Too much tv. Slowed ageing. Cirque Global. Flipped on Solari boards.

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• Numerous media pick up coverage of a joint Concordia/Univesité de Montréal study, co-authored by Caroline Fitzpatrick, affiliate researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, that describes how watching too much television when they're toddlers can increase people's likelihood of experiencing different social problems as teenagers:Montreal Gazette, Science Codex, Psych Central, Science Daily, Medical Xpress, iNews UK, Net News Ledger, Health Medicine Net, HealthZette.
• Radio Canada International joins coverage of a study led by associate professor of biology Vladimir Titorenko and Idunn Technologies founder Éric Simard, identifying molecules found in certain plants that could slow the ageing process
• Hupdate.org posts the transcript of an interview with Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English and founding director of The Montreal Working Group on Circus. Leroux talks about the book, Cirque Global (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016), co-written and co-edited by Leroux, highlighting Quebec's influence on contemporary circus. 
• Public Radio International (PRI), reporting on plans to replace the huge "flipping" train arrival and departure display board at some train stations with a digital display, speaks with Matt Soar, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, about his collection of refurbished 'Solari' boards, such as the one at Grand Central, and his research into communication and signage technologies. The online version of the story includes the audio of the PRI interview with Soar and a video clip of a Solari board in action. The piece is reprised by National Public Radio,SDPB World Cafe and Mid-Missouri Public Radio.

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