Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The search of the day (June 25)



Globe and Mail (20 JUNE 2014) The tide is turning in Canadians’ big debt runup

Globe and Mail (19 JUNE 2014) Air pollution linked to cognitive decline

Victor Lavy, Avraham Ebenstein, and Sefi Roth.  The impact of air pollution on cognitive performance and human capital formation.  (SEPT 2012)

Science Daily (13 FEB 2012) Air pollution linked to cognitive decline.

A large, prospective study led by a researcher at Rush University Medical Center indicates that chronic exposure to particulate air pollution may accelerate cognitive decline in older adults. The results of the study will be published in the Feb. 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Globe and Mail (19 JUNE 2014) Eco-friendly jobs in Vancouver increase over past three years

Globe and Mail (19 JUNE 2014) Aboriginals search for companies with a social conscience, study shows

Globe and Mail (2 JUNE 2014) Consumers demanding better corporate behavior

Globe and Mail (20 JUNE 2014) The art of making learning fun with drama, music and visual arts

At St. Anne’s School in northern Alberta, teachers are stepping away from the chalkboard and using creative new techniques to teach the most confusing parts of the curriculum.

Sometimes this means using elaborate charades to act out examples of literary tools such as similes, metaphors and personification. Or turning a tarp into a giant Cartesian grid, laying it on the floor and getting the students to use mathematical equations to move between co-ordinates. Or explaining the food chain through a break-dancing competition – insects do a simple step and shuffle, apex predators must perform a more demanding move like the worm.

Globe and Mail (21 JUNE 2014) The road to better transportation is paved with confusion

Globe and Mail (21 JUNE 2014) We feel attacked and slighted
BC Teachers are not alone in failing to reach agreement with province.  Other teachers across the country are facing their own battles.

Globe and Mail (21 JUNE 2014) Canada’s Pacific Rim Blindness
As the economics of China and other Asian countries have flourished, Iain Marlow reports that most Canadians have actually grown cooler toward the idea of closer ties with them

Vancouver Sun (21 JUNE 2014) Collision of man and machine
Review of Tom Rachman’s The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Vancouver Sun (20 JUNE 2014) Today’s jobs can be hard on your head

Work Safe BC – Mental health in the workplace

Globe and Mail (23 JUNE 2014) Thousands of Ottawa bureaucrats fail phishing scam test

Globe and Mail (23 JUNE 2014) Girls are more than the sum of their parts

The Telegraph (22 JUNE 2014) How stress damages the heart

Science (22 JUNE 2014) How stress can clog your arteries

Huffington Post (23 JUNE 2014) How chronic stress leads to heart attack and stroke

JWT Intelligence (24 JUNE 2014) The Circular Economy

JWT Intelligence (21 AUG 2013) Anxiety Index 2013 Global Report

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