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Are you a Toronto Raptors fan? If so, you’ll enjoy today’s piece in The Conversation Canada on how NBA salary caps make it difficult for the team to attract elite players. Also a problem? The city’s icy winters and high Canadian taxes, according to Vinu Selvaratnam of the University of Waterloo, who argues against the salary caps.
Technological advances are moving at a swift pace and engineering education is having trouble keeping up. Paulo Garcia of Carleton University is calling for a revised approach to how engineering is taught.
In another education-themed story, Ehsan Akbari of Concordia University points out that smartphones are here to stay. He calls on art teachers to explore using them mindfully for visual and aural self-expression.
And speaking of the power of art, you don’t want to miss the compelling and very personal piece from Stacey Wilson-Forsberg of Wilfrid Laurier University, who spent time with Central American migrants living in limbo in a Mexican shelter. She explains how many of the men use art therapy to help with their anxiety.
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Toronto Raptors’ star Kawhi Leonard, who will likely be a free agent soon, is seen in a recent game. NBA salary caps make it difficult for the Raptors to attract elite players.
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Vinu Selvaratnam, University of Waterloo
The Toronto Raptors have the money to attract the NBA's top players. Here's why the league's salary caps makes that so difficult.
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Engineering education needs to keep up with technological advances.
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Paulo Garcia, Carleton University
Technological advances and discoveries are moving at a rate faster than engineering education can keep up with. The solution is a revised approach to teaching engineering.
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Attending to everyday surroundings can be shockingly pleasurable.
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Ehsan Akbari, Concordia University
Smartphones are here to stay, so why don't art teachers explore using them mindfully for visual and aural self-expression and to create intentional classroom communities?
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Central American asylum seekers paint murals on Casa Tochan, a refugee shelter in Mexico City.
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Stacey Wilson-Forsberg, Wilfrid Laurier University
A human rights researcher documents the stories of Central American migrants leaving behind endemic poverty and high homicide rates. In limbo in Mexico, many use art therapy to express their anxiety.
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Environment + Energy
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Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University
Life-threatening cold temperatures in the central US are caused by changes in wind circulation in the Arctic that bring cold air south. Climate change could make these events more frequent.
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Health + Medicine
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Sim K. Singhrao, University of Central Lancashire
We were the first to make the connection between P. gingivalis and fully diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease. While evidence of a link is growing, it must be interpreted in context.
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Politics
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David Bishai, Johns Hopkins University; Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, University of Michigan; James Lake, Southern Methodist University; Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
With Trump's State of the Union address delayed, we asked a few economists to cover for him, offering their takes on business investment, trade, health care economics and the national debt.
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