Your hosts this week are Lynn, Levon and Marc
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Hospitals are supposed to be sanctuaries of healing, and this includes during times of war.
Indeed, under the United Nations Geneva Convention it is illegal in wartime to attack hospitals. medical staff, or those seeking medical help.
Unfortunately, this is now happening all too often, and with a couple of incidents recently in Syria and elsewhere
The international agency, Doctors Without Borders, is calling on the United Nations to take action to stop this before it gets even worse.
Lynn spoke with Stephen Cornish,the executive director of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres Canada
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Exercise to get fit and stay healthy, that’s always been the goal.
Usually this has meant long hours working out at the gym. But with today’s lifestyles, those hours are harder to come by.
Lately a new trend has developed. It’s called “high-intensity interval training”. Some call it the “one minute workout”. What it involves is short bursts of high intensity workouts, instead of long moderate workouts. The idea is that you get as much benefit from short intense effort as you do from the longer moderate workouts.
But can it really do what it claims? Can you really “get in shape” through one minute workouts?
Levon spoke to lead researcher of a new study, Marin Gibala of McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario.
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When we think of what pirates might look or sound like, the image might be strongly influenced by one British actor of the 1950’s, Robert Newton, who exaggerated his own southwest English accent to create a “pirate” accent.
Most of our impressions come from Tv and film, and it’s mostly wrong. In fact, most pirates careers were fairly short, only a few years, before they were either killed, hung, or simply gave up and went back to regular seafaring.
Only a few captains ever made a lot of money, and they didn’t bury it.
Marc spoke with Andy Parnaby, history professor at Cape Breton University and began by asking about pirate speech.
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