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Picture this: you are scrolling through your social media with your morning coffee, see a news article that sounds interesting and click/tap on it. You are partway through enjoying the first paragraph when… Wait! Subscribe now to see the rest of the article! Then and only then you look up to realize you are onContinue reading “Pressreader, A Hidden Perk of York’s Tuition”

The first time I ever learned about differences in the primary, secondary or tertiary sources of literature was in one of my second year Biology course. Primary and secondary sources can easily be found online but some reliable databases to find them are PubMed, Google scholar, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics etc PrimaryContinue reading “Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources”

Locust, (family: Acrididae), group of insects that are distributed on the global scale, and mainly referred to the group of short-horned grasshoppers. The specie often increases in numbers and migrate long-distances in destructive swarms. Normally, these grasshoppers are not harmful and do not pose serious threat to agriculture. However, under suitable conditions of drought followedContinue reading “Desert Locust outbreak: A major hunger threat in East Africa”

The Common Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) is native to Europe and is also known as European Buckthorn and is an invasive species in Canada (from Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan). The species was introduced in Canada around the 1880s and became widespread in the early 1900s as it was often used in hedgerows and windbreaks. In agriculture,Continue reading “Rhamnus Cathartica, an Invasive Species”

As we enter a period of ever deepening climate crisis it becomes increasingly important to understand the ways in which our current food system is susceptible to breakdown, and to act in ways that strengthen it.  Our existing food distribution system is dominated by very large for profit actors. More than 80% of the groceryContinue reading “Big Food is a Big Problem”

During the last 15 minutes of one of the interviews to doctor Dawn Bazely, she suggested the scientific community to think of Science as a political tool. There are several historical examples that we can recall to help support this argument, making it almost surprising to believe some people still think of science as theContinue reading “Science is Political”

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia in the Holy Empire of Roman Empire on 14 September 1769. Humboldt travelled extensively throughout the Americas and became known as one of the most famous scientific names in all of Europe during his era. After his research journeys, he returned toContinue reading “The Story of Alexander von Humboldt”

My second nomination for the film festival was the movie “The Lorax.” This movie not only focuses on the importance of plants and trees but also shows how it takes only one individual to encourage others. The fact that this movie is animated encourages people from all age groups to understand such an important messageContinue reading “Alternative film: The Lorax”

Firstly I’d like to start by thanking every single person ever who has edited a Wikipedia page. As a person who frequently (don’t pretend like you don’t use it too) uses Wikipedia as my quick go-to for answers, when I was assigned the task to edit a page of my choice, I was baffled. It’sContinue reading “Becoming a Wikipedian”

While many of us usually go Wikipedia as a quick access to find facts, or a quick fact check, in the academic world it has been engraved in us that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information. This is because of the mere fact that just anybody can create an account and edit theContinue reading “Becoming a Wikipedian”