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It’s been a long time since I was involved in a science fair. When I was seven, I put the microscope I’d just gotten for Christmas on display alongside a “dissected” fish…or maybe it was a frog. By the time I was done with it, I doubt anyone could tell. Alas, I think first prize …

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Not much blogging today, because I’ve been out pretty much all day. And no photo of the day because……my trusty Canon S50 has quit working. Well, that’s not quite true–it still works, it just won’t communicate with the memory card. Any memory card. So off it goes for a multi-week outing at the end of …

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Happy mother’s day to my Mom, Nina Mae (Spears) Willett. We just celebrated her 80th birthday earlier this month. Here she is in 1948, the year she turned 22. Not hard to see what Dad saw in her!

Ben MacIntyre of The Times of London explains what the oft-used phrases of book reviewers really mean. (Via Normblog.)

Just to prove there’s a website devoted to everything, here’s a cool one with detailed information, images, and even sound files of more than a century’s worth of electronic musical instruments, from 1870 to 1990. “The Musical Telegraph.” Who knew?

A Montreal 16-year-old has demonstrated that you can generate quite a bit of electrical power by spinning magnetic bacteria. It could point the way to a new and very green source of electricity for low-power applications.

…before overcrowded cities, food coloring, air pollution and video games turned us all violent.

The Saskatchewan Legislative Building on an absolutely gorgeous spring day. More photos here.

…and I still don’t really understand it. But apparently, light, which has previously been brought essentially to a stop in experiments, has now been given negative speed, so that the peak of a pulse of light emerges from an optical fiber in the reverse direction before the peak of the pulse has even entered the …

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I honestly had no idea until just now that one (well, not this one) can now buy a luxury submarine capable of a transatlantic crossing. (Via Gizmodo.) So where are the luxury airship yachts? Surely they can’t be far behind…

Yesterday I took a flying trip to Saskatoon for a media event promoting the Celebration of Rural History and Culture in Mossbank I’ll be a part of on June 17. Among the many events that day are several historical re-enactments–including the historic debate between T.C. Douglas and Ross Thatcher in 1955, after the latter defected …

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More photos here.