Every year disasters and wars leave homes in ruins or drive people from them. One of the first tasks of emergency workers is to provide shelter–typically in the form of tents. As anyone who has ever served time–er, spent time camping knows, however, a tent is not something you want to live in indefinitely. When …
I’ve always been fascinated by accounts of the Crystal Palace, centrepiece of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. The palace itself, after being relocated, burned down in 1936, but this computer reconstruction gives you a pretty good idea of what it was like to walk through this, for its time, futuristic building.
Every year disasters and wars leave homes in ruins or drive people from them. One of the first tasks of emergency workers is to provide shelter–typically in the form of tents. As anyone who has ever served time–er, spent time camping knows, however, a tent is not something you want to live in indefinitely. When you’re camping …
Spirit has a new lease on life, thanks to a good-heartedMartian dust-devil.
When I first started working at the Weyburn Review, the data for billing and payroll were recorded on punch cards that were sent to Regina for processing. Twenty years later, and IBM is touting the 21st century equivalent of a punch card: a mechanical chip that stores data in the form of nanoscale holes in …
I’m off to Young, Saskatchewan, for a school reading this afternoon…Grades 10 to 12, so I’ll probably read this.
Call them nanobacteria or Calcifying self-propagating nanoparticles, tiny…things…may be contributing to human illness. Research continues–but not as much as you might think would be warranted.
According to researchers at Northern Arizona University, a closer regulation of the tattoo industry may be warranted, due to possible health concerns with tattoo inks.
Why not? That’s what Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos seems to be up to.
Here’s an article about Americans and Canadians and some of the former who have moved to be with the latter that is sure to raise Canadians’ blood pressure–while annoying Americans here and there along the way.
Renowned paleontologist Philip Currie is leaving the Royal Tyrrell Museum to become the first full-time dinosaur professor at the University of Alberta. I’ve had the pleasure of having a backstage tour at the Royal Tyrrell museum led by Phil Currie a couple of times in conjunction with ConVersion, Calgary’s annual science fiction convention. He’s a …
Earthquakes only make the news when there’s significant damage–but don’t let that fool you into thinking they’re rare occurrences. We live on a very shaky planet, as this near-real-time Seismic Monitor demonstrates.
