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CHARBONNEAU – Three profiles of B.C. opioid users over 139 years

October 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE FISH-BOWL LIVES of drug users on the streets of downtown East Vancouver provides an easy, but distorted, window to drug use. That picture is as distorted now as it was [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – How Russia uses social media to stir conflict

September 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has unleashed an army of trolls and bots. His bad intentions go beyond revenge and interference in U.S. elections. Recently, postings from [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Are mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’ from a cosmic event?

September 13, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE RADIO TELESCOPE NEAR PENTICTON has detected signals that were sent from some mysterious object billions of light years away, at a time when the Earth was so hot that [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – One power grid solves the green energy problem

September 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

SOLAR AND WIND energy suffer from a storage problem. They produce in abundance, often too much, when the wind blows and the sun shines. Storage of that abundance is one [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Normalizing the voices in our heads

August 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

HEARING VOICES is often regarded as a sign of mental illness. But maybe voices are just part of a spectrum. Professor T. M. Luhrmann says the idea of a continuum of voices is [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Advice to TRU: educate, don’t prohibit cannabis

August 24, 2018 // 1 Comment

THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY plans to prohibit the recreational use of cannabis on campus. This, despite the failure of prohibition to deter use for the last 95 years in [Continue]