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Innovative device makes writing, creating and technology more accessible for people with limited hand mobility
HN Summary • Guided Hands helps people with limited hand mobility write, draw, paint and use touchscreens by harnessing larger shoulder movements. • The device supports people with a wide range of conditions, including cerebral palsy, MS, ALS and spinal cord injuries, promoting independence and rehabilitation. • Created by Canadian entrepreneur Lianna Genovese, Guided Hands has now helped more than 6,500 people in 26 countries, with plans to expand production and develop more assistive devices.
A device that helps people create again
“I’m an accidental entrepreneur,” says Lianna Genovese from a quiet corner of her company’s facility in Hamilton. It all started seven years ago when she was a first-year student at McMaster University. Students in her bioengineering class were introduced to Elissa James, a young woman with dystonia, a type of cerebral palsy. Their assignment was to design devices to help her function with the progressive neurological disease. Some students created feeding devices.
Bringing prosthetics to people in need
Almost 40 million people require prosthetics or orthotics, but only 10 to 15 per cent can access them. The Victoria Hand Project has developed a sustainable way of creating customized upper limb replacements anywhere in the world. “I love my hook!” enthuses Andriy Kramar, lifting up his prosthetic arm to the camera during an interview from his home in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. In 2022, Kramar was sent to the front to defend against Russian incursion.
Fighting cancer with ... gold?!?!
7 min read In a small, cluttered office at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, two scientists are excitedly explaining why they think they can fight cancer with gold. Specifically, they've created a particular gold nanoparticle - a rod of tiny atoms of gold - that can be aimed at cancer cells and then superheated to destroy them. Early results have shown promise and turbocharged the researchers' enthusiasm.
A deceptively simple way of bringing prosthetics to people in need
“I love my hook!” enthuses Andriy Kramar, lifting up his prosthetic arm to the camera during an interview from his home in Ivano-Frankivsk, a small village in western Ukraine. In 2022, after three months of military training, Kramar was sent to the front to defend against the Russian incursion. A few months later, the 41-year-old father of two, a builder by trade, lost his right arm during an explosion.
With the help of ultrasound and AI, this startup is working to speed up cancer scanning
For pathologists, identifying cancer-positive lymph nodes in tissue can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Tenomix’s innovative platform aims to fix that. At a young age, startup founder Saumik Biswas had two unexpected and heartbreaking experiences, both of which set him on a path to develop better cancer screening. Biswas was 7 when his younger brother was diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation. The two-year-old was missing a tibia, one of the bones in the lower leg.
Illuminating cities with data
Cities can be like children. We want them. We spawn them. But then we sometimes worry about how they’ve developed. And so we set about trying to shape them in the hopes of making them perfect: beautiful, kind, environmentally conscious. This vision is part of what drives proponents of smart cities, who dream that technology (specifically, urban microsensors) and the information it collects may hold the key to municipal optimization. Well, good luck. Already a Subscriber?
An expansive vision for empowering Black business leaders in Canada
With a lifelong entrepreneurial mindset, Matthew Martel (BMgmt’14) has always been attuned to what he calls people’s “pain points.” He listens to their needs and strives to address them, a skill that drives his vision as the new chief executive officer of Black Business Initiative (BBI) in Halifax, an organization that provides programs, supports and training for the Black community.
Dr. Jen Gunter On Her New Book 'The Menopause Manifesto'
We chat with the practising gynecologist about sex and mental health after menopause, and the toxic wellness industry. (Illustration: Quinn Rockliff) Twitter star Dr. Jen Gunter is known for her sharp tongue, especially when she takes on the so-called wellness industry—including the celebs cashing in, like Gwyneth Paltrow, Suzanne Somers, Oprah and Dr. Christiane Northrup.
The consummate mentor — remembering Barry Gekiere - MaRS Discovery District
Barry Gekiere was a titan in Canada’s tech community. During his 10 years as head of MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, his impact was nothing short of legendary. It was the mid-1980s, and Barry Gekiere was general manager of Modine Canada, a radiator manufacturer in rural Ontario. On weekends, he often took his only child, Adam, with him when he would visit warehouses to check on operations. One day, Adam, then about six years old, had a magic trick in his pocket that could make a quarter disappear.
Black Votes Count, But Do They Matter? Symbolic Empowerment and the Jackson-Obama Mobilizing Effect on Gender and Age Cohorts
Berger, M. (2006). Workable sisterhood: The political journey of stigmatized women with HIV/AIDS. Princeton University Press. Google Scholar Bobo, L., Gilliam, F. (1990). Race, sociopolitical participation, and black empowerment. American Political Science Review, 84, 337–393. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI Boys, S. (2010). The Millennials refuse to be ignored! An analysis of how the Obama administration furthers the political engagement of a new generation.
He Has Tried in His Way to Be Free
And to a remarkable extent, Leonard Cohen is succeeding. In 2007, Sarah Hampson had a rare opportunity to spend an afternoon with the famed singer and poet. He had the wisdom of age but was still the essence of cool—the perfect reflection of his years of Zen. Leonard Cohen in the back of a cab in New York City, 1972. Photo courtesy of Mike Jahn. The park is like a poem: self-contained and spare. Smokers sit on benches in the morning drizzle.
Dr. Coo Flies into The Lives and Minds of Girls at The Study School in Montreal
I have very clear memories of when I was a student at The Study, a girls’ school in Montreal, I cried in French class because Madame Looten, our teacher, conducted brutal dictees. (And I think maybe she despaired, as a French woman, about the lame Anglos who couldn’t spell or conjugate verbs easily or correctly.) She was capable of superb Gallic huffs. But I loved my English teacher, Mrs, Willmott, with her bucked teeth and crisp A-line skirts.
