Unpublished Newswire
Yawning is strange.
It’s not obviously just mechanical, like a burp to release gas pressure, or just psychological, like a yelp to express fear or excitement. A yawn is more like a sneeze or a hiccup, an involuntary breath event that is sometimes more or less resistible.
But what is really strange, almost unique among human behaviours, is that yawning is contagious.
New research on chimpanzees by a British team of cognitive scientists shows contagious yawning is not only common in other species, and can happen between species, but that it can also be induced in chimps by an...
June 21, 2025 - 07:00 | Joseph Brean | National Post
K uskowunusk is a dark cloud that holds the threat of a great rain that only the cumulonimbus can contain, and when we moved to my favourite home—the acreage, near Edmonton—the cumulonimbus gathered, and to me it was beautiful to watch the great storms from our big bay window in the trailer and feel the walls rattle with the thunder and watch the sky light up outside while the lights went out inside. How special was the moment when my mother lit the candles, creating our hearth. But while I marvelled at the awe of it, my mother felt the weight of it.
The most formative years...
June 21, 2025 - 06:30 | Chyana Marie Sage | Walrus
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June 21, 2025 - 06:00 | Kayla Thompson | Walrus
Natasha Hausdorff, the British barrister who has become an outspoken defender of Israel’s legal rights on global news networks, warns that a “vicious cycle of disinformation” — fuelled by media self-censorship and terrorist propaganda — has warped the world’s understanding of the Gaza conflict, and put Jewish lives at risk.
More notably, the expert in international law has popularized one such law,
Uti possidetis juris...
June 21, 2025 - 06:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
Premier Doug Ford’s next move to reform alcohol retail in Ontario could be allowing supermarket chains to sell their own private-label wine and beer, such as Costco’s Kirkland Signature brand. CBC News has learned that big retailers are lobbying for the province to end its ban on grocery stores selling their own-brand alcohol products.
June 21, 2025 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Alberta's measles outbreaks have now eclipsed the 1,000 case milestone and infectious diseases specialists are warning the virus is likely "impossible to contain," given the current level of transmission.
June 21, 2025 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
