by d_admin | Oct 4, 2018 | Biology, Chemistry, Janice Willson, Science in the Real World
One of the more popular fads in the world of health and beauty are detoxes and/or cleanses. If you Google detox, 19,500,000 sites come up on this one topic! “6 Easy Ways to Detox…The Real Way to Do a Detox of Cleanse…The Best Detox Diets for Weight Loss…”the list goes...
by d_admin | Aug 9, 2018 | Biology, Janice Willson, Nature, Science in the Real World, Science Quirkiness
The weather this summer here in Canada has been crazy. A long period of extreme heat has plagued much of the country producing forest fires and causing heat-related deaths while other regions have had lots of rain and cool temperatures. Last weekend proved no...
by d_admin | Aug 2, 2018 | Geology, Janice Willson, Science in the Real World
On a recent trip to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, being a tourist, I made a stop into the local diamond museum (and retailer of fine Canadian gems). For those of you who have never visited our country ‘North of 60’, much of the money made in the territories in...
by d_admin | Jul 12, 2018 | Art & Science Interplay, Janice Willson, Science in the Real World, Science News
I am sure that most students at one time or another have thought that if they had to read one more word, it would just kill them but this may be an actual thing. A team of researchers at the University of Southern Denmark has found three books (so far) that are...
by d_admin | Jun 28, 2018 | Interesting People, Science in the Real World, Science Quirkiness
For as long as there has been science there has been scientific competition. What I mean by this, is the competition between researchers in the same or similar fields of interest. The competition either resides in their need to beat the other to the claim of discovery...
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...
