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3 things you should know about COVID-19

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
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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Women in STEM: A look at the incredible contributions of women through Ingenium’s collection

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Christine Clouthier
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 5, 2020
In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting some historically significant items from Ingenium’s collection intrinsically linked of the incredible contributions of women in STEM.
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Uncovering the age-old angst of love

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Feb 11, 2020
Romantic song lyrics are not exactly what you’d expect to find in the pages of an old, agricultural catalogue. But as Ingenium staff members have learned, artifacts can be full of surprises.
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3 things you should know — February edition

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Feb 4, 2020
Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific 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 colourful monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the February edition, our science advisors
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3 things you should know — December edition

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Dec 4, 2019
In the December column, we dig into the science of beer, offer tips for viewing the Geminids meteor shower, and bust myths about alcohol in hot drinks.
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Historic barns bring architecture to life for students

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Darby Ace
Nov 18, 2019
The Central Experimental Farm (CEF) in Ottawa is known for agricultural ingenuity and scientific discovery, as a national historic site and urban greenspace, and for being the home of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. Architecture, however, is not typically the first thing people associate with this agricultural oasis in Ottawa.
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Virtual tour: Explore a Dairy Farm

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Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Oct 30, 2019
Looking for a great educational tool to teach students about dairy farming and where food comes from? Check out this virtual tour!
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New museum program brings the farm right into the classroom

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Sonia Mendes
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Oct 28, 2019
It’s hard to tune out a science lesson when there’s a chicken on your desk. Thanks to a new mobile education program from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, teachers in the Ottawa area can bring a bit of farm life — and a lot of excitement — right into the classroom.
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Hand-built bicycle tells a historical story of a colourful, Ontario teen

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Camas Clowater-Eriksson
Ingenium
Oct 24, 2019
The Billings Estate National Historic Site is currently displaying a curious wooden bicycle. It was hand built in the late 1890s by a teenager named James Henry Blair, using materials scavenged off his father’s Gloucester farm. Artifacts at the Canada Science and Technology Museum give us a rare chance to explore the mindset of this young inventor as he puzzled through the process of how to build a bicycle with limited resources.
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Margarine: The complex story of a simple spread

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Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 11, 2019
The production of cheap margarine was a boon to poorer consumers. Although some countries adopted it easily, other countries tried to eliminate it or limit its availability. In the 1870s, margarine began to spread (pardon the pun) to other countries.
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