Ninety-Five Theses. Bike path terrorist. Mandatory genocide education. Spooky sex. Group exercise.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• The National Post (linked by RoEvanghelica) reprises an analytical piece by Jarrett Carty, associate professor in the Liberal Arts College in the Faculty of Arts and Science, about the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses" and the start of the Protestant Reformation. The piece originally appeared in The Conversation Canada.
• Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is interviewed off-camera on City Montreal's Breakfast Television about yesterday's terror attack in Manhattan, where a man drove a pickup truck onto a busy bike path and killed eight people.
• The Canadian Jewish News writes that an organization promoting mandatory genocide education in Quebec high schools has reported a breakthrough: the Foundation for the Compulsory Study of Genocide in Schools, led by Heidi Berger, an instructor in Concordia Continuing Education (CCE) says the Quebec education ministry has offered to prepare pedagogical resources for an eventual genocide education program. 
• Jim Pfaus, professor in the Department of Psychology and Concordia University Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Science, gives a Halloween-themed interview to CTV Montreal News at Noon host Mutsumi Takahashi about "spooky sex" and a link between sexual arousal and being scared.
• Andreas Bergdahl, associate professor of exercise science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in an article in Gizmodo that looks at recent research into the advantages of exercising with a group, as opposed to working out alone.

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