{"id":40589,"date":"2016-08-19T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=40589"},"modified":"2016-08-19T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:31:43","slug":"brock-in-the-news-august-13-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/08\/brock-in-the-news-august-13-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2013 August 13-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mosquito collection challenging for Zika researchers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A dry summer means several challenges for leading Zika experts, including collecting mosquitos for their research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chch.com\/zika-research-brock\/\" target=\"_blank\">CHCH News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/timdenis\/aug-1616-bryan-giordano-brock-university-re-mosquito-collection-challenging-for-zika-researchers?utm_source=soundcloud&amp;utm_campaign=share&amp;utm_medium=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">610CKTB<\/a> reports. With this challenge, few answers and increasing questions remain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inactive kids don\u2019t sleep well at night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physical activity is the key for youth to getting a healthy nights rest, says Psychology professor Kimberly Cote, explaining to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/08\/16\/inactive-kids-dont-sleep-well-at-night\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a> the correlation between inactivity and poor sleeping habits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marijuana legalization will weed out the bad and cultivate the good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Goodman School of Business professor Michael Armstrong pens an op-ed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/rob-commentary\/marijuan-legalization-will-weed-out-the-bad-and-cultivate-the-good\/article31446626\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe and Mail<\/a> discussing the impending commercialization of marijuana and how legalization will lead to a better experience for consumers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story of a separate and unequal Canadian health care system<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Canadians continue to learn more about the history of the Indigenous community, Professor Maureen Lux shines an important light on what is less talked about: the divide in health care for this community during the 1970&#8217;s: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thesundayedition\/revolver-at-50-canada-s-history-of-segregated-healthcare-frog-march-firings-penny-lang-1.3707673\/the-story-of-a-separate-and-unequal-canadian-health-care-system-1.3707678\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why those warnings to \u2018keep hydrated\u2019 are hogwash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The common belief that people must drink between two to 2.5 litres of water each day isn\u2019t all that correct, professor Stephen Cheung reports in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3748218\/Why-warnings-hydrated-HOGWASH.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail UK<\/a>, explaining that too much water could actually be unhealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dry summer means several challenges for leading Zika experts, including collecting mosquitos for their research CHCH News and 610CKTB reports. With this challenge, few answers and increasing questions remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":40400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,3319,4052,55,37,6,4,38],"tags":[4188,1356,3049,4220,4395,4394,3773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40592,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40589\/revisions\/40592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}