The nose has it: Pheromones

The dramatic impact of Coronavirus outbreak on air quality: Has it saved as much as it has killed so far?

The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported from Wuhan, China, on December 31st, 2019. As the number of coronavirus infections has exceeded 100,000 with toll deaths of about 5000 worldwide as of early March, 2020, scientists and researchers are racing to investigate the nature of this virus and evaluate the short and long term effects of this disease. Despite it...

The Standard Metre: Has It Anything to Do With The Contingent A Priori

Asthma: the epidemic has ended, or has it?

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. A sthma, a chronic inflammatory lung condition with acute episodes of bronchoconstriction and exacerbation, is associated with considerable patient morbidity, a diminution of productivity, and an increase in health-care utilization. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, there was a clear perception that asthma ...

Dissatisfaction: how it has grown.

R ecent developments have highlighted the “greying” of health care providers in Canada. Not only are there fewer physicians and nurses available to deliver care, but those who are working tend to be older. The effect of this on health care delivery remains to be seen, but the number of people who are there to provide care, and their ability to continue to work the long hours necessitated by the...

The impact of Arctic warming on the midlatitude jet-stream: Can it? Has it? Will it?

The Arctic lower atmosphere has warmed more rapidly than that of the globe as a whole, and this has been accompanied by unprecedented sea ice melt. Such large environmental changes are already having profound impacts on the flora, fauna, and inhabitants of the Arctic region. An open question, however, is whether theseArctic changes have an effect on the jet-streamand thereby influenceweather pa...