by d_admin | Jul 5, 2018 | Interesting People, Janice Willson, Science News, The Night Sky
Last Saturday, June 30 was Asteroid Day. Who knew there was even such a thing and why on earth would we need such a day? What on earth is Asteroid Day? It is a UN sanctioned global awareness campaign with world-wide events planned, a website, and 48 hours of live...
by d_admin | Jun 21, 2018 | Janice Willson, Science News
Are Americans being attacked with “sonic weapons”? This may sound like a plotline of a spy film or superhero comic but diplomats have been sent home form the consulate in Guangzhou, China after mystery attacks. This would be bad enough but this is coming after similar...
by d_admin | Jun 14, 2018 | Art & Science Interplay, Art News, Janice Willson, Science Quirkiness
A recent art installation at the Hayward Gallery in London, England has exploded. Wait, what? You read that right, exploded…well, I guess, combusted is a better term. Majestic Splendor by South Korean artist Lee Bul was all set for its preview event when only a few...
by d_admin | Jun 7, 2018 | Janice Willson, Physics, Science in the Real World, Science Quirkiness
Water is: everywhere, common place, tasteless, odourless, boring… not. We as humans (especially in the West) take water for granted. It covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface; makes up nearly two-thirds of our bodies; is needed for survival. All of these things...
by d_admin | May 31, 2018 | Janice Willson, Science in the Real World, Science Quirkiness, Technology
The residents of Lake Worth, Florida were wakened at 1:45 am to an “outbreak of zombies” push notification during a power outage on May 22. What the…? I would think that if this were to happen on a regular day in the daytime that you would be likely to laugh it off...
by d_admin | May 24, 2018 | Biology, Janice Willson, Science Quirkiness
On a recent trip to the great outdoors, my husband and I came across some very interesting ‘creatures’. I quite enjoy looking for the smaller biological life forces that are in nature such as mosses, fungi, and lichens. Often these tiny members of this...
