/oss/taxonomy/term/78/all en /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/events/trottier2019 <h2><img height="281" width="500" style="float: left;" class="file-extra-large lt" src="/oss/files/oss/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/fb_2.jpg?itok=J0knnbE1" alt="" /></h2> <hr /> <h2>Symposium Schedule</h2> <h2><strong>Tuesday聽| October 22</strong></h2> <p><strong>Roundtable Session: 1:30pm - 3:00pm</strong><br /> Moderated by Joe Schwarcz PhD, Director, 平特五不中 Office for Science and Society</p> <p><strong>Participants:</strong></p> Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:11:54 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 7821 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/news/food-babe-decoded-243591 <p>Vani Hari, who goes by the alias 鈥淭he Food Babe鈥� has become a real social phenomenon. She blogs, appears on TV and has just come out with a book that quickly made it to the New York Times best seller list. She has lots of followers and lots of critics, including myself. I don鈥檛 disagree with her goal of improving people鈥檚 eating habits. I just disagree with the methods used. Irrational fear-mongering is not the way to go. "There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever," she says.</p> Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:39:57 +0000 alexandra.pires-menard@mail.mcgill.ca 1298 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-history-news-quirky-science-toxicity/beer-foam-and-artificial-hips <p>Forty eight years ago there was an epidemic of heart failure in Quebec City. The clue was that the thirty men affected were all beer drinkers. In a round about way, the culprit was the introduction of a new dish washing detergent that left a residue on glasses. Detergent is the enemy of foam on beer and brewers countered the problem by adding a foam boosting agent, cobalt sulphate, to their product. It seems the potential toxicity of the cobalt compound was not considered. It should have been because cobalt affects the heart and causes heart failure.</p> Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:04:57 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2108 at /oss /oss/article/controversial-science-diets-food-health-supplements-you-asked/you-asked-fish-really-brain-food <p>Is fish really brain food? P.G. Wodehouse certainly thought so. In his wonderful 鈥淛eeves鈥� stories, Bertie Wooster encourages his brainy butler to eat more fish whenever a particularly challenging problem arises. But to what extent does fiction mirror real life? One can make a theoretical case for fish consumption based on the fact that docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, the famous omega-3 fat in fish, is the main component of brain cell membranes, and that communication between brain cells is a function of the integrity of these membranes.</p> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 05:07:15 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2188 at /oss /oss/channels/news/canada-am-251016 <p>Dr. Joe sits down with Bev Thomson on Canada AM and chats about his new book, "Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules."</p> <p>Click <a href="http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.2368324">here</a> to see the full interview.</p> Tue, 12 May 2015 20:41:16 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 1313 at /oss /oss/channels/event/2015-trottier-symposium-question-evidence-vaccines-gmos-and-cell-phones-248141 <p>In the Information Age, how can you discern legitimate science from cherry-picked data, opinion posing as fact, association confused with cause and effect, bogus advice from self-appointed experts, misused statistics, and even fraud?</p> Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:37:44 +0000 alexandra.pires-menard@mail.mcgill.ca 1306 at /oss /oss/channels/event/trivia-and-smoked-meat-night-prof-david-harpp-243722 <p><strong>General information:</strong><br /> Description:聽 What is the name of the musical based on a world-famous Montreal smoked meat delicatessen?<br /> Who is the longest serving prime-minister in Canadian history?<br /></p> Sat, 21 Mar 2015 00:15:28 +0000 alexandra.pires-menard@mail.mcgill.ca 1302 at /oss