, Law, Western University
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Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, Western University
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Professor, Department of English, Western University
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Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Western University
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Professor of Psychology, Western University
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PhD Candidate, Clinical Psychology, Western University
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Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Western University
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Associate Professor, School of Health Studies, Western University
