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Cookie Day 2016
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Sweetening the holidays for the Ottawa Mission

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Dec 14, 2017
The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is looking to make the holiday season just a little bit sweeter for the homeless in Ottawa. On Saturday, Dec. 30, the museum will host its second-annual Cookie Day. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the public is invited to stop in and help bake up some homemade cookies. "Last year, we baked 400 cookies for donation," says Jamie Reardon, visitor experience assistant at the museum. "We need the public's help to try to break that record this year." All cookies will be
Clumping together of Janus molecules after binding with E.coli substitute
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The Future of Food Safety: Bacterial Detection through a Smartphone

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Lauren DiVito
Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 17, 2017
Researchers at MIT and the Max Planck Institute have developed a method for quick, on-site E. coli detection in food. While current food safety testing either requires days to complete or expensive equipment, this new method, paired with a smartphone and QR code, will make testing inexpensive and portable. The new detection process uses Janus emulsions, droplets consisting of two hemispheres of different densities. In water, the less dense, hydrocarbon hemisphere sits above the denser hemisphere
Kandy the calf
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Sweet, new calf named in honour of Halloween

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Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 17, 2017
Born just one day shy of Halloween, it’s fitting that the newest calf at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is named Kandy. Kandy’s mother, Kathie-Anne, welcomed her new calf into the world at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 30. Kathie-Anne is seven years old, and Kandy is her fifth calf. “The labour lasted for two and a half hours – from the first visible signs of the calf being born,” says Jim Ness, a herdsperson for the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, adding that older cows deliver faster than
A honeybee
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Honeybees feel the sting of mystery toxic exposure

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 7, 2017
For the honeybee colony at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, life hasn’t exactly been sweet this fall. In mid-September, the colony suffered from acute poisoning – which typically happens when the bees visit flowers that have been recently sprayed with an insecticide. Sadly, the results were deadly. “When our interpreter came in to the exhibition, three quarters of the bees were piled up at the bottom of the hive,” explains Nadine Dagenais Dessaint, an education, interpretation and
Honey bees
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Decoding the Dance of the Honey Bee, in Real-Time

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Lauren DiVito
Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 12, 2017
Since the deciphering of the honey bee ‘waggle’ in the 1920’s by Karl von Frisch, researchers have been measuring the dance-like form of communication that allows bees to convey direction and distance to a food source. While this observation process was initially manual and time-consuming – requiring humans, protractors, and stopwatches – techniques have evolved with technology. Recently, a team from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin, Germany
Iron works in the Georg Fischer Iron Library
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Collecting and Connecting

Jun 30, 2017
Curators do many things at our three museums – research, develop exhibits, respond to research requests, provide content for museum programs, and host the public, scholars and students in our collections. Collecting, however, is our most important activity. Through collecting we create a material legacy for Canadians; through the act of collecting we connect with Canadians and help connect Canadians with each other. Collecting is not just collection building, it is community building.
Science Alive! Episode 9: Soil Science
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Science Alive! Episode 9: Soil Science

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Jun 8, 2016
It surrounds us, and sustains us. It is probably Canada’s biggest natural resource - and yet the one that we ignore the most. On this episode of Science Alive, ‘dig in’ to soil science with the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum! In the video - learn how you can build an automatic green bin. It sits right inside your house or apartment - and makes soil… The secret? Worms.
Dave Schellenberg in Ingenium's Collection warehouse
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Science Alive! Episode 4: Zombies at the Museum

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Canada Science and Technology Museum
Mar 21, 2016
If you were trapped in the Museums’ collection warehouse during the zombie apocalypse- what would you use to defend yourself? Dave and Museum Conservator Erin Secord examine the creepier side of the Museums’ collection in this special, zombie-themed episode.
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