/oss/taxonomy/term/80/all en /oss/events/trottier-symposium/baffled-scrutinizing-trendy-science <p style="text-align:center"><img alt="Trottier 2024 poster" height="1500" width="2667" style="width: 650px; height: 366px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/oss/files/oss/fb_cer8207_trottier_24__0.png" /></p> <p><strong>Date:</strong> Monday, Sept. 23rd<br /> <strong>Time: </strong>7:00 PM<br /> <strong>Location:</strong> 平特五不中, Leacock Building - Rm 132 (attached to the 平特五不中 Arts Building) - 855 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7</p> Wed, 19 Jun 2024 18:37:52 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 9983 at /oss /oss/events/trottier-symposium/trottier2023 <p style="text-align:center"><img alt="poster for symposium" height="478" width="850" style="width: 850px; height: 478px;" class="file-original " src="/oss/files/oss/cer5466_trottier_23_website.jpg" /></p> <hr /> <h2>Symposium Schedule</h2> <p><em>All events will take place in Moyse Hall in the 平特五不中 Arts Building</em></p> <h2>WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13th聽</h2> <h4><strong>1:30 PM EST: Roundtable discussion moderated by Joe Schwarcz</strong></h4> <p><strong><em>This event will NOT be live-streamed but made available for viewing afterward.</em></strong></p> Tue, 23 May 2023 18:30:28 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 9516 at /oss /oss/events/trottier-symposium/trottier2022 <p style="text-align:center"><img height="1396" width="2500" style="width: 600px; height: 335px;" class="file-original " src="/oss/files/oss/youtube_trottier_0.png" alt="" /></p> Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:26:56 +0000 joyce.peralta2@mcgill.ca 9134 at /oss /oss/events/trottier-symposium/symposium-photo-gallery/science-life-and-death <p><img height="3219" width="3600" style="width: 900px; height: 805px;" class="file-original " src="/oss/files/oss/cer793_select_a.png" alt="" /></p> Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:24:45 +0000 ada.mcvean@mail.mcgill.ca 8887 at /oss /oss/events/trottier2019/trottier2020 <p>This is the age of the pandemic. And that is truly terrifying. But it is also the age of the 鈥渋nfodemic,鈥� and that too has some chilling features. We are relentlessly bombarded by a tsunami of information, the reliability of which is often questionable, especially when the source is social media. When it comes to controversial issues, be it in the area of medicine, nutrition, or environmental concerns, bloggers and politicians with sketchy relevant backgrounds are as likely to throw their hat into the ring as scientific experts.</p> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 21:44:38 +0000 emily.shore@mcgill.ca 8297 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/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/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/reviews/top-articles-2017-chosen-you <p><span>From <a href="/oss/article/technology-health-and-nutrition/what-vitro-meat">petri-dish hamburgers</a> to <a href="/oss/article/did-you-know-history/corn-flakes-were-created-stop-masturbation">anti-masturbation corn flakes</a>, 2017 has been an interesting year at the OSS. Going through our website, and selecting聽our favourite and craziest science stories was no easy task.</span></p> Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:13:24 +0000 OSS 6842 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-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 /oss/article/health/when-it-comes-insomnia-theres-no-shortage-advice <p><span>O sleep! O gentle sleep! /聽</span><span>Nature鈥檚 soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, /聽</span><span>That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down /聽</span><span>And steep my senses in forgetfulness?</span></p> Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:31:53 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2127 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/cosmos-joe-schwarcz-win-skeptics-critical-thinking-prize-253900 <p>聽</p> <p>The 2014 Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, an award for excellence in the promotion of science and reason, was given this year to the creators, producers, and writers of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, and to Dr. Joe Schwarcz for his book Is That a Fact? The Balles Prize is given annually by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), publisher of the magazine Skeptical Inquirer.</p> Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:05:12 +0000 alexandra.pires-menard@mail.mcgill.ca 1316 at /oss