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This is the final commentary on the report titled, (INVESTING IN CANADA’S FUTURE; Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research). Part 1 of my commentary having provided some introductory ...
Michael Berger has written a March 10, 2015 Nanowerk spotlight article reviewing nanomedicine’s progress or lack thereof (Note: Links have been removed), In early 2003, the European Science Foundation ...
I have received support to attend the 2012 Canadian Science Policy Conference in Calgary! Thank you to the folks who are helping me get there and to everyone who helped with suggestions and retweets ...
The goal of the Inclusive Audiences team is to increase professional and institutional capacity to effectively engage underserved and underrepresented audiences, including girls, bilingual audiences, ...
The myth of Canada’s nanomaterials reporting plan/inventory lives on. A group (Program on Reproductive Health and Environment) at the University of California in San Francisco just issued a draft set ...
I got an email yesterday from Carolyn Friedman notifying me that FrogHeart was on a list of 50 Forward Thinking Nanotech Blogs. I was a little mystified when I noted that the list is on a site called, ...
I just got a response to an email interview from David Cramb, the Canadian researcher at the University of Calgary, mentioned earlier this week here. I will be posting his interview on this site ...
According to an August 4, 2020 news item on ScienceDaily the ‘Ice-phobic’ properties of moths’ eyes have inspired a new technology, Researchers have been working for decades on improving the ...
What would happen if we had a digital disaster? Try to imagine a situation where all or most of our information has been destroyed on all global networks. It may seem unlikely but it’s not entirely ...
The survey being conducted by Paige Jarreau and Science Borealis (Canadian science blog aggregator) is coming to an end today. If you have any interest in participating here’s more including a link ...
Each year the folks at Open Lab create an anthology of the best science writing on blogs. Here’s a little background about the project from the ‘What is Open Laboratory’ page, The Open Laboratory is ...