This is a fascinating story: a rare (only about 50 copies are known) first-edition, first-printing (from 1611) copy of the King James Bible has been uncovered in Manitoba. Just in time for the annual celebration of the birth of Jesus! (who, all of us of a certain upbringing probably believed at one point in our …
More about the comeback of my old computing friend Commodore. (Via Gizmodo.)
The first step in building a road is choosing a route for that road. The best way to choose that route is from aerial photographs—and nobody has more experience at it than Jack Mollard, president of J.D. Mollard and Associates in Regina. The topic is the use of aerial and satellite photography in engineering and …
Christmas, as everyone knows (except parents who insist on giving socks and underwear—you know who you are) is all about toys. But that doesn’t mean it can’t also be about science. David A. Katz, a chemist, educator, science communicator and consultant from Tucson, Arizona, has a webpage called Chemistry in the Toy Store which describes …
Even after Saskatchewan became a province, the majority of its traffic was horse-drawn: in 1906, there were just 22 motor vehicles registered in Saskatchewan. I’m writing about the building of the Saskatchewan road network, the most extensive of any province in Canada. (Something around 190,000 kilometres.)
The Canadian Arrow team, erstwhile X-Prize contenders, has been quietly working on a orbital transport.
I enjoyed this article on Forrest J. Ackerman, the “father of sci-fi” (so-called because he coined the word “sci-fi,” for which I have magnanimously forgiven him); I had the privilege of meeting Forry at the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago in 2000.
Why, yes I did: my four-year-old daughter, Alice. Of course, I just might be biased… Naw.
I know this company just bought the name, but I’m feeing nostalgic all of a sudden, as I remember my first computer, a Commodore 64 (with a floppy drive, it set me back around $1,500 Canadian), my second computer, also a Commodore 64 (the first one died) and my third computer, a Commodore 128. Those …
“You can’t get there from here,” goes the punchline to an old joke, but in Saskatchewan, you usually can, thanks to the largest road system in Canada—more than 190,000 kilometres of roads. The topic, of course, is the building of Saskatchewan’s roads.
A British inventor has come up with a ramp that generates about 10 kilowatts of electricity every time a car passes over it. Think how much energy you could recover from a busy street! This is one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” devices. (Via Jalopnik.)
Saskatchewan is known as a windy place: there’s an old joke that “In Saskatchewan we don’t really call it windy unless we can see whitecaps on our bathwater.” The topic: SaskPower’s Centennial Windpower Project.
