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A konjac plant before (1) and during its flowering stage. The flower and corm / bulbo-tuber / bulbotuber, which is edible once detoxified, are identified by the numbers 2 and 3. Henri Coupin, “Légumes japonais.” La Nature, 5 November 1904, 356.

Oodles and oodles of noodles from the land of the rising sun: A brief look at konjac and shirataki noodles – as well as glue and gunpowder, but I digress

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Kon’nichiwa, o genkidesu ka? O genkida to kiite ureshīdesu. Shitsumon ga arimasu. Junbi wa īdesu ka? Atarashī tabemono o tamesu no wa sukidesu ka? Mezurashī tabemono wa sukidesu ka? In other words, hello, how are you? Glad to hear you are doing well. I have a question for you. Are you ready? Do you like trying new foods? Do you like unusual foods? Good for you. I shall be brief today and… Who dares to laugh in our presence? Who? Anyway, let us move on, but there will be a test, at the end of

Three images, side by side. From left to right: many spices and spice-filled spoons on a black surface, a crouching man with pen and notebook in hand, lunar craters of varying sizes.

3 things you should know about naming new animal species, the secrets hiding in lunar shadows, and possible new beneficial uses for spices

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Meet Michelle Campbell Mekarski, Cassandra Marion, and Renée-Claude Goulet. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. In this colourful monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the November edition, they tell us about the art and science

Three images side by side: cluster of coppery beetles devouring a rose flower, colours showing gravity variations of the Earth, and four yellow and one white synthetic diamonds.

3 Things you should know about geoid models of Earth’s variable gravity, harmful invasive insect species, and synthetic diamonds

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

For this September edition, they tell us how the geoid gravity model helps scientists cope with Earth’s irregular shape, how invasive species such as the Japanese beetle are harmful to Canadian agriculture, and just how similar the properties of synthetic diamonds are to their natural counterparts.

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3 Things you should know about new energy technologies, human-influenced mineral formation, and the versatile uses of mushrooms

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Meet Michelle Campbell Mekarski, Renée-Claude Goulet, and Gordon Bardell. Michelle and Renée-Claude are two of Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to the Canada Science and Technology Museum and the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, respectively. Guest contributor Gordon Bardell is a science communications intern at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. He is filling in this month for Cassandra

Some ripe and not so ripe loganberries. Pajaro Valley Nursery, The Loganberry (Unknown location: Unknown publisher, circa 1895). No page number.

“Canned it is most excellent, being splendid for pies” – The crawling and flowering saga of a slight horticultural mystery of the early 20th century, the loganberry, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

That was a mouth-watering image, was it not, my foody reading friend? The loganberry is certainly an interesting aggregate fruit. Let us unearth more juicy details about its early years. Loganberry plants began to appear in Canada, in this case British Columbia, no later than 1904 – and quite probably earlier. As was the case in the United States, yours truly presumes that most of their loganberries were canned, preserved or turned into jams or jellies. That was not all, however. Home-made

Some ripe loganberries ready to be picked. Albert Maumené, “La Logan-Berry – Hybride de ronce et de framboisier.” La Nature, 30 July 1904, 141.

“Canned it is most excellent, being splendid for pies” – The crawling and flowering saga of a slight horticultural mystery of the early 20th century, the loganberry, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Are you one of those people who likes to pick her or his own fruity delicacies, be they blueberries, raspberries or strawberries? Yours truly must admit that I was not too thrilled when my father required my services on at least one occasion, more / way more than 50 years ago, to pick up such delicacies on a farm near Sherbrooke, Québec, my homecity. Mind you, I was no more thrilled to go on some shrubby patch of land relatively near that city with my parents and the family of a lady cousin of

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3 things you should know about the science behind the diversity of Canada's winter precipitation, the April 2024 solar eclipse and how to safely watch it, and how the new methods of bioponics can make hydroponic agriculture organic

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the February edition, they tell us why there are so many different forms of winter precipitation in much of Canada, how solar eclipses come about and why safety comes first when observing them, and how a new form of agriculture called bioponics makes organic certification of hydroponics possible.

A promoter of Sure Food, the food chemist James Pearson (right), at the facility of Wentworth Canning Company Limited of Hamilton, Ontario. Anon., “La viande, synthétique, produit canadien, pourrait sauver de la famine les peuples affamés d’Europe.” Photo-Journal, 5 February 1948, 3.

“It smells like meat. It even looks like meat.” The long forgotten tale of a synthetic meat / meat substitute / meat analogue / meat alternative / imitation meat sometimes called Sure Food

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. Yours truly has a question for you. Are you a foody / foodie, in other words a Homo sapiens very interested in cooking and eating different kinds of food? Yes? Wunderbar! Are you familiar with synthetic meat / meat substitute / meat analogue / meat alternative / imitation meat by any chance? Yes, yes, synthetic meat. The world needs such a product in a bad way. Do you not know that red meat is a significant contributor to climate change? Indeed, it is a major factor

Three images side by side: a toilet bowl expelling a cloud of droplets, a gloved hand holding a test tube containing a small plant, and an infrared view of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io showing spots of volcanic activity covering the moon.

3 things you should know about flushing the toilet, artificial photosynthesis, and volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the January edition, they explain why you should close the toilet lid before flushing, how we could grow plants without light, and extended volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io.

A typical advertisement of Giant Frog & Sea Food Limited of Montréal, Québec. Anon., “Giant Frog & Sea Food Limited. La Patrie, 18 October 1952, 53.

“Is a frog game or fish? There is the rub.” A brief look at the history of ranaculture in Canada and Québec, Part 3

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

It is with humility tinged with awe that yours truly must admit that I did not expect to find a quantity of information allowing me to write such a long article on ranaculture. Allow me to cite an example. An order in council which came into effect in Ontario in May 1933 protected northern leopard frogs, bullfrogs and green frogs from all forms of hunting during the months of May and June. Only frogs from American states or Canadian provinces other than Ontario could be sold in that province

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