Andrea Mandel-Campbell wants to kick the inferiority complex right out of Canadian business

When Andrea Mandel-Campbell speaks to business leaders about thinking globally and challenging the corporate status quo, her message is authentic, down to the soles of her travelling shoes. Her own willingness to take chances allowed Mandel-Campbell to realize her dream of working as a newspaper foreign correspondent. Her belief in seizing opportunity helped her transition…

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It’s all in the feet – A Q&A on how our brains recognize motion and what to do with that visual information

Gender. Age. Weight. Emotion. Personality. All of these factors affect how we move. Dr. Nikolaus Troje has spent large parts of his career studying biological motion and how little visual information we actually need to recognize activity. “Biological motion is fascinating,” says Troje, a professor in the Department of Biology and the Centre for Vision…

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Orange is the new yellow

It’s a new way of looking at colour and safety. “Sometimes the colour you have on makes a big difference,” says Dionne Murray Lemer, senior product manager for National Safety Apparel, a U.S. manufacturer of industrial safety workwear. “It isn’t just how bright the colour, it’s also driver or operator recognition so they can divert…