/oss/taxonomy/term/56/all en /oss/events/25th-anniversary-celebration-retrospective-joe-schwarcz <h2 style="text-align:center"><em>A <a href="https://youtu.be/37bVVmYq4JI?si=TdZCFZXOzLBz5YHR">recording of the event</a> is now available on our YouTube channel.聽</em></h2> <h2 style="text-align:center">聽</h2> <h2 style="text-align:center"><b>Join the OSS as we celebrate 25 years of separating sense from nonsense!</b></h2> <h2 style="text-align:center"><img alt="OSS 25th anniversary event" height="1006" width="1921" style="width: 600px; height: 314px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/oss/files/oss/oss_25_fb_event_cover_photo_1920x1005_final1_1.png" /></h2> Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:20:35 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 9854 at /oss /oss/channels/event/documentary-screening-virulent-vaccine-war-347195 <p>On <strong>May 11th, 2023</strong> the 平特五不中 Office for Science and Society (OSS) will host a screening of the documentary, "Virulent: The Vaccine War". Following the screening, Director of the OSS Dr.</p> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:55:08 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 9446 at /oss /oss/events/documentary-screening-virulent-vaccine-war <h4><img alt="Virulent event poster" height="1500" width="2667" style="width: 600px; height: 337px; float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/oss/files/oss/cer4810_virulent_facebook_2_1.jpg" /><strong><em>Registration is now closed for this event.</em></strong></h4> Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:35:47 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 9392 at /oss /oss/article/health-videos/right-chemistry-most-expensive-wine-world <p></p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-1"></div> Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:58:46 +0000 OSS 8610 at /oss /oss/article/videos/radio-beginnings <p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-2"> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" id="media-youtube-owcxz4z-kg8" width="640" height="390" title="Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Radio beginnings" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OWCXZ4z-Kg8?wmode=opaque&controls=&enablejsapi=1&modestbranding=1&playerapiid=media-youtube-owcxz4z-kg8&origin=https%3A//www.mcgill.ca&rel=0" name="Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Radio beginnings" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>Video of Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Radio beginnings</iframe> </div> </p> Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:00:37 +0000 OSS 8351 at /oss /oss/channels/event/covid-and-more-conversations-mcgill-office-science-and-society-322589 <p>This week, the OSS is speaking with聽Fred Morin, co-owner of <em>Joe Beef</em>, <em>McKiernan</em>, Liverpool House, & <em>Le Vin Papillon</em>, along with Joel Tietolman, owner of the <em>Mile End Deli</em> in New York City, to discuss the cha</p> Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:56:29 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 8271 at /oss /oss/channels/event/covid-and-more-conversations-mcgill-office-science-and-society-322573 <p>This week, the OSS is once again joined by Dr.</p> Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:50:05 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 8270 at /oss /oss/channels/event/food-medicine-ask-expert-320523 <p>As March is Nutrition Month, the Jewish General Hospital is organizing聽<strong>Food is Medicine: Ask the Expert聽</strong>where you can ask any food and nutrition questions to the following experts:</p> Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:43:01 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 8122 at /oss /oss/channels/event/seeds-presented-porte-parole-productions-partnership-mcgill-office-science-and-society-313617 <h2>Porte Parole Productions in partnership with the 平特五不中 Office for聽Science and Society presents聽SEEDS聽</h2> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 21:16:59 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 8091 at /oss /oss/channels/event/trottier-symposium-longing-longevity-299614 <h2>The 2019聽Trottier Public Science Symposium: "Longing for Longevity"</h2> <h3>Tuesday & Wednesday, October 22聽and 23</h3> <p><em>All events will take place at the聽Centre Mont-Royal, 1000 Sherbrooke Street West (corner Mansfield)</em></p> Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:14:11 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 7871 at /oss /oss/channels/event/oss-20th-anniversary-event-talking-science-age-fake-news-295743 <p><strong><em>Event is SOLD OUT. A recording of the event will be available on YouTube following the event. Be sure to follow us on FB and Twitter for updates!</em></strong></p> Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:33:24 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 7670 at /oss /oss/events/oss20th <p>Thank you for joining the 平特五不中 Office for Science and Society celebrate our 20th anniversary!</p> <p>A video the evening can be viewed here or on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/makingsenseofscience/playlists?view_as=subscriber">our YouTube channel.</a></p> Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:39:39 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 7668 at /oss /oss/channels/event/dr-joe-book-talk-toronto-public-library-city-hall-287151 <p>Dr. Joe will discuss his new book, "A Feast of Science"!</p> <p>Free and open to the public. Signed copies available.</p> Fri, 11 May 2018 18:17:04 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 7083 at /oss /oss/article/food-health/blackberries-and-blue-tortillas <p style="text-align:justify"><a href="http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/?p=5422"><img alt="blackberries" height="150" src="http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/files/2013/06/blackberries-150x150.jpg" width="150" /></a>Chop up and boil some purple cabbage. Take some of the juice, and add a little vinegar. It turns a bright red. Now add some baking soda and watch the juice turn blue. What鈥檚 going on? The color of purple cabbage is due to compounds called anthocyanins. In this case, we are looking at anthocyanins that absorb wavelengths of light other than purple, which they reflect. The addition of an acid or a base to these molecules slightly alters their structure and changes their light absorption pattern. But the really neat thing about this experiment is that it can benefit more than your mind. It can benefit your health. All you have to do is eat the cabbage after you鈥檙e through ogling the color changes. Those anthocyanins not only absorb light, they also have antioxidant properties, meaning that they can neutralize some of the potentially health damaging free radicals that are a byproduct of inhaling oxygen. The deeper the colour of a fruit or vegetable, the more anthocyanins it contains. That鈥檚 why researchers are interested in berries, grapes and even blue corn. Blackberries, being particularly rich in anthocyanins and antioxidant activity, are excellent candidates for health benefits. Researchers at Ohio State University fed diets laced with freeze-dried blackberries to rats after injecting them with azoxymethane, a chemical that causes colon tumours. The results were impressive. The more berries a rat ate, the fewer tumours it had. <a href="http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/2013/06/11/blackberries-and-blue-tortillas">Read more</a></p> Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:01:01 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1957 at /oss /oss/article/controversial-science-food-health-news/food-babe-and-her-hero <p>The "Food Babe," a lady who blogs about food issues, is a continuous source of comic relief for the scientifically minded but for many members of the public she is a respected "whistleblower" who protects them from all those nasty food producers who want to kill off their customers by hiding dangerous ingredients in their products. Now she has managed to reveal how pizza can "literally" blow your mind! She has set her sights on glutamic acid which is added to pizza in the form of protein hydrolyzate or yeast extract to improve flavour and get people to eat more.</p> Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:48:23 +0000 Joe Schwarcz 2120 at /oss