Child temperament predicts the adiposity rebound. A 9-year prospective sibling control study
The findings encourage the notion that child temperament functions as an early marker for the adiposity rebound. Future studies may advance our knowledge by including measures of child personality along the taxonomy of the adult Five Personality Factors. Within siblings, high scores on the approach trait of sociability predicted an earlier adiposity rebound and high scores on the avoidance trait of shyness predicted a later adiposity rebound with timing differences ranging between 6 and 16 weeks.
Everybody’s working on the weekend (and why that’s a bad thing)
The erosion of the weekend was something Katrina Onstad had experienced for years. She is a writer, after all: an award-winning journalist and Giller-nominated author of the novel, Everybody Has Everything. She knows the pressure of deadlines, which can have you working into the wee hours and through the weekend.
Nelly Furtado brings a new artistic outlook to her latest album, The Ride
Three years ago, Nelly Furtado was just a woman named Kim in a playwriting class at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. “Only the teacher knew my other life as a singer,” says the award-winning singer/songwriter, whose sixth album, The Ride, marks her long-awaited return to pop. “My name was just Kim, which is my middle name.” And no one recognized her? Furtado shakes her head. “No, not until the end.
Where have all the Christmas cards gone?
I grew up in a time of posted Christmas cards, with handwritten notes inside and licked-on stamps. I write that and I feel as though I’m about to describe another time in human history. I might as well have written that I grew up eating brontosaurus pie for dinner. Sales of holiday cards are “relatively flat” in Canada, according to Jim Driscoll, director of marketing for Carlton Cards and chairman of the Gift Packaging and Greeting Card Association of Canada.
When the bride says I do - to cash
Men pin money on her clothes so they can have a dance with her. Sometimes, she will tuck it into a special purse she wears for the occasion. And no - there's no G-string involved. For many generations, cultural differences were one of the most significant factors (class was another) that governed the appropriateness of money as a personal gift or offering. The "money dance," a feature of wedding ceremonies in several Eastern European countries, makes the giving integral to the festivities.
Can you wear love? Sure, but it’ll cost you
Just in case you were wondering, there is a way to wear love. The hope for it. The pining for it. The thrill of it. But no, not the loss of it. Nor the heartbreak of it. Are you kidding? That wouldn’t move much merchandise. Sweats, a T-shirt with a tub of ice cream on it and a necklace made of spoons? What about a black shift with a strategic cut-out where your heart used to be? That might be cool, but it wouldn’t work well for the launch of a clothing line around Valentine’s Day, would it?
Robert Gage was a foppish stylist who held court with Toronto’s elite
Robert Gage had favourite epithets for different types of people in Toronto’s tangled, secret garden of money and class. There were FOOFs: A popular acronym for someone from a Fine Old Ontario Family. There was the sort of client he described this way: “It takes a crowbar to separate them from the idea of grooming as self-indulgence.” Or this: “Those who have to screw every penny out of their husbands: Even coming to me, they have to be careful.” He was a student of high society.
For Women’s March on Washington protesters, the fight is far from over
Our two buses have been nicknamed “Peace” and “Love,” and we’re riding to the Women’s March on Washington (WMW) from New York, on the organizational wings of a woman named Mary Dove. Thin, long fingers of barren trees poke out of a dense fog on the side of the highway, which is filled with massive, shiny buses jockeying for position as they stream into the U.S. capital.
Women’s March on Washington sheds light on the problem with feminism
In the weeks leading up to Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump, there has been a sense among some women that they’re girding their collective loins for an unavoidable night of bad sex. It’s a sisterhood of dread, determined to face his presidency head on and make the best of it.
Women’s March on Washington sheds light on the problem with feminism
In the weeks leading up to Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump, there has been a sense among some women that they’re girding their collective loins for an unavoidable night of bad sex. It’s a sisterhood of dread, determined to face his presidency head on and make the best of it.
What did you expect? Ruminations on the year that was and the one that will be
In the fall , my husband and I planted a magnolia tree in the front of our house. The garden there is modest, just a narrow bed, but it faces south so the sunlight is good. And whatever we plant acts as a salutation. Our go-to gardening solution was lazy – cheap and cheerful annuals every summer. I had always wanted a magnolia tree, and this fall, for no particular reason, we invested in planting one there.
Music and goodwill lift my spirits in a time of Trumpian despair
Rebekah Wolkstein stands at the front of an auditorium, facing her unconventional audience. She is 35, a bright spark of life with her big smile, red lipstick and enthusiasm for Buenos Aires tango. She introduces herself and the Payadora Tango Ensemble, a sought-after quartet that has played to sold-out audiences in Toronto at popular venues such as the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Koerner Hall and the Four Seasons Centre.
Music and goodwill lift my spirits in a time of Trumpian despair
Rebekah Wolkstein stands at the front of an auditorium, facing her unconventional audience. She is 35, a bright spark of life with her big smile, red lipstick and enthusiasm for Buenos Aires tango. She introduces herself and the Payadora Tango Ensemble, a sought-after quartet that has played to sold-out audiences in Toronto at popular venues such as the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Koerner Hall and the Four Seasons Centre.
Movie reminds the world of Jackie Kennedy’s coolly calculated legacy
We have always loved Jackie Kennedy, the first lady of Camelot. She was such a convenient image for the mythology of the Kennedy administration’s brief shining period of hope. That pink Chanel suit. That pillbox hat. Those white gloves. That dark bouffant hairstyle. We didn’t need to know what was beneath the perfect and memorable surface. In fact, it was better maybe that we didn’t – not completely anyway.
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