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Two images spliced: On the left, different plant-based milk alternatives, on the right, an overhead view of the Spirit rover.

2 things - and more! - you should know about plant-based milk alternatives and weather on Mars

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For this August edition, our experts explain how plant-based milk alternatives stack up to cow's milk, and share three interesting tidbits about weather on Mars!

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.

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

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.

Junior Lieutenant Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, in the centre of the photograph, at the Fifth World Congress of Women, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, June 1963. RIA “Novosti,” 612179.

Social Science & Culture

“Russia launches a… ‘cosmonette’” Another brief look at how the francophone press of Québec covered an aspect of the Soviet space program, in this case the journey into space of Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Hello, my reading friend, and welcome aboard the space capsule of our inimitable blog / bulletin / machine, a capsule dedicated to the second part of our article on the flight in space of the first female cosmonaut / astronaut in history, Junior Lieutenant Valentina Vladimirovna “Valya” Tereshkova. Do you remember the name of the unnamed male Homo sapiens in the photograph you saw a few billion nanoseconds ago? Lieutenant-Colonel Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky, an officer of the Voenno-Vozdushnye

Junior lieutenant Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova in street clothes and space clothes. Anon., “Un 3e Russe dans l’espace? Il irait rejoindre le couple qui s’y trouve.” La Presse, 17 June 1963, 1.

Social Science & Culture

“Russia launches a… ‘cosmonette’” Another brief look at how the francophone press of Québec covered an aspect of the Soviet space program, in this case the journey into space of Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Yes, yes, you read correctly, my reading friend, in translation: “A 3rd Russian in space? He could join the couple present there.” It was with that headline that the daily La Presse of Montréal, Québec, the most important daily in Québec, let us not forget, informed its readership that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had just proceeded to put into orbit the first female cosmonaut / astronaut in history. The name of Junior Lieutenant Valentina Vladimirovna “Valya” Tereshkova, an

Two images, spliced. On the left: Aerial photograph of two rows of six large circular nets floating on water and attached by ropes to a boat. On the right: The rings of Saturn slice horizontally, almost edge-on, through the middle of the image. A variety of Saturnian moons of varying apparent sizes are in the image ranging from very small, background moons to larger and closer moons.

2 Things you should know about an integrated aquaculture system and discovering more of Saturn's moons

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For this June edition, our experts explain how recreating nature's recycling system can lead to greener aquaculture, and how more of Saturn's moons were recently discovered.

Spliced image, from left to right: a seismometer on mars, a heap of red rhubarb stalks with green leaves, a copper roof of the Canaian Parliament

3 Things you should know about marsquakes, the value of urine, and the chemistry of rhubarb

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

This month, our experts explain how marsquakes can tell us about the interior of this planet, how urine's chemistry makes it a useful product, and how the chemicals found in rhubarb can affect our bodies.

A dirty glass slide of a stromatolite with a dirty cotton swab at the bottom; a close-up on a bee with a green head and thorax on a yellow flower; a false colour 3D view of the surface of Venus showing volcanoes and lava flowing towards the foreground.

3 Things you should know about how native bees are important pollinators, how saliva is used to clean artifacts, and active volcanism on Venus

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Collectively, our experts explain how saliva is an effective cleaning agent for art and artifacts, how wild native bees are essential for pollination, and how evidence of volcanic activity has been found on the planet Venus.

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.

3 things you should know about why wool keeps us warm, and about its surprising uses in the garden and in space.

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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!

Four of the main characters of the what could well be Canada’s first SF television series, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Space Command. Anon., “Space Command Is Not Run-Of-Mill ‘Opera.’” The Ottawa Citizen, 26 December 1953, 14.

Social Science & Culture

“Challenging the stars themselves”: An infinitesimal look at what could well be Canada’s first science fiction television series, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Space Command

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Do you like science fiction (SF), my reading friend? And yes, yours truly very much realises that if one was to ask two SF fans for a definition of that genre, you would probably get three opinions, if not five. Personally, I rather like SF. I am especially fond of books that go over the history of the many aspects of that genre, from the magazines and books to the radio serials, television series and blockbuster movies. You will note that yours truly used the acronym SF as an abbreviation of

James Bertram Blackmon (on the right, of course) talking about his rocket with the host of the very popular American daily news and talk television show Today, David Cunningham Garroway, New York City, New York. Anon., “Jimmy on TV Show.” The Charlotte Observer, 1 December 1956, 2.

Social Science & Culture

An American whiz kid at the dawn of the Space Age who became a professor at the Propulsion Research Center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville: James Bertram Blackmon, this is your life, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Hello there, my spaced out reading friend, and welcome to the second and final part of our look at the life of teenage rocket maker and adult engineer James Bertram “Jim / Jimmy” Blackmon. It was / is quite the story if I may say (type?) so. In September, and yes, we are still in the year 1956. In September, state I, Blackmon was the guest of honour of an episode of the television show Synopsis, broadcasted by WBTV, an independent station based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the oldest television

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