Gardasil vaccine risks. Blue-green energy. Facebook game cheating. Unplanned IT gifts.

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• Geneviève Rail, principal at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI), is interviewed for the Radio Canada program "15-18" about her participation in research into the human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil. Listen to the interview. The text introduciton to the interview mentions an open letter in yesterday's edition of Le Devoir in which Rail, SdBI research associate Luisa Molino and McGill professor emeritus Abby Lippman express several concerns about the vaccine, notably regarding its reported harmful side effects, and call for a moratorium on its distribution. 
• Media outlets continue to report on Concordia research into micro-photosynthetic cell technology and the use of blue-green algae to produce clean electricity, led by engineering professor Muthukumaran Packirisamy at the Optical-Bio Microsystems Laboratory and published in the journal Technology: Bright Surf, Crazy Engineers, Asian Age, News R (India) and, in Italian, Free News Pos and Key4Biz.
• Tech Times joins media outlets from around the world that have reported on new research by Mia Consalvo, professor in the Department of Communication Studies, and doctoral candidate Irene Serrano Vázquez into why people cheat on social media video games. 
• CRN Channel Web (UK) writes about a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development critical of  IT companies for donating PCs, tablets and whiteboards to schools with little thought to training and overall strategy. It mentions a recent paper co-authored by scholars at Concordia and Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.

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