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Keeping it slow and stable in the animal world

Peak Web September 16, 2018

Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor and Agnetha de Sa, Peak Associate   Animals are slow to catch on SFU researchers have published a study investigating and comparing the delays of animal reflexes between small and large animals. The study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. by researchers from SFU’s biomedical physiology and kinesiology department, has found that animal reflexes are “remarkably slow,” according to SFU News. To put reflex time into context, researcher Heather More explained that “it takes less time for an orbiting satellite to send a signal to earth than for an elephant’s spinal cord to…

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Unfortunate might be in the title, but it’s no way to describe Netflix’s latest series

EIC January 23, 2017

By: Vincent Justin Mitra, Staff Writer Based on the quirky and delightfully dark 1999 book series, Lemony Snicket’s A series of Unfortunate Events is the latest addition to Netflix’s growing library of original content. Consisting of eight episodes which cover…

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