Professors Peterson and de Sousa debate “Living Without the Sacred”
Philosopher Ronald de Sousa and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson debate Living Without the Sacred: Should John Lennon’s Imagine Become Our Reality? The debate was hosted by the University of...
View ArticleImportance of Primary Healthcare
Research shows that the main factor in improving the health of a population is good primary healthcare. That’s why the University of Toronto decided to concentrate on training primary healthcare...
View ArticleSecuring Cyberspace
Securing Cyberspace: How well protected are you online? How can we secure cyberspace while maintaining the innovation that an open internet continues to provide?
View ArticleMaking Contact
An important challenge facing modern societies is to better understand those who aren’t like us. Contact theory – the idea that making contact with groups of a different cultural or social background...
View ArticleLee Bartel: Music as Medicine
Music therapy is often thought of as a tool to provoke an emotional reaction from patients and allow their brain to accomplish tasks in a different way. But Lee Bartel says it offers much more than...
View ArticlePresident David Naylor discusses research and innovation
When the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation asked President David Naylor for his expertise and insight on innovation hubs and what makes them successful, he was happy to use...
View ArticleResearchers discuss their Polanyi-award winning research in gene-splicing
Profs. Brendan Frey of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department Electrical and Computer Engineering and Benjamin Blencowe of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the...
View ArticleNSERC Presents 2 Minutes with Geoffrey Hinton
The staggering volume of data available today has generated a growing need for automated systems that can spot patterns, learn from examples, understand the “big picture” and make predictions. This...
View ArticleNSERC Presents 2 Minutes with Richard Peltier
What do our planet’s interior, surface plate tectonics, the life cycle of glaciers, and ocean circulation have in common? Quite a bit, as demonstrated by Richard Peltier, who recognized early in his...
View ArticleTwo minutes with Stephen Cook
U of T computer scientist Stephen Cook is the winner of the 2012 Natural Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Gerhard Herzberg Medal. He chatted with NSERC about his illustrious career.
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