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Back home in British Columbia after spending the winter in Europe making his sport’s history, Reese Hodden is still struggling to achieve what he has achieved. At only twenty-two years old, he was at the pinnacle of his discipline and exploits already reverberating outside the world of cross-skating. “Unprecedented”. That’s how Victor Ducal, national team coach, described Houdin’s season, which ended with a Crystal Globe and FIS Rookie of the Year. With six podiums, including four victories, in 12 races on the World Cup circuit, he was able to climb to the top of the overall standings. Although Howden has…

aN particularly speaks of the British (B.1.1.7), South African (B.1.351) and Brazilian (P.1) variants: these are the so-called “disturbing” variants (in English, Variables of concern). But there are many other species that are less “of concern” or “variants of interest” – for example, their transmission rate does not appear to be higher than the transmission rate of the original strain. Evolutionary microbiologist von Cooper wrote on the journal’s website that they had more in common than abundance indicated. Scientific American. Studies on which have been identified signatures of what biologists call “evolutionary convergence”.This is what happens in animals when the…

So there we are … Posted April 4, 2021 at 9:00 am. Alexander SiroisJournalism To the extent that intolerance and hatred cause such damage on social networks, Quebec’s prime minister is forced to take a public outing to sound the alarm. To illustrate that the “hypothetical feared” multiplies insults and threats on his Facebook page. And they dread those leaving positive comments. We are talking about the man who is perhaps the most popular prime minister in Canada today. So the problem is not François Legault. The problem is Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook Big Head. The problem is that this thirty-year-old…

sAccording to the NPR broadcaster’s compilation, between January 1 and March 17, 2021, roughly every two days, it was “a story about a person who died after being vaccinated,” which was among the most popular articles on social media.To the point of introducing distortion: a private citizen’s Facebook feed can actually give them the impression that something interesting is happening.NPR is seizing the opportunity to recall that according to recent data from the US Center for Disease Control, lightning strikes are three times more likely to strike us.This aggregation invokes a fundamental dimension of disinformation: Not only is misinformation important,…

Posted on 2/4/2021 9:34 AM (Photo: 123RF) The Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP) has yet to see significant opposition to its $ 25 billion bid for Kansas City Southern, unlike some of its takeover attempts in the past. Wasatch Railroad Contractors, a railroad company in Wyoming, filed the only case before the US Surface Transportation Board opposing the deal. Its president and CEO, John Rimash, wrote that the merger would allow Canadian Railways to exercise a dominant monopoly in the United States and create the only railroad system with direct ownership of track rights in Canada, the United States and…

Do you think science and cooking are too far away? you are wrong ! “Cooking is scientific. When we cook, we use temperature, pressure, cold, and many physical factors. Cooking also means using physical and chemical reactions: oxidation, roasting, and gelation… Finally, the use of yeast in making wine or sauerkraut is organic.” Deciphering Raphael Humont, researcher in the physics and chemistry of materials and university professor at the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay) and author with chef Thierry Marx Innovation in the kitchen, 10 key ideas to innovate in the kitchenPublished by Editions Dunod (2021).”Science can be used to do…

Neglect from some dealers? Yeah. But also labor scarcity, the challenge of immigrants to integrate, and the indifference of some French-speaking clients are all factors involved when it comes to French in a small business in Montreal or elsewhere in Quebec. On the second floor of an old commercial building a stone’s throw from the Concordia University campus and Saint Catherine West Street in Montreal, the Ideal Nature Salon brims with whisper conversations in foreign languages. However, the owner instantly turns to French when he hears it. In his late 30s, tall and masked, as he should be, Jinhua Hu…

In the Balkans, disinformation has always been the honey of distrust in governments and institutions marred by corruption and lack of transparency.In Serbia, to find False newsJust open a tabloid that regularly predicts an imminent war. Theories of international conspiracies abound by enemies near and far in a region where politicians have mastered the art of distracting attention from the economic problems that have been chasing them since the wars of the 1990s.Zoran Radovanovic, a retired professor of epidemiology at the University of Belgrade, said that anti-vaccine theories spread “easily where confidence in authority is weak.” “In the Balkans, after…

aN particularly speaks of the British (B.1.1.7), South African (B.1.351) and Brazilian (P.1) variants: these are the so-called “disturbing” variants (in English, Variables of concern). But there are many other species that are less “of concern” or “variants of interest” – for example, their transmission rate does not appear to be higher than the transmission rate of the original strain. Evolutionary microbiologist von Cooper wrote on the journal’s website that they had more in common than abundance indicated. Scientific American. Studies on which have been performed identify the signatures of what biologists call “evolutionary convergence”.This is what happens in animals…

This week Janie Piqué became the first woman to hold the position of Fonds de Solidarité FTQ as the foundation witnesses a pivotal moment in its history. “Until recently, I was playing hockey and not afraid to go get in demon in the corner. M.I Pique’s interview magazine. “I’m a girl with a very high energy level,” she adds. […] For me, it is very important that people get involved. What I want is for our organization to invest more. Gitan [Morin, le précédent PDG] You have paved the way, but I want to accelerate our impact on society. “…