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Innovative software modules for effective excess thermal energy recovery

November 3, 2021 Tech Xplore.com

After nearly two years of data collection and software development, EU-funded project, EMB3Rs, is almost ready to reveal the best ways that industry can re-use excess thermal energy.

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Official measures of research 'impact' are failing to keep pace with socially-networked academics

May 18, 2022

A survey of how academics use social media to encourage people to interact with their research argues that much of the public value of their work is probably being overlooked in official “impact” assessments.This post [...]
NBA sees rise in acts of symbolic violence, decline in acts of physical violence

May 18, 2022

A new analysis of NBA basketball broadcasts from 1998 to 2018 reveals a decline in acts of physical violence, such as pushing and elbowing, and a rise in acts of symbolic violence, such as shouting, [...]

Second-generation Central Americans in Toronto are dealing with historic trauma from civil war and migration

December 6, 2021

After seven years of community-based research with people who immigrated as children and adolescents (called 1.5-generation immigrants) and second-generation Central Americans in Canada, something I see repeatedly come up is the impact of past violence on people whose [...]
From Vincent Massey to Ed Rogers: Canada’s history of family firm feuds rivals Succession

December 5, 2021

In 1925, Vincent Massey, the scion of one of the wealthiest families in Canada, did something that Ed Rogers today would find unthinkable. He quit. Massey was the fourth-generation heir to his family’s Massey-Harris farm equipment company, then already [...]
Want to solve the housing crisis? Address super-charged demand

December 4, 2021

A recent news item about New Zealand’s radical new housing law and whether such measures could work in Canada implies that soaring home prices are due to a lack of supply. In its election platform, the Liberal party [...]
Annamie Paul: Lessons for the Green Party after ‘the worst period in my life’

December 10, 2021

The tenure of Annamie Paul as leader of the Green Party of Canada was short. Paul is resigning as leader of the Green Party less than a year after she took over. When Elizabeth May stepped down as [...]

Innovative software modules for effective excess thermal energy recovery

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Official measures of research 'impact' are failing to keep pace with socially-networked academics

NBA sees rise in acts of symbolic violence, decline in acts of physical violence

Second-generation Central Americans in Toronto are dealing with historic trauma from civil war and migration

From Vincent Massey to Ed Rogers: Canada’s history of family firm feuds rivals Succession

Want to solve the housing crisis? Address super-charged demand

Annamie Paul: Lessons for the Green Party after ‘the worst period in my life’