The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in children ages five to 11. Pfizer’s clinical trial results indicate the vaccine is safe and effective in this age group. This is an important development. COVID-1 …
Each one of us will be touched by mental illness. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2011 Mental Health Atlas, more than 450 million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, - and the numbers continue to grow. For those of us whose...
The output of a computer program predicts a big storm will hit your city. You’re the mayor and you have to decide whether or not the computer’s prediction is to be trusted. Another computer program says a skyscraper will not vibrate dangerously in the prevailing...
Human activity now disrupts many of the global-scale systems upon which our survival depends. People around the world are working to find the best way of understanding and responding to this situation, but disagreement is widespread. The need is urgent to find a way...
On Aug. 10, 1973, our food system fundamentally changed. On that day, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, which replaced the United States’ long-standing policies of price supports with new policies geared toward...
Aristotle thinks children cannot fare well because they cannot, on account of their intellectual and moral immaturity, exhibit intellectual and moral virtues, as he understands them. But his conclusion follows only because he assumes the only way to fare well is to...
What are the most valuable ‘good things’ in our lives? Such questions are abstract, the stuff of thousands of years of philosophical thinking and writing, but the answers also bear directly on some important issues of current government policy. For example, many...
When it comes to big ideas, what’s bigger than the idea of science? Science is a human endeavour and a human creation, pretty much like literature, drama and football. But unlike other human creations, the object of the study of science – the world at large – is not a...
Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges Edited by Carolyn McLeod and Francoise Baylis With the advent of new reproductive technologies, and the wider acceptance of same-sex families, has also come with an array of new options – and ethical considerations – in...
Among the many repeating events listed on my computer’s calendar, two are of particular salience to me. One is a cause for celebration; the other for sadness. The first event is the Persons Case, which was decided on Oct. 18, 1929. The Persons Case – more formally,...
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) handed out the association’s annual scholarships Wednesday to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties. These awards are funded by UWOFA members, reflecting their commitment to students and to the...
Ay caramba! On Dec. 17, 1989, The Simpsons debuted as its own half-hour show, beginning with a Christmas special episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. In the 25 seasons since, the program has aired 560 episodes during its run as both the longest-running...
Recent Medical Sciences graduate Milani Sivapragasam, along with 11 Western colleagues, are joining dozens of the brightest minds from around the globe this week at the Undergraduate Awards Global Summit in Dublin, Ireland. Through The Undergraduate Awards, a...
Each one of us will be touched by mental illness. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2011 Mental Health Atlas, more than 450 million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, - and the numbers continue to grow. For those of us whose...
The output of a computer program predicts a big storm will hit your city. You’re the mayor and you have to decide whether or not the computer’s prediction is to be trusted. Another computer program says a skyscraper will not vibrate dangerously in the prevailing...
Human activity now disrupts many of the global-scale systems upon which our survival depends. People around the world are working to find the best way of understanding and responding to this situation, but disagreement is widespread. The need is urgent to find a way...
On Aug. 10, 1973, our food system fundamentally changed. On that day, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, which replaced the United States’ long-standing policies of price supports with new policies geared toward...
Aristotle thinks children cannot fare well because they cannot, on account of their intellectual and moral immaturity, exhibit intellectual and moral virtues, as he understands them. But his conclusion follows only because he assumes the only way to fare well is to...
What are the most valuable ‘good things’ in our lives? Such questions are abstract, the stuff of thousands of years of philosophical thinking and writing, but the answers also bear directly on some important issues of current government policy. For example, many...
When it comes to big ideas, what’s bigger than the idea of science? Science is a human endeavour and a human creation, pretty much like literature, drama and football. But unlike other human creations, the object of the study of science – the world at large – is not a...
Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges Edited by Carolyn McLeod and Francoise Baylis With the advent of new reproductive technologies, and the wider acceptance of same-sex families, has also come with an array of new options – and ethical considerations – in...
Among the many repeating events listed on my computer’s calendar, two are of particular salience to me. One is a cause for celebration; the other for sadness. The first event is the Persons Case, which was decided on Oct. 18, 1929. The Persons Case – more formally,...
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) handed out the association’s annual scholarships Wednesday to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties. These awards are funded by UWOFA members, reflecting their commitment to students and to the...
Ay caramba! On Dec. 17, 1989, The Simpsons debuted as its own half-hour show, beginning with a Christmas special episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. In the 25 seasons since, the program has aired 560 episodes during its run as both the longest-running...
Recent Medical Sciences graduate Milani Sivapragasam, along with 11 Western colleagues, are joining dozens of the brightest minds from around the globe this week at the Undergraduate Awards Global Summit in Dublin, Ireland. Through The Undergraduate Awards, a...