Dalhousie in the News

• Foreign oil reliance risks 'energy poverty,' MPs told Atlantic Canadians are increasingly facing "energy poverty," an expert on energy security told a parliamentary committee Tuesday. Prof. Larry Hughes, who leads Dalhousie University's Energy Research Group, says people in Atlantic Canada are vulnerable to price hikes because their oil is imported. "What you are finding is the average cost to a household in Atlantic Canada is reaching an energy poverty level," said Hughes.
• For some couples, binge drinking is routine Over 28 days, the Canadian researchers found they were able to predict one partner's binge drinking based on the other partner's binge drinking. The findings suggest that many young adults who binge drink do so because their romantic partner binge drinks, said the team at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Your binge drinking could be the fault of your partner: study Have a few too many eggnogs at the holiday party this weekend? You might be able to blame it on your date (if you dare). A new study out of Dalhousie University has found that your romantic partner can have a powerful influence on whether you binge drink.
• How Twitter Proves That Place Matters A new study, "The Geography of Twitter Networks," by my University of Toronto colleagues Yuri Takhteyev, Barry Wellman and Anatoliy Gruzd from Dalhousie University takes a far more detailed look at the geography of Twitter and what it can tell us about the nature of interaction and proximity in the Internet age.