Reading Time: 3 minutes In a study aimed at helping youth develop mental health skills, seasoned pro players offer insights into early lessons that helped them stick around in the big leagues
Month: February 2021
In praise of Hee Haw’s old-time country laughs – and music
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time to bring back Hee Haw and its successful brand of comedy and country music to a whole new generation of TV viewers
Lockdowns didn’t work; they simply crippled our economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Quarantining the healthy, while failing to properly protect the most vulnerable, never made sense
Preserving the history of Alberta’s Black heritage
Reading Time: 4 minutes Great-granddaughter of an early settler, Debbie Beaver is preserving a vital part of a province’s history for all to know
New strategies for when a pandemic becomes endemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes What governments have done in response to COVID-19 has been remarkably injurious to humanity’s general health
Is the crude oil market rally just a mirage?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Crude oil demand recovery depends considerably on the revival of the transportation sector
Global vaccine certification would help world bounce back from COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes U of A professor Andy Knight is leading international development of a standard vaccination protocol to spur recovery worldwide
Truth, lies and the insidious rise of “misinformation”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Political debate has become sanctimonious lecturing, with one side refusing to accept even the possibility that they might be wrong
World’s Longest Hockey Game moving cancer research closer to goal
Reading Time: 5 minutes Annual fundraising effort to support clinical trial of precision drug developed at U of A
Strange weather and the words we use to describe it
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thousands of words describe weather. Some arise from folklore, some carry historical inferences and others are the result of superstition