Karl Schroeder was a panellist on the 'Are We Bound for Space' panel on Tuesday at 8PM. Other panellists included Chris Hadfield, Robert Richards, Donna Shirley, and Lawrence Krauss. The session was moderated by Steve Paikin. Karl suggests, among other ...
Top stories from our Canadian blog: It's All in the Name - A New Tool Will Provide Assurance for Green Claims There's a buzz about the .eco domain. More interesting than the competition between the two groups competing for the prize are the criteria ...
The top stories from our Canadian blog: Food for thought and action What is Vancouver doing to encourage local food? A lot, as it turns out. Peter ter Weeme reports on backyard chicken coops, a challenge by city council that has already created more ...
In cell biology or molecular biology labs the emphasis is on working sterile, quickly and reproducibly. So companies have been selling all these incredibly useful products to life science labs: sterile plastic tubes of all shapes and sizes, single wrap ...
A few years ago, I found myself in Kota Kinabalu, capital of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, with a day to kill. Looking to escape the equatorial sun, I visited the Sabah state museum in the south end of town to learn a little about the local history. The ...
Ottawa has introduced "a new GPS fleet tracking system on OC Transpo buses to improve service". Even with such a system, there may be significant challenges to running buses precisely on time with variable traffic. Once buses are GPS equipped, however, ...
[an error occurred while processing this directive] Tom Karas's session looked at coal generation for electricity. His argument, essentially, was that transportation and housing would more or less take care of themselves as energy prices rise. Cars ...
[an error occurred while processing this directive] We recently showed you a chair bungie-corded to the back of a bicycle. Scaling up a little, how do you move an entire apartment by bicycle? The Human Powered Vehicles Operators of Ottawa (HPVOoO) ...
The capital of Nunavut has nearly completed construction of the first industrial agricultural facility north of the arctic circle. Vertical farming in the arctic? This is, of course, April 1st, and we're not going to try to fool you for a minute that ...
[an error occurred while processing this directive] Remember that groovy Saturn wallpaper they used to sell for kids' bedrooms? The Hubble Space Telescope folks are making available a very chic, grown-up, and open source, version of that same idea. ...
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