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Another hot summer is predicted for 2024. When the temperature rises to levels that can be dangerous, health advice is often to stay hydrated and be aware of signs of heat stress. But heat hazards go beyond physical health.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Peter Crank of University of Waterloo writes about how extreme heat can affect mental health. Beyond making people irritable and sleepless, heat waves can have devastating effects on people living with mental illnesses.
“From my research in Phoenix, Ariz. and the work of others during the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia, we know that the heat is exacerbating existing mental illnesses, increasing likelihoods of hospitalization and even death under warmer conditions for people with schizophrenia,” Crank writes.
Also today:
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The downtown Vancouver skyline is silhouetted at sunset during a heat wave in July 2022.
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Peter Crank, University of Waterloo
Extreme heat will continue to affect Canada, but the negative impacts on the most vulnerable, including those living with mental illness, can be reduced by taking steps to ensure healthier cities.
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The prehistoric movement of creatures onto land required the skin of prehistoric aquatic animals to adapt.
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Tea Maho, University of Toronto; Ethan D. Mooney, University of Toronto
Fossilized skin belonging to an amniote was recently discovered. The skin was so well-preserved, that its cellular structures could be identified.
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Indiana Fever forward Aliyah Boston shoots between Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas and forward DeWanna Bonner in the second half of a WNBA basketball game in Indianapolis, on May 20, 2024.
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Shannon Kerwin, Brock University; Cheri L. Bradish, Toronto Metropolitan University; Meg Popovic, Toronto Metropolitan University
To say that women’s sport in North America is thriving is an understatement. The question, now, is how these leagues can sustain and build upon their success.
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Graduates listen during a convocation ceremony at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, B.C., in May 2022.
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Jonathan Malloy, Carleton University; Lisa Young, University of Calgary; Loleen Berdahl, University of Saskatchewan
Canada needs the arts, with its insights into human behaviour and thinking, more than ever. But governments and funding agencies should shift funding models for arts graduate education.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns from a break in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York.
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Francis Dupuis-Déri, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
The intersectionality of hate, which combines racism, antisemitism and misogyny, leads the white heterosexual male to believe that he is a victim of the “minorities” he must resist.
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L'action gouvernementale face aux crises qui se multiplient doit être éclairée par les données probantes.
La Presse canadienne/Ryan Remiorz
John N. Lavis, McMaster University; Mathieu Ouimet, Université Laval
Confrontés à de multiples crises, les gouvernements peuvent s’appuyer de 5 façons sur les preuves scientifiques afin de leur faire face.
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Arts
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John Atkin, Loughborough University
As a war artist, Henry Moore’s work was influenced by the Blitz, separated families and the threat of nuclear escalation.
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Business + Economy
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Eddy Ng, Queen's University, Ontario
The seemingly complimentary stereotype undermines Asian Americans in the workplace and beyond.
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Science + Tech
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Ben Hirsch, James Cook University
The bigger the brain, the better we are at finding fruit. But is that true? A new study on wild primates refutes this idea.
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