McGill Podcasts » Cutting Edge Lectures Podcast
1) Cutting Edge 2015: Development of Personalized Treatments for Chronic Pain – Luda Diatchenko
Approximately 20 per cent of Canadians suffer from chronic pain, making it not only the number one reason that people seek health care, but also the number one concern of patients with long-term illne...Show More
2) Biological Invasions – The Ecological and Societal Impacts of Non-native Species
Dr. Anthony Ricciardi talks about “biological invasions” and how they can cause extinctions, disrupt ecosystems, alter natural resources, threaten human health, and even pose national security problem...Show More
3) Witnessing the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
We live in a Universe of remarkable structure. From super-clusters of galaxies, tens of millions of light years across, to grand-design spiral galaxies and small rocky planets like Earth, structure ...Show More
4) Christie Rowe: In Search of the Source of Earthquakes
Speaker: Christie Rowe (Assistant Professor, Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University) Earthquakes happen every day all over the world. Most are concentrated along the boundaries of tect...Show More
5) Tim Geary: Medicines for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Reversing the Equation
More than a billion people, mostly in developing nations, still serve as hosts to roundworms. They are a source of diseases that often kill – yet medicines for these diseases have generally been...Show More
Tim Geary: Medicines for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Reversing the Equation
0:00 | Jul 27th, 2012
6) André Costopoulos: A diversity / tolerance model of cultural evolution
Professor Costopoulos argues that while humans are probably selected to have a limited ability to make good decisions. Under the ‘diversity-tolerance’ model of cultural evolution, humans are smart eno...Show More
7) Alan Evans: Non-invasive mapping of the human brain
As a specialist in three-dimensional modeling of the living brain, Alan Evans works to understand neurological pathologies inside-out: the natural history of a disease,” He asks: “What parts of the br...Show More
8) Elena Bennett: Feeding the world without destroying the planet
By Elena Bennett (Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill) Agricultural landscapes can provide many different ecosystem services, including food, high quality freshwater, op...Show More
9) Colin Chapman: Primate conservation: Is the cup half empty or half full?
Of the nearly 600 species and subspecies of primates living today, approximately half are in danger of going extinct. In fact, one subspecies in West Africa, Miss Waldron’s red colobus, is like...Show More
10) Elizabeth Jones: Blood Flow and Cardiovascular Development
Every tissue in the body requires blood flow to bring nutrients to the tissue. For this reason, there is significant therapeutic advantage to controlling when and where new blood vessels develop. If w...Show More