Your brain on stairs (and education). Staying younger, longer. Underrated poets. Gambling habits.

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• Media reports continue to circulate about a recent Concordia study led by PERFORM Centre researcher Jason Steffener, describing how continued education and such simple exercise as climbing stairs can significantly slow ageing of the brain: Longevity, The Siver Times, Star2.com. Steffener discussed his research with Mutsumi Takahachi yesterday on  CTV Montreal's noon news.
• KQED Science joins coverage of a new study whose authors, led by Concordia biology professor Vladimir Titorenko and researchers at the Quebec-based biotech company Idunn Technologies, have identified six molecules from plant extracts they have found could slow the ageing process.
• Journalist Megan Power, writing for The Culture Trip, includes English professor David McGimpsey in a list of those she deems Canada's ten most underrated poets. The article author mentions McGimpsey's poetry collection, Li'l Bastard (Coach House, 2011), which she notes was named a best book of the year by the National Post and Quill & Quire.
• The Université de Montréal's UdeM Nouvelles references a 2009 study of gaming habits and motivation led by Sylvia Kairouz, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and director of the research chair on gambling studies at Concordia.

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