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A composite image of a clog hanging out of a wastewater pipe, a caribou with antlers, and a lightning storm over a city.

3 things you should know about antlers, what you should be flushing down the toilet, and electron rain

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the December edition, explore what antlers can tell us about Santa's reindeer, what you shouldn't be flushing down your toilets this holiday season, and how lightning on earth can cause electron rain in space.

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

A promoter of Sure Food, the food chemist James Pearson (right), at the facility of Wentworth Canning Company Limited of Hamilton, Ontario. Anon., “La viande, synthétique, produit canadien, pourrait sauver de la famine les peuples affamés d’Europe.” Photo-Journal, 5 February 1948, 3.

“It smells like meat. It even looks like meat.” The long forgotten tale of a synthetic meat / meat substitute / meat analogue / meat alternative / imitation meat sometimes called Sure Food

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. Yours truly has a question for you. Are you a foody / foodie, in other words a Homo sapiens very interested in cooking and eating different kinds of food? Yes? Wunderbar! Are you familiar with synthetic meat / meat substitute / meat analogue / meat alternative / imitation meat by any chance? Yes, yes, synthetic meat. The world needs such a product in a bad way. Do you not know that red meat is a significant contributor to climate change? Indeed, it is a major factor

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.

3 things you should know about egg refrigeration, coral reef satellite maps, and watersheds

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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.

A spliced, three-part image depicts a bowl of food scraps being poured into a wooden bin already containing semi-decomposed food scraps, a huge orange rocket core standing between two white rocket boosters on a mobile launch vehicle, illuminated by spotlights against a black background, and a seated, tired-looking woman sitting in a dark space, slouched over, resting her face on her hand.

3 things you should know about home composting, the Moon-bound Space Launch System rocket, and the science behind dark circles under your eyes

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the May edition, we explain the key to successful backyard composting, the burnt orange colour of NASA’s Space Launch System that is gearing up to return humans to the Moon, and the science behind the dark circles under your eyes when you are tired.

Stethoscopes displayed in the permanent Medical Sensations exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Health & Wellness

Curating sound culture: Exploring the history of the stethoscope

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Few things say ‘doctor’ more than a stethoscope. Even in the modern medical field, which can be regarded as highly vision-based (imaging, scanning, observing), the stethoscope remains a powerful medical tool and an iconic symbol of past traditions. Above all, the stethoscope represents a deep and enduring relationship between medical practice and sound. During my time as a practicum student for Ingenium, I worked on developing a research profile of the museum’s stethoscope collection, focusing

Autumn vista of a river winding between pine trees and snow-capped mountains.

AI-Generated sound therapy for critically ill patients

Corona Guan Wang

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

At the start of 2022, I joined Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation as a research assistant. Ingenium curators Dr. Tom Everrett (Communications) and Dr. David Pantalony (Physical Sciences and Medicine) invited me to write about a research project that I am currently affiliated with called Autonomous Adaptive Soundscape (AAS). The AAS is an intelligent bio-algorithmic system that selects therapeutic soundscapes to relax ICU patients, via application of machine learning and

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 pancreas made of light floats between the hands of a woman wearing a white lab coat, a mask, and a stethoscope.

Health & Wellness

Innovation and the future of diabetes: A conversation with an entrepreneur and diabetes dad

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Ron Shlien offers his insightful and thought-provoking perspective on insulin — a Canadian gift to humanity — and a look at promising innovations for the future.

The Mobile Demonstration Irradiator put together by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Anon., “Boon to Canadian potato industry.” Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 21 October 1961, 6.

One hot potato, two hot potatoes, three hot potatoes, four: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited of Chalk River, Ontario, and the early days of food irradiation in Canada

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Do you remember seeing The Amazing Potato exhibition when it was presented at the National Museum of Science of Technology, in Ottawa, Ontario (1991-94), or at the Agriculture Museum, also in Ottawa (1994-2000), my reading friend? No? You saw it at the Potato Museum, in O’Leary, Prince Edward Island, after that date, between 2000 and 2012 perhaps? Wunderbar! It was a great exhibition, was it not? Need I mention that all of these museal institutions are now, in 2021, known by other monikers? Yes

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