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A map of the cranberry bog of Les Producteurs de Québec Limitée of Lemieux, Québec. Luc Bureau, “Un exemple d’adaptation de l’agriculture à des conditions écologiques en apparence hostiles: L’Atocatière de Lemieux,” Cahiers de géographie du Québec, December 1970, 389.
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“A sea serpent without affidavit, is like roast turkey without cranberry sauce;” Or, how the Larocque family created the first cranberry bog in Québec, part 3

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Rénald Fortier
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Jul 30, 2023
Ahh, it is you, my reading friend. As thrilled as yours truly is at seeing you so that we can conclude our brief look at the history of the first cranberry bog in Québec, I must admit that you caught me in the middle of something. May I put you on hold for a minute or two? Many thanks. [Music of the American television game show Jeopardy playing in the background.] Now, where were we? Ah yes, the late 1950s, and… Yours truly would recognise that look anywhere, my reading friend. You are puzzled
A serious looking Lawrence Niles Swank points out the initial impact point of the meteorite which had hit his automobile near Crawfordsville, Indiana, October 1930. Anon., “Projectile céleste.” Le Petit Journal, 2 July 1933, 22.
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“A difficult target for a meteoric sharpshooter from interplanetary space” – The incredible story of a Indiana teenager, Lawrence Niles Swank, whose automobile was hammered by a meteorite

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Jul 9, 2023
Do you consider yourself to be a lucky person, my reading friend? While yours truly recognises that such a query is a unusual starting point for this week’s issue of our astounding blog / bulletin / thingee, the truth is that said query is more than appropriate given today’s topic. If I may be permitted to quote / paraphrase the Mask, the secret superhero identity of Stanley Ipkiss, the hapless bank clerk at the heart of the popular 1994 American super hero comedy The Mask, now, you have to ask
Left to right: solar panels placed high above low-lying green farm crops in a field; bubbles of various sizes rising in a yellow-green medium; and two tarantula feet magnified 40 times appear orange in colour against a navy-blue background.
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3 Things you should know about using the same farmland for producing crops AND solar energy, museum conservators’ superhuman “vision,” and making french fries in space

Jul 6, 2023
For this July edition, we explain how future astronauts may be able to cook french fries in space, how technology gives museum conservators superhuman “vision,” and how the same farmland can be used to grow food crops and to “harvest” electricity from solar energy.
A spliced photo, from left to right: Shaun the Sheep in front of a model of ESA’s European Service Module, a top view into a red bucket containing thousands of light-brown, rod-shaped pellets, and a toddler wearing a wool hat and wool sweater holds a grownup’s finger.
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3 things you should know about why wool keeps us warm, and about its surprising uses in the garden and in space.

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Mar 13, 2023
For the March edition, we explain why wool keeps us warm, how it can be used to improve soil, and how it can help prevent fires in spacecraft!
A large impact crater viewed from the rim, a woodern spoon full of small yellow grains, a close up of a forearm being tattooed.
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3 things you should know about the untapped potential of millet, the permanence of tattoos, and asteroid airbursts

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Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD
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Feb 17, 2023
For the February edition, they explain why millet might be a super crop in the future, why tattoos are permanent, and what happens when an asteroid explodes before impact.
The thirty or so Mexican peasants who helped clear the Bacubirito meteorite, not far from Bacubirito, Mexico, 1902. N. Rosst, “La grande météorite de ‘Bacubirito’ (Mexique).” La Nature, 14 February 1903, 173.
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A blaze in the northern skies and a cinder of sidereal fire: The Bacubirito meteorite

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Rénald Fortier
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Feb 12, 2023
Hail, my reading friend, full of smarts. Did you know that right until the late 1700s, if not the early 1800s, virtually all members of Europe’s scientific elite consistently mocked the illiterate peasants who claimed they had seen rocks falling from the sky? I mean, peasants of 1800, what did they know? What could one possibly learn from observation? Had they consulted the 2 100-year-old treatises of the great Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotélēs, a smart guy who did not waste his time
A rear view of a person wearing a yellow coat and backpack in winter, a close-up view of bright red poinsettias with small yellow central flowers.
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Two things you should know about the science of wind chill, and the Orion spacecraft's selfies.

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Dec 9, 2022
For the December edition, we explain the science of wind chill and the spectacular selfies captured by the Orion spacecraft.
Three images side by side, Canada’s White Glacier, dried mealworms shown on a round wooden platter, and a pair of hands rubbing together, covered in soap bubbles.
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3 things you should know about insects as an important source of protein, the science superpowers of soap, and monitoring glaciers in Canada’s Arctic

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Aug 22, 2022
For the August edition, we explain why insects are on their way to becoming an important source of protein in Canada, how and why soap actually works, and how the health and behaviour of Canada’s White Glacier is being monitored.
Three images side by side, plastic-wrapped cucumbers, a woman with an inflamed shoulder, and the James Webb Space Telescope.
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3 things you should know about plastic-wrapped cucumbers, the James Webb telescope, and inflammation

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Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Jul 14, 2022
For the July edition, they discuss how plastic wrap on cucumbers might soon be unnecessary, the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and how inflammation helps with healing.
Three images side by side, grocery shelves full of eggs in clear trays, coral reefs seen from space, and a map of Canada divided into four differently coloured shapes.
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3 things you should know about egg refrigeration, coral reef satellite maps, and watersheds

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Jun 14, 2022
For the June edition, they explain why in Canada, eggs need to be refrigerated, how a satellite map of the world's coral reefs informs conservation, and how watersheds connect us to the oceans.
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