The Blue Hour Podcast
1) Tina Loo - On Canadian History
Why are certain people and places vulnerable? Who is responsible for remedying the situation? And what is fair? Why is historical research important? Tina Loo is a professor in the department of hist...Show More
2) Rashid Sumaila - On Fisheries and Economics
Why are the health of our oceans important for our survival? Why does it matter to find creative ways of protecting them? Rashid Sumaila is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary O...Show More
3) Dominique Weis on Geochemistry
How do geochemists study the chemical composition of earth? How do geochemists better our understanding of the earth's interior, natural resources, climate change, human impacts on the environments, a...Show More
4) Janice Eng on Stroke Recovery
What strategies are used to improve physical activity following a stroke? How is stroke research put into practise? What kinds of stroke recovery programs see the best outcomes?Janice Eng is a profess...Show More
5) Janice Eng - On Stroke Recovery
What strategies are used to improve physical activity following a stroke? How is stroke research put into practise? What kinds of stroke recovery programs see the best outcomes?Janice Eng is a profess...Show More
6) Katherine Bowers - On Dostoevsky
Who was Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky? Why did he have such an important influence in world literature? How is his work still revered and interpreted today? Why is Russian literature of the 19th cent...Show More
7) Jerilynn Prior on Perimenopause & Menopause
What is Perimenopause? What are later life ovulation disturbances? How can women better understand their menstrual cycles during all phases of their life?Jerilynn C. Prior is a Professor of Endocrinol...Show More
8) Shari Forbes - On Forensic taphonomy
Shari L. Forbes is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Forensic Thanatology at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). She is the Director of the first human taphonomy facility in Canada for Re...Show More
9) Bonny Norton - On multilingual literacy and identity
Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the turbulent apartheid years, Dr. Bonny Norton learnt at an early age the complex relationship between language, power, and identity. Now a Fellow of...Show More
10) Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter is an evolutionary biologist who studies adaptive radiation — the evolution of ecological diversity in groups of organisms that are multiplying rapidly. Dolph’s research suggests that e...Show More