Named one of the world’s ‘weirdest’ animals by National Geographic, basking sharks are also the second largest shark after the whale shark. They are also Canada’s most endangered marine fish as the Pacific Ocean population is almost extinct. That’s why any...
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New music research project uses big data to create an electronic monk
A new Canadian research project is collecting big data from medieval melodies chanted by monks more than 1,000 years ago. And it's all searchable. But to what end? Kate Helsen, an assistant musicology professor at Western University's Don Wright Faculty of Music, is...