On Sept. 29, McMaster University held a public lecture about tracing the origins of the AIDS virus at the Health Sciences Centre. The inaugural public lecture was presented by Prof. Paul Sharp, an evolutionary geneticist from the University of Edinburgh on his research, which has spanned the past few decades. “I have been collaborating with […]
[feather_share show="twitter, google_plus, facebook, reddit, tumblr" hide="pinterest, linkedin, mail"] This marks the end of my second year writing for The Silhouette. Last year was the first time I ever got my feet wet in the world of sports writing. It was something I wanted to get into since high school and McMaster gave me a […]
[adrotate banner="16"] [feather_share show="twitter, google_plus, facebook, reddit, tumblr" hide="pinterest, linkedin, mail"] McMaster researcher Hendrick Poinar and an international team of researchers have uncovered telling secrets from the grave. The research focuses on the recovery of DNA from fossil remains such as teeth from individuals who died from the bubonic plague in Marseille, France. DNA sequences […]
[feather_share show="twitter, google_plus, facebook, reddit, tumblr" hide="pinterest, linkedin, mail"] It is always an admirable objective to make a difference in the world. But if this comes at the cost of perpetuating oppression, you need to ask yourself some tough questions. Specifically, voluntourism, or trips abroad to help people in “underdeveloped” countries, is wrong. It’s wrong […]
By: Abi Kirubarajan From Caribbean reggae to Indian raga, almost all music uses higher pitches for melodies while bass-ranged instruments manage the rhythm. Laurel Trainor, Director of McMaster’s Institute for Music and the Mind, set out to discover why this happens and what this means for music as a whole. Her team analyzed how humans detect […]
By: Amber Faith Miller To begin, you should know that I'm a third year student studying English and Theatre and Film. While I enjoy my program for the most part, some of my classes make me feel uncomfortable. In mandatory film classes, I've been assaulted by disgusting images without warning. I had no way to […]
By: Jimmy Liu Look forward to groundbreaking music cognition research coming out of McMaster's LIVELab, an $8 million research facility for the scientific study of music, dance, and multimedia. LIVELab had its grand opening on Sept. 27, and gave audiences a sneak peek of its facilities and the research that will be conducted. LIVELab is […]
By: Megan Vukelic This Welcome Week, McMaster welcomed more than just first-year students. Scout, a one-year-old border collie, is the newest addition to campus as part of a partnership between the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Hamilton-Burlington SPCA. Scout is currently going through therapy dog assessment administered by the SPCA. The goals of the […]
Animal rights issues have recently been in the news. A couple of weeks ago CBC Marketplace aired an expose on factory farming right here in Canada that featured undercover footage of a turkey being killed with a shovel. Last week, McMaster was to benefit when a professor from Rutgers was set to give a talk […]
As you enter the McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) and begin to explore the exhibition About the Mind, you are encountered with a dilemma similar to the one faced by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix: will you choose the blue pill and stay within a fabricated reality or instead take the red pill and escape […]
