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A young girl assembles waist-high wall out of small, brown cardboard "bricks."
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Arts & Design

Cardboard: Igniting imagination for all ages

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Jun 4, 2020
Here at Exploratek, we’ve been praising cardboard as the best material ever for a long time, and we’re far from the only ones!
A close-up of a woman wearing a mask she made out of white fabric, with a crow pattern on it.
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Arts & Design

Mask making during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Jun 2, 2020
One of the most visible aspects of the pandemic is the protection we wear — for those who have access to it. A shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has characterized the pandemic and caused many sewers to cast aside their projects to sew mask after mask after mask, among other essential garments.
A collage of drawings and paintings for the Artistic Artifact competition. From left, clockwise: a drawing of a lighthouse, a drawing of a synthesizer, a drawing of a jet and ground crew, a drawing of a mercury light bulb, a drawing of a ship.
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Arts & Design

Artifacts spark creativity during COVID-19 lockdown

Profile picture for user André Laflamme
Jun 2, 2020
This spring, Ingenium members showed their true colours through an online art competition.
A colourful painting depicting two locomotives on a track, with a blue sky in the background. The words, “Visit our great exhibit – Steam: A World in Motion” are visible at the top.
Article
Arts & Design

Artistic artifacts: Teen taps into creativity to stay connected with his favourite museum 

Profile picture for user Sonia Mendes
Jun 2, 2020
A junior historian has been drawing and painting his favourite transportation artifacts while he eagerly awaits the reopening of the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
Tsar Nikolai II, on the left, with his hands behind his back, looking at the aeroplanes which took part in the Sankt-Peterburgskaya aviatsionnaya nedelya, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Anon., “Nouvelles sportives – Le tsar chez les aviateurs.” La Revue aérienne, 10 June 1910, 349.
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Aviation

Miracle of miracles, look what the plane dragged in: The Sankt-Peterburgskaya aviatsionnaya nedelya

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Jun 1, 2020
Good day to you, my reading friend, and… What is it? You have no idea of what the expression Sankt-Peterburgskaya aviatsionnaya nedelya means, do you? Sigh. It meant, means and will always mean St. Petersburg aviation week. Let us start again. Good day to you, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aviation and space, and the thoroughly non-wonderful Russian Empire, the peoples’ prison. The year was / is 1910. Realising the ever increasing popularity of aviation in Western
The Dane Jan Bo Kristensen performing a precision landing with a parafoil during a national competition organised by the Dansk Faldskærms Union, Randers, Denmark, August 2005. Wikipedia.
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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 2

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May 31, 2020
Nǐ hǎo, my reader friend, good morning. But what is a parafoil? You do remember how the first part of this article ended, now do you? Sigh. To make a long story short, a parafoil is a parachute whose fabric canopy, rectangular in most cases, has 2 surfaces connected by fabric partitions. The air which circulates between the surfaces and partitions of a parafoil in flight keeps it well inflated. A parafoil can be packaged and deployed like a conventional parachute. Unlike such a parachute
A split screen shot from a Facebook Messenger video chat showing a 60-year-old man with a digital hat and a toddler with a digital cat nose and whiskers.
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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?

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