{"id":91533,"date":"2024-03-15T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=91533"},"modified":"2024-03-15T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T20:32:18","slug":"in-the-news-surviving-in-icy-water-funding-grape-and-wine-research-and-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/03\/in-the-news-surviving-in-icy-water-funding-grape-and-wine-research-and-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS: Surviving in icy water, funding grape and wine research, and conspiracy theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed surviving in icy water, new grape and wine research funding, conspiracy theories, sports betting and volunteer snow shovelling services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to survive a fall through the ice:<\/strong> Professor of Kinesiology Stephen Cheung spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/10353072\/how-to-survive-falling-through-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global National<\/a> about how the human body reacts when someone falls through the ice and is immersed in cold water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;The consumer just wants a great bottle of wine&#8217;: Brock University researchers tackling climate change impacts on quality: <\/strong>Debbie Inglis, Director of Brock\u2019s University Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute, spoke to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news\/niagara-region\/the-consumer-just-wants-a-great-bottle-of-wine-brock-university-researchers-tackling-climate-change\/article_ce4c9393-34c7-5aad-b293-8f4359122261.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/em> about three research projects that received $2.4 million in new government funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As &#8216;where&#8217;s Kate&#8217; conspiracy theories run wild, here&#8217;s how the story became such a royal mess:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film Michelle Chen spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/royal-family-kate-theories-1.7143519?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC<\/a> about the factors in news stories that can lead to public speculation and conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sports bettors forced to wait weeks for winnings from OLG: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Sport Management Michael Naraine spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/sports-bettors-cash-delays-olg-1.7143913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC<\/a> about complications consumers have faced accessing their sports gambling winnings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock University researching potential economic impact of Snow Buddies program: <\/strong>Asif Khowaja, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences, spoke to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/brock-university-researching-potential-economic-impact-of-snow-buddies-program\/article_2a52d578-43d4-59d8-ae26-ce899065bca0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara This Week<\/a><\/em> about a project examining the economic impact of volunteer snow-shovelling services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed surviving in icy water, new grape and wine research funding, conspiracy theories, sports betting and volunteer snow shovelling services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":91534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6,41,38],"tags":[11237,61,855,3746,7488,348,522,8568,12203,2998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91533"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91576,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91533\/revisions\/91576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}