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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

The arrival of the Koninklijke Marine submarine Hr.Ms. K XVIII at its base in the Netherlands East Indies, July 1935. Koninklijke Marine, via Wikipedia.

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Felix Andries Vening Meinesz and his Gouden Kalf; Or, how the Koninklijke Marine played a crucial role in the history of ocean gravimetry, part 3

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welkom, mijn leesvriend, bij het derde en laatste deel van dit artikel over het onderwaterwerk van de geofysicus Felix Andries Vening Meinesz. In other words, welcome, my reading friend, to the 3rd and final part of this article on the underwater work of the geophysicist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz. You will of course remember that, when we concluded the 2nd part of that article, Vening Meinesz was on his way to the Netherlands East Indies, aboard the Koninklijke Marine submarine Hr.Ms. K XVIII

The United States Navy submarine USS S-21, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1927. Bill Faulk, via Wikipedia.

Earth & Environment

Felix Andries Vening Meinesz and his Gouden Kalf; Or, how the Koninklijke Marine played a crucial role in the history of ocean gravimetry, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Good morning / afternoon / evening, my reading friend and welcome to the second part of this article on the underwater gravimetric research conducted by the Dutch geophysicist / geodesist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, in cooperation with the Koninklijke Marine. Shall we begin our deep dive? Wunderbar! The Carnegie Institution, an American private organisation involved in the funding and performing of scientific research, was suitably intrigued by what Vening Meinesz had accomplished between 1923

The Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, on the right, with the crew of the United States Navy submarine USS S-21 during his 1928 gravimetric expedition. Anon., “La détermination de la gravité en mer.” Sciences et Voyages, 26 September 1929, 3.

Earth & Environment

Felix Andries Vening Meinesz and his Gouden Kalf; Or, how the Koninklijke Marine played a crucial role in the history of ocean gravimetry, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Mark this day with a white stone, my faithful reading friend, for today is indeed a great day. For the first time in the history of my humble contribution to our blog / bulletin / thingee, yours truly will deal with a topic connected to the great science of geophysics, the major branch of the Earth sciences which applies the principles and methods of physics to the study of our big blue marble, and this from its very dense and hot core to the most rarefied and hottest strata of its atmosphere. I

A red plastic telephone with the handset off of the base on a light grey table. There are scratches on the phone which is an angular design. The rotary dial is on the handset and attached to the base by a red spiral cord.

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A Phone Call from Below the Arctic Ice - The 50th Anniversary of Arctic III Sub-Igloo Phone Call to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

On December 17, 1972, Canadian scientists on an Arctic expedition made a groundbreaking phone call to Ottawa. The Arctic III expedition, led by Dr. Joe MacInnis, made the call from 12 metres (40 feet) below the Arctic ice in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, (which was, at that time, part of Northwest Territories).

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 black and white photograph of approximately 10 airplanes under construction in a large factory. Two workers are visible in the foreground.

The Avro Lancaster: Beyond the Second World War

Valerie Kaiyang Wood

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Avro Lancaster was a large British bomber airplane, manufactured by A.V. Roe and Company (Avro), that entered the Second World War in April 1942 and was best known for nighttime bombings of German cities. It was one of the first British bombers to feature four engines, which allowed it to carry a very large bombing load, more than 6,000 kg, as well as enough fuel to fly more than 2,600 km in a single flight. The Lancaster could reach speeds of 438 km per hour and had a high-altitude ceiling

A spliced, three-part image depicts sugar beets and a pile of white sugar and sugar cubes, a view of a partially cloud-covered ocean taken from above the Earth, and a humanoid toy robot wearing a stethoscope.

3 things you should know about beets, satellites, and robotic surgery

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For the February edition, we delve into a promising solution for combatting slippery winter roads, how satellites are improving our ability to monitor and study volcanoes, and why robotics may play an increasing role in medical surgeries.

A three-part, spliced image of a parched and cracked area of soil, an atom encircled with electrons, and the surface of the Moon.

3 things you should know about salty soil, invisibility, and Canada’s lunar rover

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the December edition, they explored the problem with high salinity levels in agricultural soils, a breakthrough in invisibility, and the emerging designs for the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission.

A composite image of several orange pumpkins, a spacecraft next to a rocky body, and a zombie

3 things you should know about pumpkins, Trojan asteroids, and embracing your inner zombie

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the October edition, our science advisors discuss how selective breeding results in more choice at the pumpkin patch, a fly-by of seven Trojan asteroids, and why you need to embrace your “inner zombie.” Happy Halloween!

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