The NOlympics Anywhere movement: how local anti-Olympic resistance went global
A new academic chapter traces how scattered local resistance to Olympic Games hosting evolved into a coordinated transnational movement — and examines what it would take to turn protest into structural change at the IOC. The chapter, “NOlympics Anywhere: Building
How Canadian media covers renoviction — and what it misses
A new study published in Housing Studies has examined how Canada’s mainstream print media frames renovictions — the practice of evicting tenants under the guise of renovation — finding that coverage has grown alongside the housing crisis but often stops
B.C. Ends Clock Changes, Adopts Permanent Daylight Saving Time
British Columbia is done with the twice-yearly ritual of clock-changing. After the spring-forward on March 8, the province will never fall back again. The B.C. government announced Monday that the province will permanently adopt daylight saving time — effectively locking
Even Tiny Amounts of Altruism Can Stop Epidemics, Game Theory Study Finds
A new mathematical study has found that people don’t need to be saints to justify staying home when they’re sick. In fact, caring about others even a tiny amount — valuing your own life as roughly equivalent to 100,000 strangers
Rigid protocols can hinder firefighting teams during crises, study finds
When emergencies take unexpected turns, the teams that communicate most explicitly tend to perform best — even if rigid protocols previously guided their actions, new research shows. A study published in Organization Science examined how firefighting teams adapt when disruptive
Pro-gun PACs spike spending 2,820% after fatal school shootings near Election Day, Stanford study finds
When a fatal school shooting occurs in a US congressional district, pro-gun political action committees respond by flooding the affected race with campaign cash — and if the shooting happens close to Election Day, the spending surge is staggering, according
Bilingual brains use one shared meaning system for both languages, but each language reshapes it, study finds
Bilingual people use largely the same brain system to understand meaning in both their languages, but each language subtly reshapes how that system processes different categories of words, according to new research from UC Berkeley. The study, published Monday in
European courts converging on principle that landlords have no right to maximum profit, study finds
Courts across Europe are increasingly ruling that landlords have no constitutional right to maximum profits from rental housing — a legal shift that a new academic paper argues represents a broader counter-movement against neoliberal property politics. The paper, published in
Study warns property-rights arguments on both sides of zoning debate limit housing reform
A new academic study argues that the moral arguments used by both pro-development and anti-development advocates in Vancouver and Toronto’s zoning battles are rooted in property logics that ultimately limit the scope of housing reform. The paper, published in the
Electronic nose detects ovarian cancer in blood with 97% accuracy, 100% at patient level
A device that essentially “smells” cancer in a drop of blood has demonstrated near-perfect accuracy in detecting ovarian cancer, according to new research published in Advanced Intelligent Systems. The electronic nose — a 32-sensor array that detects volatile organic compounds
