Your hosts, Lynn, Levon, and Marc
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Imagine conducting complex and important health-related experiments, but using an incorrect level of one important parameter.
It seems like scientists and researchers around the world conducting tests in cellular biology, drug development, cancer treatments and many more. have been doing that for decades.
Researchers in cellular biology at the University of Guelph made what could be a revolutionary observation.
They realized that for years scientists have been conducting research in the lab at atmospheric oxygen levels, but cells in the body deal with vastly lower oxygen levels and in conducting a simple well-known experiment, but at the “new” physiological oxygen level, they discovered something entirely new in that experiment
Marc spoke to Jim Uniacke (PhD) of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph.
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It’s 7pm (19h) and you’ve just finished supper and are about to do the dishes, when your mobile buzzes or rings. It’s a text message or phone call about something at work. Again.
This happens a lot, and more an more often. Employees at all levels of a business or enterprise often feel compelled to reply after work hours, and a general ethic is being developed that people should always be “reachable” about work issues, after hours.
Lynn spoke to Rhonda McEwen, an assistant professor of new media at the University of Toronto who says the practice can actually be counter-productive.
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My how time flies. This year marks the 50th anniversary of a revolutionary “new” television series, ‘Star Trek”.
The main character was the captain of the intergalactic space vessel, Enterprise, none other than Canadian actor, William Shatner.
To mark the occasion, Canada’ mint is releasing a series of commemorative coins.
Levon contacted Alexander Reeves who is the spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mint in the Canadian capital, Ottawa.
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We also feature a Canadian song, this edition, a tune by Alberta singer-songwriter Tim Hus.
With the recent giant wildfire which destroyed about 10 percent of the town of Fort McMurray, we present Tim’s song called “Mountain Fire”.
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