For the second time in a row, Vancouver’s (Canada) Café Scientifique is at Yagger’s Downtown (433 W. Pender), which is hosting the upcoming August 2016 Café Scientifique talk. From the August 24, 2016 ...

This is a long read and covers a lot of ground including: a couple of highlights from the ‘Interior Infinite’ show, a reference to how modern galleries came to be what they are, the tension of hosting ...

As noted in a previous post, I’m not super impressed with the ‘War on Science’ branding favoured by a distinct portion of the Canadian science community as I find it reductionist. After all, Canada’s ...

Grrl Scientist’s Punctuated Equilibrium blog (one of the Guardian newspaper’s science blogs) has posted about the launch of Google’s first global online science fair. From the Jan. 11, 2011 posting, ...

Generations of Vancouverites have enjoyed planetary light shows at the HR MacMillan Space Centre (still popularly known as the planetarium) powered by Harold, a Zeiss Universal Mark III planetarium.

The link between science fiction and science innovation and technology has been documented and argued over elsewhere online and in print. However, the link between policy and science fiction is new to ...

This call is for Canadian undergraduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), from the University of Waterloo’s 2024 WIN Summer School on Sustainable Nanotechnology ...

Neuromodulation is technology that acts directly upon nerves. It is the alteration—or modulation—of nerve activity by delivering electrical or pharmaceutical agents directly to a target area.

Shortly after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s announcement of $2M in funding (noted in my Oct. 11, 2010 posting) for ACAMP, or the Alberta Centre for Advanced Microsystems and Nanotechnology Products ...

I think it’s pretty easy to guess the perspective from the title of the lecture, Governing in the Dark: Evidence, Accountability and the Future of Canadian Science (the third in a series titled, The ...

This entry was posted in poetry, science communication, Vancouver and tagged Adrienne Drobnies, Aileen Penner, art/science, Ben Paylor, Carol Shillibeer, Evelyn Lau, Ingrid Rose, Jonina Kirton, Kelty ...

NIMS will make its inorganic materials database, “AtomWork-Adv” (pronounced “atom work advanced”), available to the general public as a fee-based service starting Monday, May 28, 2018. This service ...