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Kit Coleman - The Carbon Studio/Library and Archives Canada

Syndicated Journalism

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The insight readers wait for. Anyone who grew up with Ann Landers and Dear Abby may be forgiven for thinking that advice to the lovelorn is an American innovation, but they’d be wrong. The honour must be given (among many others) to Toronto’s Kit Coleman, who in 1889 began penning her regular column “Woman’s Kingdom” in the Toronto Mail. While the bylined feature was styled “for women only,” it was avidly read by men too, notably Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who, by his own admission, would

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Zipper

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The hookless fastener. Many great innovations simply speed up or eliminate the actions that consume our time. The hookless fastener, more commonly known as the zipper, is one of the classics. The man on the other side of the zipper is Swedish-born Gideon Sundback. In 1913, he came up with something he called the Hookless No. 2. It’s the metal zipper as we know it today—two strips of teeth brought together tightly by a slider. No more tricky buckles or time-consuming hook-and-eye fasteners

Declaration of Human Rights © Canada Post Corporation Library and Archives Canada

Social Science & Culture

Declaration of Human Rights

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The precursor to peace on earth. McGill University professor of law John Humphrey believed “there will be peace on earth when the rights of all are respected.” He backed up this profound and noble sentiment with the best attempt made so far to identify the inalienable rights of all. Professor Humphrey’s achievement is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—a preamble and thirty brief clauses that encapsulate the rights to which each and every human being is entitled. He wrote the declaration

QUANTUM: The Exhibition

TECHNOLOGIES POISED TO CHANGE OUR WORLD AT CENTRE OF NEW EXHIBITION.

Quantum technologies are poised to transform technology as we know it. A new exhibition premiering at THEMUSEUM on October 14, 2016 aims to highlight how quantum science is shaping a new technological revolution that could change all of our lives. Developed in collaboration with the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), QUANTUM: The Exhibition delves into the basic ideas and theories of quantum mechanics and how these behaviours are being applied to technology that will

THEMUSEUM OF IDEA TRANSCENDING OBJECTS

EMBRACING THE UNORTHODOX THROUGH INNOVATION

THEMUSEUM OF IDEA TRANSCENDING OBJECTS – or just THEMUSEUM as most people call it- was born out of the ashes of the underachieving Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum. David Marskell, a former marketing director at the Canadian National Exhibition and now THEMUSEUM’s CEO, was asked to step in and steer the ship through rough waters. Marskell recognized that it was imperative to pivot from catering exclusively towards children and families to offering relevant programming for all background and

Social Science & Culture

Good guys vs. bad guys: How early do babies know the difference?

Canada Foundation for Innovation

UBC studies the remarkable sense of morality found in infants. As head of the Centre for Infant Cognition at the University of British Columbia, Kiley Hamlin is interested in the development of the human mind and how we understand and evaluate the social world. One of her research projects looks for the earliest signs of morality by measuring how early in life infants can differentiate between good and bad behaviour in others. This video is part of a collection of stories called Educating

Social Science & Culture

BC’s biodiversity in the palm of your hand

Canada Foundation for Innovation

New app helps nature lovers identify hundreds of species along the province’s Central Coast. By Malorie Bertrand Ever wander in nature wishing you could identify the different plants and animals around you? Now, thanks to a team at the University of Victoria (UVic), there’s an app for that. Biodiversity of the Central Coast — launched this spring — gives users helpful images and descriptions for 210 plants, 80 birds, 120 seaweeds, 190 marine invertebrates and 20 mammals and reptiles that live in

Art of Research Photo Contest

Art of Research

Queen's University

Finding a muse in research Often, much of the research being done at Queen’s University is only seen by those involved in the project or who belong to the same department. To help highlight some of the amazing work being done at Queen’s the Office of the Vice-Principal (Research) held the second annual Art of Research photo contest, calling on faculty, staff and students to showcase their research, scholarly and artistic work through photography. Dozens of images were received highlighting

Florence Lawrence

Social Science & Culture

A Movie Star’s Big Brake

Janis Nostbakken

Florence Lawrence was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1886 and died in Hollywood in 1938 after starring in more than 200 films. Her gravestone is marked with the title The First Movie Star in recognition of her important role in Hollywood history. In an era when on-screen credits were rare, she was the first film actress to be known by name and the first product of the “star system.” Florence became wealthy enough to own one of the first automobiles in California. In 1914, long before brake lights

Frank Morse Robb

Household Technology

Morse Music – The World’s First Electronic Wave Organ

Janis Nostbakken

In November 1927, Morse Robb was heralded in newspaper stories as a genius for his invention of the world’s first electronic wave organ. At the age of 24, Robb had found a way to reproduce the magnificent tones of a cathedral pipe organ in an instrument that was small enough to fit in a family home. Instead of pipes, his innovation featured 12 shafts, one for each note of the chromatic scale. Sets of “tone discs” corresponding to organ stops were mounted on each shaft. The discs rotated to

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