Global warming map. Memory exercise. Asthma control. Quebec counterculture. Orgasm exploration .

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• A release reprised by and reported on in numerous media describes a new Concordia study of global warming measurement, led by Damon Matthews, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment, and Martin Leduc, a post-doctoral researcher. Matthews and Leduc map local temperature changes caused by CO2 emissions and reveal that 2015 was the warmest year ever recorded, : Le Devoir, Science Codex, (e) Science News, Phys Org,  Big News Network, Newswise, Journal Métro, AMEQ en Ligne (behind a paywall), The Financial Express, Business Standard, Gadgets 360 (NDTV), Product Design & Development, The Marshalltown, Web India 123, Andhravilas and AZO Cleantech. Radio-Canada.ca posts an article about the research focusing on possible warming trends in Quebec, where the temperature increase from CO2 emissions is slightly above the world land-mass average, according to the study. The research is published in Nature Climate Change.
• The Sun Daily and The Malaysian Insider join the extensive media coverage of a study led by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, describing how putting toddlers through memory exercises can help them succeed later, in school.
• Health Central writes about research by Simon Bacon, a professor in the Department of Exercise Science, and researchers at several other institutions, including Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, on how regular, moderate exercise can significantly reduce asthma symptoms.
• The Université Laval publication Le Fil posts a brief announcing the recent publication of Pratiques et discours de la contreculture au Québec (Septentrion), by Jean-Philippe Warren, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Andrée Fortin of Université Laval. The book combines the findings of the authors' research on Quebec's counterculture of the 60's and 70's. 
• Le Soleil writes about the six-part series on sexuality, 'Sexplora', on Radio Canada's ICI Explora channel. Jim Pfaus, a professor in the Department of Psychology, is featured in an upcoming episode on orgasms, where he will describe his work with lab rats, whose sexual drives Pfaus submits are similar to those of humans. The episode will air Friday, January 29, 2016 at 10:30 p.m.

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