by d_admin | Jan 3, 2019 | Interesting People, Janice Willson, Women in Science
For our second foray into the subject of women in science we will talk about Carrie Matilda Derick, a trailblazer in academia, women’s’ rights and a Canadian to boot. She was Canada’s first university professor and seemed to have the calling to teach from early on;...
by d_admin | Dec 20, 2018 | Innovation, Janice Willson, Science in the Real World, Science News
The battery is not typically a subject that stirs the soul and makes people sit up and listen but there is a lot happening in the world of batteries and the area of renewable energy. Batteries currently (pun completely intended) come in all shapes and sizes and power,...
by d_admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Biology, Janice Willson, Nature
The passenger pigeon, also known as the wild pigeon, was a beautiful gregarious dove that migrated in flocks so enormous that they seemed to block out the sun when they flew over. Their rapid decline in numbers between 1870 and 1890 is often used as the poster child...
by d_admin | Dec 6, 2018 | Biology, Janice Willson, Medical, Science News
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatally degenerative brain disease that is, thankfully, pretty rare but is also extremely hard to diagnose conclusively. The only truly definitive way to diagnose is a brain biopsy after death. That may be changing, at least in the cases...
by d_admin | Nov 29, 2018 | Interesting People, Janice Willson, The Night Sky, Women in Science
Today we are starting a new monthly blog devoted to women in science and their achievements. We start the ball rolling with American mathematician Katherine Johnson who recently celebrated her 100th birthday.Katherine Johnson (nee Coleman) was born in White Sulphur...
by d_admin | Nov 14, 2018 | Innovation, Janice Willson, Science Quirkiness, Technology
I have to admit when I first read about the topic of today’s blog it had everything I am interested in: cats, cold war intrigue, government conspiracies, did I say, cats? The cold war era was filled with the oddest attempts at trying to find out what the enemy (this...
