Masala Canada - Saturday, February 4th 2012

Conversations with Ravida Din and Rajendhran Rajakumar
MASALA CANADA with WOJTEK GWIAZDA



On this edition of MASALA CANADA we talk about a new feature length documentary film from Canada’s world renowned public film producer and distributor, the National Film Board. The documentary is called “Pink Ribbons, Inc.” and the film’s director is Léa Pool. The film looks at how breast cancer has become the focus of huge and popular marketing campaigns that promote awareness of breast cancer, and at the same time promote the image and revenues of the corporations that support these campaigns. Just this past Friday the film got its theatrical release across Canada. To find out more, I talked to the National Film Board’s Ravida Din who is the Executive Producer and producer of “Pink Ribbons, Inc.”


And then I talk with Montreal researcher and doctoral student, Rajendhran Rajakumar. He’s part of a research team at Montreal’s McGill University, at the Abouheif Lab, headed by Dr Ehab Abouheif, the Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Development Biology. Rajakumar, Professor Abouheif, and several other researchers last month published an article in Science Magazine in which they describe their explorations of evolution, and how they stimulated the million years old capacity of some ants to become huge, supersoldier ants. We talk about how they did it, and how this will help us understand evolution.

WEB LINKS
Pink Ribbons, Inc. website – here
Sarah McLachlan music and info – www.sarahmclachlan.com
Supersoldier ant research – here

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