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Towers of Song
A U of T music grad runs an innovative program to bring affordable music lessons to Regent Park youth
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Pathways’ Progress
A homework support program involving OISE students has more than doubled high school graduation rates in Regent Park
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Moustache Maven
Professor Allan Peterkin is the world’s leading facial-hair expert
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Arms and the Prehistoric Man
Discovery suggests human ancestors began hunting with stone-tipped spears far earlier than previously thought
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Apocalypse How?
The world will end, just probably not this year, University of Toronto experts say
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Welcome to the “Apopalypse”
The fascination with end times is everywhere in pop culture - including that Britney Spears song on your iPod
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Fine Art in Fabric
Art history prof Alexandra Palmer goes BIG with a ROM textile exhibition
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Voter Inequality
In a federal election, why does a vote from Charlottetown count for more than one from Markham?
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Tossing a Coin
The Royal Canadian Mint has finally produced its last penny. Is it time to get rid of the nickel, too?
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Energy Superpower – or Underachiever?
Canada must co-ordinate its energy research better if it wants to be a global player, according to a U of T report
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A Shift in Perception
Discoveries in brain science are prompting new theories about how our senses work – and how they affect our understanding of the world
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Subway to Mecca
The Saudi Arabian city is wrestling with a transit problem of Koranic proportions
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Revolutionary Road
Forty years ago, an intrepid group of professors and students sparked progress for women across U of T
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The Joe College-Betty Coed Consciousness-Raising Blues
Myrna Kostash reflects upon the new women's studies course at the University of Toronto in a 1972 Miss Chatelaine article
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Labour Days
Chinese propaganda posters from the 1960s celebrate work as an act of nation-building
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Clear and Present Danger
ABC correspondent Muhammad Lila reports from Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Scholarship Honours Toronto Developer
Friends and family of the late Paul Oberman have created an award for architecture and urban design
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Flood Control
As New Orleans rebuilds, U of T students are helping the city rethink its approach to water management
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Politics and the One Per Cent
What effect will unlimited corporate spending have on the U.S. election?
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Anti-Prejudice Campaigns Can Backfire
They may have reverse effect of what they intend, U of T Scarborough psychologists find
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I’ll Rassle You for a Dozen Up!
Small-town Ontario English preserves older terms that have fallen out of use in the province’s larger cities
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Bad Drivers?
U of T study shatters myth that recent immigrants cause more car accidents than other Canadians
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Marshall’s Laws
Fifty years after the publication of his most famous works, we’re still making sense of all Marshall McLuhan had to say
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Mind Games
Doctors have been trying for decades to classify mental illnesses. So why do precise definitions still elude us?
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Always the Victim?
A criminology student questions long-standing assumptions about women and domestic violence
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Europe’s Debt Troubles
With the markets betting on a Greek default, and the situation in Spain deteriorating, a second global financial crisis looms
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Caring for the Elderly
Women often look after their older relatives – for no pay. As populations age, this may have to change
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The Watchman
Human rights researcher Samer Muscati helps Iraqis find justice in a nation beginning to rebuild
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Still Life
Pictures of animals through history reveal how our thinking about them has changed
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Arab Spring
Will the uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East usher in lasting change?
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Setting the Scene
Professor Dan Silver comes up with a new way of looking at cities
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What Is Sacred?
Two U of T thinkers debate whether we can ever know what is truly "right" or "wrong"
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True North
What does Canada stand for now? Have we lost our international reputation as a nature-loving, peacekeeping haven for newcomers?
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100 Million Canadians
Could Canada's path to superpower status be a number's game?
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The Debut
How do you write a bestselling first novel? If you're Tom Rachman, you start by majoring in film
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Islam and the Bible
What do Arabic translations of Christianity’s holy book reveal about three of the world’s great religions?
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A Cure for Red Tape
Instead of fighting bureaucratic inefficiency, why not go around it?
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Funemployment
Sometimes, being unemployed can be positive - it depends on who you ask
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Body Double
A U of T team finally settles the question of where Tom Thomson was buried
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The Living City
Engineers are using the idea of "urban metabolism" to design more sustainable neighbourhoods
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Different but Equal
Toronto parents can choose to send their children to a variety of specialized schools. But is it possible to have too much choice in alternative education?
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New Year’s Revolution
A proposed new calendar would give February an extra week and start every month on a Monday.
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How Cities Compare
Urban centres have a huge impact on their residents’ well-being. So how can we make them better?
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The Fallen
Joanne Tod is painting portraits of every Canadian soldier who has died in Afghanistan
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Overqualified − and Stressed Out
Immigrants who are overqualified for their Canadian jobs might not just be bored. Their mental health might be suffering as well
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What Toronto Needs
A real transit strategy, a solution to its financial troubles, better urban design – and mayoral candidates willing to discuss these things
