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Dion's wife goes rogue: Family spat spells more PR misery for Liberals

J anine Krieber, the wife of former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, is known for being blunt and outspoken, but her online outburst over the weekend about how the party is heading for the "trashcan of history" left the Liberals and Leader Michael ...

From ANNE MCILROY AND JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

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Researchers find hundreds of unknown marine species

R esearchers exploring the deep ocean have discovered hundreds of species unknown to science, including strange worms, crustaceans and other creatures that live beyond the reach of the sun’s rays. The scientists used cameras, sonar and other equipment ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  22 Nov 2009

Slow, but staggering progress

H is voice is raspy, the words come slowly. Trevor Greene says it is because he no longer has the reflex to breathe before he speaks, so he has to remind himself constantly to take in air while he talks. Yet that he speaks at all, let alone in front of ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2009

Mental giants

W hen it opened its doors 75 years ago, the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital was a grand scientific and medical experiment designed to learn more about the brain and the diseases that afflict it. Founding director Wilder Penfield wanted to ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

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The link between exercise and good grades

I t is first period at City Park Collegiate Institute in Saskatoon, and the Grade 10 students in Allison Cameron's class are priming their brains for an English assignment. They strap heart monitors on their wrists and climb on a treadmill or exercise ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2009

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Why boys need Barbies – and girls need footballs

L ise Eliot set out to write a book that would chart how the brains of boys and girls develop differently. But when the Chicago-based neurobiologist reviewed the scientific literature, she found surprisingly little evidence of sex differences in the ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  23 Oct 2009

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Do animals have personalities?

Y ou can tell a lot about the personality of a bighorn sheep by trying to wrestle one to the ground. The aggressive animals, like the ram nicknamed Psycho, put up a fight every time. The docile ones never require a half-nelson: They freeze as soon as ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  9 Oct 2009

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Meet Ardi, a mother to all humanity

S CIENCE REPORTER Her bones were so fragile some of them crumbled when they were touched. Her skull had been flattened and parts of her skeleton had been broken into more than 100 pieces. Still, researchers working in northeastern Ethiopia knew they had ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  2 Oct 2009

Oldest hominid skeleton discovered

A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton discovered in northeastern Ethiopia suggests our ancestors were never knuckle-draggers and that they didn't look much like chimpanzees. The first crumbling bones were unearthed in 1992, but it has taken an international ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Natural History

Scientists unveil skeleton of oldest hominid

H er bones were so fragile some of them crumbled when they were touched. Her skull had been flattened and parts of her skeleton had been broken into more than 100 pieces. Still, researchers working in northeastern Ethiopia knew they had made a stunning ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  1 Oct 2009

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