Tag: Saskatchewan Science Centre

Saturday Special from the Vaults: The Adventures of Bigfoot

By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
February 18, 2012
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I’ve not written a lot of comics…but here’s one I did, with an environmental theme, for Communities of Tomorrow via the Saskatchewan Science Centre. It appeared (maybe it still does, I’m not sure) in an exhibit at the Science Centre. I don’t think it was ever actually printed as a comic per se. The art …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: Close Encounters of the Science Centre Kind

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 21, 2012
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Here’s a blast from the past: my 1993 script for a half-hour science-fiction-flavored promotional TV show for the Saskatchewan Science Centre, which aired on Cable Regina (now Access Communications). I was communications officer of the Science Centre at the time. Since I voiced the alien, large portions of this consisted essentially of me talking to …

The latest additions to my oeuvre…

By Edward Willett in Blog
March 20, 2007
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…arrived this week, to whit my thrill-a-minute educational books Neon and Magnesium, both published by Rosen Publishing. The books are part of Rosen’s series “Understanding the Elements of the Periodic Table.” It looks like I’ll soon be working on another Rosen book plus two more for the other educational publisher I do quite a bit …

For those keeping score at home…

By Edward Willett in Blog
November 29, 2006
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…I finished my Janis Joplin biography for Enslow Publishers Monday and emailed it in the same day. Yesterday was mostly a science column-and-revising-Untitled Science Fiction Novel day. More revising today (I’m up to about page 80 of almost 500–still a long way to go–and I’ve already added 3,000 words. Gulp.). Boring stuff like cleaning my …

Art and science at the Saskatchewan Science Centre

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog, Columns
March 1, 2000
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Art and science are too often thought of as opposites, when in fact they are anything but. What is science, after all, but an attempt to make sense of the world, to detect the order lurking in apparent chaos (and sometimes, the chaos lurking in apparent order)? And what is art, but exactly the same …

The Saskatchewan Science Centre

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
June 17, 1992
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Our world is largely shaped by science and technology. (Consider television!) The pace of such science-driven change is astonishing–and accelerating. Today’s young people will face a world we can barely imagine, and to do so successfully, they must be comfortable with and knowledgeable about science and technology. But are they? Comfortable, maybe, but knowledgeable? Hardly. …

How Does Your Garden Grow?

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
November 27, 1991
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Part of the Saskatchewan Science Centre’s mandate is to demonstrate that it is possible to excel in the world of science “even” in Saskatchewan. The quotation marks are intentional: it’s the attitude embodied in the use of that word we would like to dispel. The fact is, top-notch, world-class science and Saskatchewan are not mutually …

IMAX

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
April 17, 1991
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The space shuttle towers above you, gleaming white in the early morning sunshine. The familiar calm voice of the NASA announcer counts down the final seconds to launch. Billowing white steam and smoke explode around you, and as the shuttle majestically rises on a brilliant pillar of flame the thunder of the rockets shakes… the …