A borderless world will focus on cities

By Stephen Poloz

Have you ever looked at one of those satellite photos of the earth, taken at night? It is truly a remarkable sight, and full of economic meaning, besides.

What most people see when they look at these photos is the lights – literally billions of them. Of course, they also see massive areas of darkness. But what an economist sees is not the lights, but a map of economic activity. Dense clusters indicate intense economic activity. The photo reveals what might be referred to as economic gravity.

Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias

By SAM DILLON
Published: February 25, 2007

GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as a group of “daddy’s little princesses” and another as “offbeat hippies.” The sisters of Delta Zeta were seen as “socially awkward.”

Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.

Robarts courting UWO

Thu, February 8, 2007
The cash-strapped research institute is in merger talks.
By JOHN MINER, SUN MEDIA

Canada’s only independent research institute is talking merger with the University of Western Ontario after running into financial difficulty.

The board of the Robarts Research Institute, based in London, decided to approach UWO because research grants weren’t covering its costs.

Procrastination is a 4 letter word

The science of keeping up with yesterday
‘To actually not procrastinate takes planning, effort and will,’ expert says
DAWN WALTON

From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

CALGARY — Do not delay. Read this story now. Although I know some of you will likely never get to it, I understand. You have other things to do. Sleeping, watching television and checking e-mail.

But it’s not your fault.

“Procrastination is natural,”

Procrastination is a 4 letter word

The science of keeping up with yesterday
‘To actually not procrastinate takes planning, effort and will,’ expert says
DAWN WALTON

From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

CALGARY — Do not delay. Read this story now. Although I know some of you will likely never get to it, I understand. You have other things to do. Sleeping, watching television and checking e-mail.

But it’s not your fault.

Way to go, Schulich researchers!

Both women are faculty members at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario.

New Canadian technology tracks cancer’s spread

Updated Sat. Dec. 30 2006 10:47 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

When it comes to cancer, it often isn’t the initial tumour that kills. It’s the cancer cells that migrate and spawn new tumours. Now scientists at the Robarts Research Centre in London, Ontario, have devised a new way of following cancer cells as they spread that may help them learn how to stop them.

“to show that the Bible presents the true history of the world.”

Creation museum pushes ‘true history’
By Matthew Wells
BBC News, Kentucky

A new hi-tech temple to fundamentalist Christianity is due to open in the heart of Middle America next May, aiming to provide the grandest riposte yet to Darwinian evolutionary theory.
Staff and supporters of the Answers in Genesis organisation call it the Creation Museum.

But secular scientists would take issue with the use of either word to describe the almost completed building that stands just a few miles west of Cincinnati, on the borders of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

Tehran trip dismays colleagues

Tehran trip dismays colleagues
St. Francis Xavier prof presented paper at forum attended by Holocaust deniers
Dec. 14, 2006. 06:04 AM
MICHELE HENRY
STAFF REPORTER

Colleagues of a Canadian professor who spoke at a widely condemned conference in Tehran this week are outraged and dismayed by his presence at the event, which provided an open forum for Holocaust deniers.

Samuel Kalman, an assistant professor of European history at St. Francis Xavier University, was still reeling yesterday from the news that Shiraz Dossa, a political science professor at the Nova Scotia institution, attended the conference called “Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision,” which attracted the likes of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.