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The 2013 London Science Festival (Oct. 23 – 30, 2013) celebrates opening night with a 170-year-old engineering feat. From the festival news release, Mingle with some of the UK’s top engineers and find ...
Vancouver’s next Café Scientifique is being held in the back room of the The Railway Club (2nd floor of 579 Dunsmuir St. [at Seymour St.], Vancouver, Canada), on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 7:30 pm.
For the second time in a row, Vancouver’s (Canada) Café Scientifique is at Yagger’s Downtown (433 W. Pender), which is hosting the upcoming August 2016 Café Scientifique talk. From the August 24, 2016 ...
Join us [emphasis mine] for the first installment of our Science Fiction/Real Policy book club, a partnership with Issues in Science and Technology. Our first read will be Autonomous by Annalee Newitz ...
I announced (in a March 26, 2014 posting) a lecture earlier in April (From the ‘Bankruptcy of Science’ to the ‘Death of Evidence’: Science and its Value) by Stathis Psillos being held as part of the ...
This call is for Canadian undergraduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), from the University of Waterloo’s 2024 WIN Summer School on Sustainable Nanotechnology ...
The podcast is approximately one hour long and Désirée Schell (sp?) hosts/moderates an interesting discussion where one of the participants notes that issues about science and science muzzles predate ...
This entry was posted in poetry, science communication, Vancouver and tagged Adrienne Drobnies, Aileen Penner, art/science, Ben Paylor, Carol Shillibeer, Evelyn Lau, Ingrid Rose, Jonina Kirton, Kelty ...
Shortly after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s announcement of $2M in funding (noted in my Oct. 11, 2010 posting) for ACAMP, or the Alberta Centre for Advanced Microsystems and Nanotechnology Products ...
At the Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada) as usual, this month’s Café Scientifique features (from the March 2012 announcement), Dr. Bruce Archibald, a paleontologist from Simon ...
Being held from Oct. 19 – 26, 2011, the first London Science Festival will be featuring the Festival of the Spoken Nerd; Bridget, Astrium’s Mars rover prototype for the European ExoMars Project; Field ...
Grrl Scientist’s Punctuated Equilibrium blog (one of the Guardian newspaper’s science blogs) has posted about the launch of Google’s first global online science fair. From the Jan. 11, 2011 posting, ...