The first study of how Wikipedia represents Australian places has highlighted how aspects of the online encyclopedia and choices made by the volunteer editors who work on it can lead to absences, omissions and sanitised views in articles about Australia.

Tobacco policy and communications expert Jim Thrasher believes the decision goes well beyond the individual. In a new $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the health promotion, education, and behavior professor will investigate how social influences – particularly those through social media – impact teens’ decisions to smoke and use e-cigarettes.

The American Heart Association and Chicago Bears provided Hands-Only CPR education at high school girls’ flag football championship to improve cardiac emergency outcomes

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver, or the moose.
 
Published today in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist, the study from a team of Simon Fraser University researchers ranks, for the first time ever, species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the amount of time animals have evolved independently from other Canadian species.
 
High ranked species have no close national relatives and can embody up to a hundred million years of evolution shared with none other in the country.
 
The study found that, overall, amphibians and reptiles are Canada’s most evolutionarily distinct species, with Apalone spinifera – better known as the spiny softshell turtle – being the most evolutionary distinct terrestrial animal in the land.

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