Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.
Today’s Top Pick - “Government of Canada Announces $450 Million in New Funding for BDC to Assist Canadian Businesses“. Find out more under Venture Capital. Read the rest of this entry »
Green and the city: Sheraton's Waterfall Garden in Toronto
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Seventeen years ago, Indian researcher Kamal Meattle (see his “TED in 3 Minutes” talk here) became allergic to New Delhi’s air when pollution had reduced his lung capacity by 70% and made him very sick. His subsequent research efforts led him to discover that there are three basic green plants to put in specific spots indoors in order to grow all the fresh air we need to stay healthy:
Canadians get a Cochrane library card
Last month, Canada joined Australia, Finland, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom in providing nationwide access to the Cochrane Library, a collection of evidence-based medicine reviews and a critical health sciences resource.
The current pilot project, which runs through the end of 2009, allows all Canadian users to access the complete Cochrane collection from any computer in the country. The Canadian Health Libraries Association reports that almost 40,000 Canadians were denied access to a Cochrane systematic review in 2007.
Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.
Today’s Top Pick - “IPO drought? Cleantech companies flood Canadian markets“. Find out more under Cleantech. Read the rest of this entry »
Amateur biohackers?
First there were computer hackers. Then life hackers, Ikea hackers and iPhone hackers. Now biohackers are having a moment.
DIYbio is an organization encouraging citizen scientists to take biology out of the lab and into the garage. Although critics warn that such experimentation could yield evil plots to synthesize deadly pathogens, the group’s early projects are decidedly less sinister: Bioweathermap, for example, maps the bacteria on crosswalk buttons from Boston to San Francisco.
Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.
Today’s Top Pick - “Winning the arms race over your cyber secret“. Find out more under Science and Innovation. Read the rest of this entry »
Ron Close, MaRS EIR
In the May 27th FP Executive Podcast, MaRS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ron Close (also an Executive Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario) talks about his entrepreneurial journey and his work at MaRS helping entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.
Today’s Top Pick - “A Drug-Dispensing Lens“. Find out more under Science and Innovation. Read the rest of this entry »
Mapping out the digital crowd
As visual forms of communication become an increasingly important part of the 21st-century media landscape, digital mapping tools offer exciting possibilities with a range of applications. Here are just a few recent examples — many of which are growing up in our own backyard.
Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.
Today’s Top Pick - “Top 5 North American regions targeting biotech.” Read the rest of this entry »
June is a research analyst at MaRS and a recent graduate of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.
