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Cancer care is often impersonal, industrial and needlessly stressful. Allowing patients to witness personal introductions between their physicians would help ease their anxiety and build trust.
Building resilience in Cape Town’s water sector will require addressing risks like climate change, drought and flooding. Stormwater and groundwater are tipped as potential solutions.
Pride Month: It’s time to talk about the shockingly high rate of suicide among gay and bisexual men. Photos and stories in the Still Here project document the complex reasons.
Co-founders Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida explain how The Conversation Canada contributes to re-working what journalism can and should do.
Scientists have never found a medicine to help crack users who want to decrease their consumption. Canadian researchers think cannabis might be the answer.
A new study shows that adding an energy drink to alcohol increases risk-taking among young people – but the effect is imagined rather than real.
Une nouvelle étude française montre qu’ajouter une boisson énergisante à l’alcool augmente la prise de risques chez les jeunes. Surprise : l’effet désinhibant n’est pas réel, mais fantasmé !
Is organic produce better for you? Can organic farming feed the world? Those might be the wrong questions.
Coastal indigenous peoples consume nearly four times more seafood per capita than the world average and have strong cultural ties to the sea. Global ocean policies should preserve these connections.
Research suggests the answer, surprisingly, may be no, but behavioral science offers a few ways to encourage the wealthy to open their wallets a little wider.
The US election has highlighted the waning influence of evidence-based journalism.
Les pêcheries artisanales font vivre des millions d’Africains de l’Ouest, mais leur rôle est clairement sous-estimé et la pêche illégale les menace.
The fisheries sector in West Africa is beset with serious challenges including over-fishing and, in particular, illegal fishing.
The South China Sea produces more than 10% of the world’s fish – but the catch is increasingly under threat.
Shortly after Glen MacPherson started hearing strange humming noises, he created the World Hum and Database Project so people around the world could document their own experiences with the Hum.
Many African cities are sites of rapid urbanisation. To ensure that such societies are water resilient, it is necessary to address formal and informal forms of development.
The academic medical community largely views Wikipedia with suspicion. But some traditional journals are starting to take the site more seriously – and some journals work very closely with it.
Researching how news has changed from the 17th century to the present makes two scholars sanguine about its future.
For human groups to grow from small, intimate communities to the huge interconnected societies we know now, people needed to be willing to cooperate with strangers. Religion might have played a big role.
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Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Writing Studies, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia
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Associate Vice-President, Equity & Inclusion and Honorary Associate Professor Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
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Associate professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia
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Adjunct Professor in Biology, University of British Columbia
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Canada Research Chair in Terrestrial Mammal Conservation, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer, School of Global and International Affairs, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
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Director & Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
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Sessional Lecturer & PhD Candidate, East Asian Culture, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Political Science and Principal's Research Chair, University of British Columbia
