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A cartoon-style drawing depicts books, flowers, and animals. A large letter “B” represents the theme of biodiversity. The words “Sept. 21-27, 2020” is visible in the bottom, right-hand corner of the image.
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Science Literacy Week offers online learning opportunities

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Sep 16, 2020
Tap into your inner scientist during Science Literacy Week!
An infuriated Clara shredding the Curtiss biplane piloted by George F. Russell, Dongan Hills, New York, 10 September 1910. Anon., “La vache et l’aéroplane.” Le Petit Journal – Supplément illustrée, 25 September 1910, 312.
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A close encounter of the strange and unusual kind, or, How did Clara the cow meet a Curtiss biplane in Staten Island, New York City, New York

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Sep 13, 2020
Back in 1989, during an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled Up the Long Ladder, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a Frenchman with a British accent (!! – Hello, EG!), walked into a cargo bay aboard the starship Enterprise to investigate a fire set by a group of lost colonists he had picked up, Patrick Stewart allegedly found the dialogue so hilarious that he began to laugh, albeit not too loudly. He actually turned his back to the camera to hide this lapse in concentration. When
A close up a burger patties, a diagram of the sun during the solstices and equinoxes, and a satellite image of the Milne Ice Shelf
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3 things you should know about cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and Canada’s last ice shelf

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Sep 10, 2020
For the September edition, we discuss cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and the collapse of the last Canadian ice shelf.
The first Douglas DC-3 airliner delivered to Trans-Canada Air Lines, Montreal (Dorval) Airport, Dorval, Québec, circa 1945-48. CASM, negative number 25515
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A gleaming example of one of the most famous and significant aircraft of the 20th century: The Douglas DC-3 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

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Sep 6, 2020
Hail, my reading friend. Eager as always to bring you news of the wonderful world of aviation, yours truly would like to remind you that, in September 1945, Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA), today’s Air Canada Incorporated, received its very first example of one of the most famous airliners of the 20th century, the Douglas DC-3. This outstandingly significant aircraft of national importance is presently on display at the awesome Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario. And yes, TCA was
The first Fleet Model 80 Canuck light / private airplane, Fort Erie, Ontario, March 1946. This aircraft belonged to Sturgeon Air Services Limited of Fredericton, New Brunswick. CASM, negative number KM-07962
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Teaching to fly because it has wings: Canada’s Fleet Model 80 Canuck light / private airplane

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Sep 1, 2020
Let’s be original and daring today, my reading friend. Would you like to take a look at one of the aircraft in the prodigious collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario? No? Let me respectfully reject your reality and substitute my own. And yes, yours truly was paraphrasing Adam Whitney Savage. This co-host of the very popular Australian American (!) television series MythBusters presumably heard this sentence in the 1984 American fantasy / horror / science fiction
A Zenair CH-701 manufactured under license by Czech Aircraft Works Společnost s ručenim omezeným, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 2011. Wikimedia.
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Born in a garage, but now all the world is a market for Zenair Limited: A look at the Cold War era designs of Christophe Jean Heintz, Part 2

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Aug 30, 2020
Hello again, my reading friend whose health and well-being concerns me. How are you? Would you by any chance be ready to take up the thread of our overview of the activities of Zenair Limited, one of the giants in the design of homebuilt aircraft in Canada, if not North America? Wunderbar. A Colombian firm founded by a gentleman mentioned in the first part of this article, Máximo “Max” Tedesco, in 1971, Agrocopteros Limitada, assembled 10 or so kits of Zenair homebuilt aircraft in the early
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My phone is blowing up! Dissecting technological artifacts for conservation treatment

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Aug 26, 2020
Everyday artifacts like telephones are extraordinary when you dig deeper, as are most artifacts in the Ingenium collection! Check out this article to find out why and how conservators get an inside look at technological objects.

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