Karl Moore, who is an associate professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal joins us this week to talk about this year’s Hot Cities of the World Tour that took 48 students and faculty from McGill to Egypt and Morocco to meet government and business leaders from those countries. Read Karl’s Columns in The Globe And Mail and listen to Karl’s The CEO Series radio show & podcasts online at his website. Student Organizer We […]
Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets, and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology PhD student at Liverpool University, I kept removing it, but the next day, there’d be more. [Photo: University of Plymouth] I’m now a leading international expert on microplastics, a term I coined on May 7, 2004, to describe fragments of plastic measuring as small as a millionth of a meter. As I work to help reduce the grip of...
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Chris Pine isn’t method acting. He’s method dressing. In the run-up to his directorial debut Poolman, the people’s favorite Hollywood Chris has been piggybacking off of his recent style metamorphosis by blurring the line between his character’s wardrobe and his own. During his recent visit to beloved Los Angeles deli Langer’s, the actor sported a Big Boy Burgers tank top, red corduroy short shorts, and a big salt-and-pepper beard. It was plausible that he was just stopping by for a pastrami on...
The difference between Natalie Howcroft and Nicola Henderson, and most other women, is that the friends have recently become world-level athletes in one of the most punishing sports imaginable. And in June they will compete as a two-woman team in a World Championship in the endurance fitness race, Hyrox. They face the most intense challenge of their lives against the planet's best in their age group. It will take them to new levels of exhaustion. So who are Natalie and Nicola - and why do they...
Meeting pledges to triple nuclear capacity by 2050 will mean opportunities for all stages of the nuclear supply chain. These opportunities - and associated challenges - were widely discussed at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2024 conference which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Only remaining seed holds 14-10 advantageStuart Bingham and Jak Jones level at 8-8Kyren Wilson needs three more frames to reach a second World Snooker Championship final after opening up a 14-10 lead over David Gilbert. The pair were tied at 8-8 after the morning session but Wilson, the only seed left, won six of the eight frames in the evening to take a commanding lead.It would have been virtually game over had Gilbert not won the final frame with a break of 101, but he goes into Saturday’s...
“Our New Jersey nuclear units could provide access to a highly reliable, carbon-free source of baseload power,” PSEG CEO Ralph LaRossa said Tuesday.
The Kettering potter resumed his second round clash against Leicester's Joe O'Connor at The Crucible on Monday afternoon, needing three frames to claim the victory. And Wilson, who is based at Barratts Club in Northampton, made quick work of the challenge as he reeled off the first three games of the season to complete a 13-6 win. That means he will go on to play either John Higgins or Mark Allen in the quarter-finals, with that match scheduled to start on Tuesday afternoon (2.30pm). Higgins and...
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All short-selling transactions by institutional investors will be electronically processed and then filtered through a central detection system
David Ellison, 41, would not be the first rich guy to arrive in Hollywood with a fat bank account and dreams of making movies, though the son of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison boasts the rarest of attributes for a budding media mogul: a Silicon Valley pedigree. In an industry where many get their start fetching coffee or moving props, Ellison spent summers writing computer code for his father's software company and getting insights on the movie business from Pixar Animation Studios...