Scuba enthusiasts: Your future dive buddy might not be human
Scuba enthusiasts: Your future dive buddy might not be human
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Corporeal meets ethereal: Provocative performance blends video, dance and virtual reality
Corporeal meets ethereal: Provocative performance blends video, dance and virtual reality
Words that empower: The transformation of Indigenous language dictionaries
Words that empower: The transformation of Indigenous language dictionaries
Just who are the winners and losers when biomedical advances eliminate death?https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/01/09/just-who-are-the-winners-and-losers-when-biomedical-advances-eliminate-death/
Just who are the winners and losers when biomedical advances eliminate death?
Mosquito sperm research could aid pest control strategies in deadly viruses
New research from the Faculty of Science suggests that influencing male mosquitoes’ reproductive capacity may, one day, hold the key to improved pest control strategies. Impeding some of the world’s most deadly viruses, spread by mosquitoes, could possibly be within reach, this research suggests. Mosquitoes (specifically, Aedes aegypti) carry a variety of pathogens causing diseases including Zika, […]
Words that empower: The transformation of Indigenous language dictionaries
A travelling exhibition on dictionaries and Indigenous languages, created by student curators at the Canadian Language Museum, traces the varied functions that dictionaries have played over 400 years. This interactive show also offers resources for the enrichment of Indigenous languages. The Canadian Language Museum at the Glendon Gallery Last fall, the Canadian Language Museum at […]
Corporeal meets ethereal: Provocative performance blends video, dance and VR
Professor Freya Björg Olafson’s body of work has been recognized as cutting edge on an international stage. This month, the intermedia artist in the Department of Dance premieres a new performance work in Winnipeg that promises to deliver a heady and immersive experience for all. The best contemporary art can’t be pigeonholed into one genre […]
Scuba enthusiasts: Your future dive buddy might not be human
Artificial Intelligence meets recreational sport: Pioneering Lassonde researchers are building robots that function underwater and can recognize the same hand gestures that conventional divers use to communicate with each other, while using the dive buddy system for safety. Research on responsive robots, programmed to help humans in some way and facilitate fast and effective human-robot […]
Just who are the winners and losers when biomedical advances eliminate death?
Philosophy Professor Regina Rini pens a provocative article in the UK-based Times Literary Supplement, which suggests that our near-descendants could live forever, thanks to biomedical breakthroughs. This would mean a moral crisis for the last generation facing death, she argues. Professor Regina Rini, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition and core […]
Urbanization article sums up existing thought, poses vital questions
The Director of the City Institute unpacks some critical debates in urbanization in a timely new article. This will be of interest to many in disciplines ranging from sociology to economics, geography to environmental studies; urban planners; and government stakeholders at all three levels. Urban studies is not what it used to be. Today, it […]