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Linking science and innovation  Standard business column

Linking science and innovation Standard business column

Popular belief says that scientific research leads to discoveries, these discoveries enable the development of new technology, and this new technology leads to production and the market. This mental model, the linear model of innovation, is attractively simple but dangerously simplified. Scientific research actually has a very limited role in industrial innovation. Technology aims to …

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The McMaster course works to simplify science.  Now the YouTube channel has 124,000 subscribers

The McMaster course works to simplify science. Now the YouTube channel has 124,000 subscribers

A complex topic explained in a simple, interesting way. This is the essence of the new YouTube channel, which doubles as a series of seminars for undergraduate students at McMaster University. Appropriately called Demystifying Medicine, the channel is a collection of short videos made entirely by students who bring contemporary perspectives for connecting the links …

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New CDC data sheds light on threats to young people’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic  CDC Online Newsroom

New CDC data sheds light on threats to young people’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic CDC Online Newsroom

New CDC analyzes released today shed additional light on the mental health of American high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the disproportionate level of threats experienced by some students. According to new data, in 2021, more than a third (37%) of high school students said they experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 …

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