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Agriculture

Experiment: Starting Seeds at Home

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Apr 9, 2020
It’s the perfect time of year to start seeds inside for your spring garden.
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Earth & Environment

Coronavirus lockdown leading to drop in pollution across Europe

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Apr 8, 2020
Recent air pollution data—taken from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite—reveals a significant drop in nitrogen dioxide concentrations, which coincides with strict quarantine measures. Read the full article and see the satellite images in this article from the European Space Agency.
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3 things you should know about COVID-19

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Apr 6, 2020
For the April edition, our science advisors focused on COVID-19: how plant biotechnology may be key to finding a vaccine, precautions being taken by astronauts headed to the International Space Station (ISS), and useful tips for finding reliable information online.
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Arts & Design

Creating the Sanctuary Public Breastfeeding Seat

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Apr 1, 2020
My final year as a student of Industrial Design offered me a unique and exciting challenge: to design a comfortable breastfeeding seat for the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.
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Aviation

Archives Awareness Week: Digital Archives portal expands railway and aviation collections

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Mar 31, 2020
As students and educators shift from the traditional classroom to online learning in the face of COVID-19, the Ingenium Digital Archives portal is growing its offerings.
From left to right, Boum-Boum, Ba-Ba and Bi-Bi, in other words the Lunours. Anon., “Toute la vérité sur la soucoupe de St-Bruno – Un coup monté de $100,000.” Photo-Journal, 23 February to 1 March 1970, 1.
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Social Science & Culture

We are Bi Bi Ba Ba Boum Boum: The saga of the Lunours

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Mar 29, 2020
Did you know, my reading friend who likes to keep abreast of what is going on this planet of mad / insane people called Earth, that a flying saucer landed, at sunrise, near the monastery of the Collège Mont-Saint-Gabriel, in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Québec, on 22 February 1970? Yes, yes, a real flying saucer. With 3 crew members. This landing caused quite a stir among the population of the place. Lady Rumour had a field day. More than one person wondered in fact if nasty sea, sorry, alien
An example of the Swedish STAL Skuten turbojet engine on display, under guard, in Stockholm, Sweden. Anon., “Production – First Swedish Turbojet Revealed.” Aviation Week, 27 March 1950, 36.
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Aviation

A tale of two engines, or four, or even six: The STAL Skuten, Dovern and Glan

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Mar 28, 2020
Yours truly is running out of ideas on how to start each new issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. Any ideas, my reading friend? No? Sigh. Hello, then, and welcome yadda yadda yadda. If I may be permitted to quote one of the giants in the 2013 fantasy adventure motion picture Jack the Giant Slayer, it’s good to be back. At first glance, the photograph I chose as a source of enlightenment did not / does not seem all that sexy. It is, after all, a jet engine. How banal. This being said (typed?)

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