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2) An outstretched hand holds a mixture of grains above a blue dish.
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Agriculture

Behind the scenes: Meet an organic grain farmer

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Sep 19, 2019
Shelley and Tony Spruit are going against the grain. After more than a quarter century of growing wheat, soybeans, and corn — mainly for animal feed and ethanol — the couple began experimenting with alternatives on their family owned and operated farm near Ottawa, planting seeds from corn and barley varieties not traditionally grown in Ontario. The move is reflective of their agricultural philosophy, and Shelley Spruit believes it’s critically important to educate consumers about what they’re
A group of people wearing spacesuits stand in a room illuminated by a red light.
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Space

You can go on a simulated mission to Mars in Spain

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Sep 17, 2019
Curious to know what it feels like to live on the Red Planet? TripAdvisor is now offering a “Life on Mars Experience,” and it only costs $9,000 CAD! Read more from Curiosity.com about this unusual travel offering.
A poster of the Soviet science fiction movie Nebo Zovyot.
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Space

Nebo zovyot and Battle Beyond the Sun; or, Why, oh why did Americans trash a very good Soviet science fiction movie? Part 1

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Sep 16, 2019
Do you have an answer to the question at the heart of this week’s topic of our blog / bulletin / thingee, my reading friend? Never mind. We will examine this matter soon enough. Yours truly has another question, however. Did Soviet movie theatres sell popcorn in September 1959, the very month during which the science fiction movie Nebo Zovyot , a Soviet take on the space race of the 1950s and early 1960s, an admirable, breathtaking, grand and visually impressive motion picture, dare one say
Picture of Brooke in the Canada Science and Technology Museum Archives.]
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Library and Archives

Behind the scenes: A glimpse at life in a museum’s archives

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Sep 13, 2019
When I first started my four-month student placement at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, I had no idea that I’d get the chance to work in two different climates, visit every province across the country, and see a giant artifact roll across the museum parking lot. Museum life sure can surprise you!
An image of a satellite in space, microplastics, and soybeans.
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Space
Agriculture
Earth & Environment
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3 things you should know — September edition

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Sep 10, 2019
Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. These Ingenium employees are professional science communicators, and provide expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science communicators offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the September edition,
Soviet astrophysicist Alla Genrikhovna Masevich and her daughter, Natasha Josifovna Friedlander. Sam Schecter, “Deux Canadiens en Russie – Rencontres avec l’élite russe.” Le Soleil / Perspectives, 26 September 1959, 11.
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Space

Her name is Masevich, Alla Genrikhovna Masevich

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Sep 9, 2019
Hello, hello, and hello, my reading friend. As part of the year of space that is 2019, yours truly wishes to offer you a topic which will, at least this is my hope, be of interest. And no, there will not be a test. My employer, the colossal Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, being what it is, it is also my hope that you will not be outraged by the topic I chose for this week. Said topic has to do with astronomy, a field in which the museum should be involved in. Dare I say
a scientist in clean-room clothing holding a CCD sensor that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope
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Engineering & Technology
Blog

The untold story behind your smartphone camera

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Profile picture for user Jesse Rogerson
Sep 4, 2019
[A shorter version of this article was originally written for Space Matters ] As a planet we take a lot of pictures. Like… A LOT a lot. Estimates are in and around the 1-trillion-per-year mark, the vast majority of which are taken by smartphones. Every day, millions of people are taking pictures with an ease that was unprecedented even 20 years ago. And one of the biggest reasons why this is so easy now is because space scientists invested in charge-coupled device (CCD) technology decades ago.

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