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1 month ago |
mcgill.ca | Joe Schwarcz
This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. The blades descend as they have done many times before, threatening to impale the magician’s assistant lying inside the box. But this time the outcome is different. The illusion has been tampered with so that one of the blades does not retract fully as designed and slightly pierces her skin. Nothing seems out of the ordinary until minutes later when the assistant collapses and dies.
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2 months ago |
seedworld.com | Joe Schwarcz
“Three thousand six hundred food packaging chemicals detected in human bodies: How reheating food is killing us.” That was the headline that greeted me last week from one of the news services to which I subscribe. There were many others in the same vein. I knew that a slew of emails from worried people would follow wanting to know what to make of this.
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Feb 10, 2025 |
seedworld.com | Joe Schwarcz
¿Un Arancel Sobre los Cacahuetes, Dices? Por qué es importante: La producción de maní en América Latina es un sector agrícola importante, con países como Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay como productores clave. Argentina es uno de los mayores exportadores de maní del mundo, en particular para los mercados de snacks y aceite. En Brasil, el cultivo de maní se concentra en las regiones del noreste, mientras que Paraguay también desempeña un papel crucial en la producción regional.
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Feb 8, 2025 |
rethinkingwellness.substack.com | Christy Harrison |Joe Schwarcz |Carrie Dennett
Welcome to another installment of the Rethinking Wellness link roundup! Here I’m offering a small collection of links from around the internet that are relevant to the conversations we have here, along with some quick takes and occasional deeper dives for paid subscribers. This time the take/dive is about whether zinc supplements are helpful for immunity, which I was personally invested in exploring because I’ve been sick so much this season.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
seedworld.com | Joe Schwarcz
Slap a tariff on peanuts! That was the decision arrived at by the U.S. Congress in 1921 after hearing testimony about how American peanut farmers were being undercut by imported peanuts from China. The witness was George Washington Carver who also expounded on all the uses to which peanuts could be put.
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It was a thrill for me to be a part of the evening!
To celebrate its 200th anniversary and as part of space week, @mcgillu organized a panel with 5 Canadian astronauts. Lots of great questions from the audience and Dr Joe Schwarcz of @McGillOSS was a brilliant moderator. Memorable! Photo credit @plateau_astro https://t.co/XaL0U61Fqi
Have the privilege of moderating “MADE In Space!” A panel with @mcgillu astronauts for Bicentennial #SpaceWeek. If you’re not in the room, (and there’s a lot of you here!), you can stream live: https://t.co/ku0oG6ft0Y