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Household Technology

Share your experiences: Parenting and technology during COVID-19

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May 25, 2020
Curators at Ingenium are interested in the ways in which parents’ use of technology has changed during the pandemic. How are your kids maintaining their social and familial connections?
A gloved hand holds up a sample sheet of colourful, rubber bicycle tires from Italy, circa the 1930s.
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Conservation

The science of artifact preservation: Cool storage solutions

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May 25, 2020
Have you ever wondered how plastics and rubbers are preserved in a museum? Find out more about our new cool storage room at the Ingenium Centre.
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Exhibitions

Indigenous students contribute to exhibition on astronomy

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May 25, 2020
In March, before social distancing measures, a group of Indigenous high school students from northern communities contributed their ideas to an upcoming astronomy exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
Domina Cléophas Jalbert, on the left, and Hamnett Pitzer Munger with one of the kytoons made by Jalbert Aerological Laboratory Incorporated to study atmospheric pollution. Anon., “Ce que devient un jouet d’enfant.” La Presse, 23 May 1950, 3.
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Aviation

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly: The life and times of a master of the wind, Domina Cléophas Jalbert, Part 1

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May 24, 2020
Nǐ hǎo, my reader friend, good morning. Whether piloted by a child or a master, kites fascinate. Multiform and found all over the world, these flying machines have their origins in the intense interest in flight of a certain / small part of humanity – a fascination which goes back centuries and centuries. The terms certain and small seem appropriate to me because, at all times, the vast majority of people on this Earth were / are too busy hunting albertaceratops while avoiding the charming
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Social Science & Culture

Paris Opera dancers thank key workers with a special choreographed video

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May 22, 2020
In honour of frontline workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, the dancers of the Paris Opera have released a special confinement choreography via social media.
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Collection Development

Daily mobility during COVID-19

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May 19, 2020
With the temporary closure of public spaces — such as office buildings, schools, shops, restaurants, and community centres — our daily patterns of mobility have notably changed.
Two of the young employees of Ontario Model Aircraft Company at work, Toronto, Ontario. Arthur Lowe, “Kindergarten of the Air.” Maclean’s, 1 May 1940, 24.
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Aviation

A kindergarten for the air age: Ontario Model Aircraft Company / Model Craft Hobbies Limited and a few other words on scale aircraft modelling in Canada before and during the Second World War

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May 17, 2020
How is life, my reading friend? The Sun is shining outside and I find myself thinking about a distant time, the late 1960s or the early 1970s. I remembered, for the first time in ages, a class presentation on aircraft modelling. I know, I know, I was a nerd. Oh, joy. Having at this time both hands on the steering wheel, I wish to launch our vehicle in a passionate quest for the distant origins of aircraft modelling in Canada / Québec. Interest in the fabrication of scale models capable of flight

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Star Medicine Celebration by Annette S. Lee
Indigenous Star Knowledge, an International Symposium | Sept 15-18, 2020

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