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The power of positivity

  • April 14, 2020
  • Lee.Downs
Psychologist Lea Waters talks about the importance of positive emotions and how we can all STAY POSITIVE during the pandemic. The same series of videos also has Behavioural Psychologist...

Look for the helpers

  • April 14, 2020
  • Lee.Downs
Mr. Rodgers’s mother gave him fantastic advice when she said, “Always look for the HELPERS.” For those wanting to go further, here’s a list of Toronto VOLUNTEER opportunities, including...

Become a virtual explorer

  • April 14, 2020
  • Lee.Downs
Take a virtual tour of the ROM; access the AGO from home; engage with ideas, play and learn, tour the collections, and watch and listen by going to the...

A cuttlefish goes to the movies

  • February 25, 2020
  • Lee.Downs
Virtual reality is not just for humans. Did you know that cuttlefish can watch movies in 3D? Scientists from the University of Minnesota put tiny 3D glasses on cuttlefish...

Do you know this person?

  • January 8, 2020
  • Lee.Downs
A colleague recently asked me to go to a site called thispersondoesnotexist.com. I clicked on the link, and what came up was a photograph of a person—refreshing the link brought...

Machine learning—also for the bats

  • November 4, 2019
  • Lee.Downs
Neuroecologist, Yossi Yovel and his team modified a machine learning algorithm, so they could analyze how Egyptian fruit bats communicate. The result? Bats speak to each other as individuals—and...

A life well lived—and loved

  • November 4, 2019
  • Lee.Downs
We wanted to draw your attention to one of the most lovingly crafted (and humorous) obituaries we’ve ever come across. His daughters wrote and published it in The Hartford...