/oss/taxonomy/term/2990/all en /oss/article/general-science/unbearable-poopness-bookstores <p>Imagine you have been walking the aisles of your favourite bookstore for an hour, letting your gaze gaily hop from one spine to the next. You smell the ink and the paper. You hear the dulcet tones of a piano over the PA system.</p> <p>And then it hits you, like a cannonball dropping in your lower abdomen.</p> <p>The acute, undeniable urge to evacuate your bowels.</p> <p>As you make a run for the nearest public washroom, you think to yourself, “Not again!”</p> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9000 at /oss /oss/article/history-videos/smell-books <p></p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-1"> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" id="media-youtube-osaqtsx-ck8" width="640" height="390" title="Dr Joe Schwarcz on the smell of old and new books" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OsAqtsX-ck8?wmode=opaque&controls=&enablejsapi=1&modestbranding=1&playerapiid=media-youtube-osaqtsx-ck8&origin=https%3A//www.mcgill.ca&rel=0" name="Dr Joe Schwarcz on the smell of old and new books" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="">Video of Dr Joe Schwarcz on the smell of old and new books</iframe> </div> Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:06:21 +0000 OSS 8625 at /oss /oss/article/technology/e-readers-are-more-paper-you-think <p><span>Our days are dominated by screens: the morning news, ads on the metro, work documents at the office, the dozens of texts we send a day, and to top it off, a good TV show in the evening. But for a lot of people, novels are best enjoyed on paper. And that’s even after the invention of electronic book readers (e-readers like Kobo’s or Amazon’s Kindle), which can hold all the books in the world in a single lightweight device.</span></p> Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:53:23 +0000 Cassandra Lee, OSS Intern 6921 at /oss