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Our most popular articles: Revealed
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Happy New Year!
Today The Conversation Canada is counting down our top 10 most-viewed stories from the past year.
We published almost 1,000 articles in 2018 and they were viewed about 16 million times. That’s an average of over 1.3 million views per month.
We are able to reach this large audience because our stories are republished by major media outlets here in Canada and around the world. Our republishers include: The Weather Network, Maclean’s, Global News, National Post, HuffPost, Smithsonian Magazine, CNN, PBS, Business Insider, Newsweek, TIME, Scientific American, Popular Science, Daily Mail and World Economic Forum.
Thank you to our authors, partners, readers and republishers.
We’ll be back in your Inbox tomorrow with our first stories of 2019, but now here’s the countdown of our top 10 most-viewed stories published in 2018.
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Lisa Varano
Audience Development Editor
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No. 10
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks past Ivanka Trump at the Women and Development event at the G20 summit in July 2017 in Germany.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Grant Dawson, University of Nottingham
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making a political career out of burnishing his self-image and convincing the world he's a human rights leader. Do his actions match his words?
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No. 9
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Gas prices usually rise heading into long weekends. The reasons behind wild oil price fluctuations, reflected at the pumps, is about a lot more than economics.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Atif Kubursi, McMaster University
Oil prices have little to do with supply or demand or even economic forces. Instead, it's all about politics.
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No. 8
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A large female Greenland shark observed near the community of Arctic Bay, Nunavut.
(Brynn Devine)
Brynn Devine, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Jonathan A. D. Fisher, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Using baited cameras scientists have captured some of the first underwater video footage of the elusive Greenland shark.
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No. 7
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A Toronto policeman is being praised for the way he apprehended a suspect who was accused of killing 10 people by driving a van onto a busy sidewalk.
Glenn Hanna, University of Guelph-Humber
The Toronto cop who apprehended the van attack suspect is being lauded internationally for refraining from using deadly force as he apprehended him. Here's how everything went right for the constable.
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No. 6
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Books such as Ayelet Waldman’s A Really Good Day and Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind have drawn popular attention to the practise of ‘microdosing’ psychedelics.
(Shutterstock)
Thomas Anderson, University of Toronto; Rotem Petranker, York University, Canada
According to new research, individuals who take small regular doses of psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms score higher on mental health, well-being and creativity.
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No. 5
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Rohingya Muslim women who fled Myanmar for Bangladesh stretch their arms out to collect aid distributed by relief agencies in this September 2017 photo. A campaign of killings, rape and arson attacks by security forces and Buddhist-aligned mobs have sent more than 850,000 of the country’s 1.3 million Rohingya fleeing.
(AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
Robert Huish, Dalhousie University; Patrick Balazo, Dalhousie University
Facebook is unwittingly helping fuel a genocide against the Rohingya people in Myanmar. Does Cuba’s internet model provide lessons to manage social media amid political chaos?
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No. 4
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Stink bug sightings are on the rise. In winter, they tend to move indoors to wait out the cold weather.
(John Slaney/Flickr)
Rosa da Silva, McMaster University
With the onset of cooler temperatures and shorter days, some insects pack-up and migrate to warmer climates. Others, including stink bugs, take up residence in our homes.
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No. 3
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Michael Arntfield, Western University
The arrest of former cop Joseph DeAngelo in the Golden State Killer case raises questions about the common occupations of killers and psychopaths. Canada's Russell Williams was a former military officer.
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A team of researchers in northern Australia have documented kites and falcons, “firehawks,” intentionally carrying burning sticks to spread fire: It is just one example of western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Knowledge.
James Padolsey/Unsplash
George Nicholas, Simon Fraser University
A double standard exists concerning the acceptance of Traditional Knowledge by practitioners of Western science.
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And the No. 1 most viewed story of 2018!
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Studies show that women reach climax less often than men do during sexual encounters together.
Matheus Ferrero/Unsplash
Gonzalo R. Quintana Zunino, Concordia University; Conall Eoghan Mac Cionnaith, Concordia University
Women report one orgasm for every three from men. Part of the problem might lie in what happens in the bedroom.
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