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A young woman wearing a white lab coat and blue rubber gloves sits in a laboratory, working with a variety of tools in front of her.

Women in STEM: A conversation with Micaela Gray

A young woman smiles as she stands at her workstation; a computer, monitor, notepad and pen are open in front of her.

Women in STEM: A conversation with Jillian Anderson

A horizontal banner depicts the faces of five Canadian women in a pencil-sketch style format. The words, “Women’s History Month – October 2020” are visible at the top of the banner.

Women’s History Month celebrates a more inclusive Canada

A spliced, horizontal image shows photos of a field of corn, the planet Mars, and an albatross flying over the water.

3 things you should know about fertilizer pollution, Mars, and the wandering albatross

A wide shot of a gallery inside the Lindt Home of Chocolate, showing white walls, white marble floors and a massive chocolate fountain. A few people are standing and sitting around the fountain, looking up at it.

Lindt opens the world’s largest chocolate museum

A barren, snowy landscape is set against a blue sky. A research facility for Environment and Climate Change Canada can be seen, with its lights glowing.

Why a warming Arctic matters and what we can do about it

A pair of worn-in brown boots stand on a patch of green grass.

Footprints and fingerprints: Reflections on a shoe-forming press from the Kingston Penitentiary

A cartoon-style drawing depicts books, flowers, and animals. A large letter “B” represents the theme of biodiversity. The words “Sept. 21-27, 2020” is visible in the bottom, right-hand corner of the image.

Science Literacy Week offers online learning opportunities

A close up a burger patties, a diagram of the sun during the solstices and equinoxes, and a satellite image of the Milne Ice Shelf

3 things you should know about cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and Canada’s last ice shelf

A young woman sits on her luggage in an empty airport terminal, gazing off into the distance to the left of screen. She is alone and wearing a blue medical mask, with headphones draped around her neck.

Remembering the sounds of COVID-19

Imari Walker in lab coat and goggles

#AmplifyBlackVoices: Imari Walker Takeover

A close-up image shows a hand holding a smartphone; Google Maps is visible on the screen.

Living with dyslexia during the COVID-19 pandemic

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A cartoon-style drawing depicts books, flowers, and animals. A large letter “B” represents the theme of biodiversity. The words “Sept. 21-27, 2020” is visible in the bottom, right-hand corner of the image.

Science Literacy Week offers online learning opportunities

An infuriated Clara shredding the Curtiss biplane piloted by George F. Russell, Dongan Hills, New York, 10 September 1910. Anon., “La vache et l’aéroplane.” Le Petit Journal – Supplément illustrée, 25 September 1910, 312.

A close encounter of the strange and unusual kind, or, How did Clara the cow meet a Curtiss biplane in Staten Island, New York City, New York

Rénald Fortier

Back in 1989, during an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled Up the Long Ladder, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a Frenchman with a British accent (!! – Hello, EG!), walked into a cargo bay aboard the starship Enterprise to investigate a fire set by a group of lost colonists he had picked up, Patrick Stewart allegedly found the dialogue so hilarious that he began to laugh, albeit not too loudly. He actually turned his back to the camera to hide this lapse in concentration. When

A close up a burger patties, a diagram of the sun during the solstices and equinoxes, and a satellite image of the Milne Ice Shelf

3 things you should know about cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and Canada’s last ice shelf

The first Douglas DC-3 airliner delivered to Trans-Canada Air Lines, Montreal (Dorval) Airport, Dorval, Québec, circa 1945-48. CASM, negative number 25515

A gleaming example of one of the most famous and significant aircraft of the 20th century: The Douglas DC-3 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Rénald Fortier

Hail, my reading friend. Eager as always to bring you news of the wonderful world of aviation, yours truly would like to remind you that, in September 1945, Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA), today’s Air Canada Incorporated, received its very first example of one of the most famous airliners of the 20th century, the Douglas DC-3. This outstandingly significant aircraft of national importance is presently on display at the awesome Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario. And yes, TCA was

The first Fleet Model 80 Canuck light / private airplane, Fort Erie, Ontario, March 1946. This aircraft belonged to Sturgeon Air Services Limited of Fredericton, New Brunswick. CASM, negative number KM-07962

Teaching to fly because it has wings: Canada’s Fleet Model 80 Canuck light / private airplane

Rénald Fortier

Let’s be original and daring today, my reading friend. Would you like to take a look at one of the aircraft in the prodigious collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario? No? Let me respectfully reject your reality and substitute my own. And yes, yours truly was paraphrasing Adam Whitney Savage. This co-host of the very popular Australian American (!) television series MythBusters presumably heard this sentence in the 1984 American fantasy / horror / science fiction

A Zenair CH-701 manufactured under license by Czech Aircraft Works Společnost s ručenim omezeným, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 2011. Wikimedia.

Born in a garage, but now all the world is a market for Zenair Limited: A look at the Cold War era designs of Christophe Jean Heintz, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Hello again, my reading friend whose health and well-being concerns me. How are you? Would you by any chance be ready to take up the thread of our overview of the activities of Zenair Limited, one of the giants in the design of homebuilt aircraft in Canada, if not North America? Wunderbar. A Colombian firm founded by a gentleman mentioned in the first part of this article, Máximo “Max” Tedesco, in 1971, Agrocopteros Limitada, assembled 10 or so kits of Zenair homebuilt aircraft in the early

A disassembled phone and a variety of parts and tools sit on a work bench.

My phone is blowing up! Dissecting technological artifacts for conservation treatment

Jessica Lafrance-Hwang

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Everyday artifacts like telephones are extraordinary when you dig deeper, as are most artifacts in the Ingenium collection! Check out this article to find out why and how conservators get an inside look at technological objects.

Christophe Jean Heintz at the controls of the Heintz Zenith. Anon., “–.” Aviation magazine international, 15 to 31 August 1970, cover.

Born in a garage, but now all the world is a market for Zenair Limited: A look at the Cold War era designs of Christophe Jean Heintz, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Hello, my reading friend, hello. Yours truly would like to touch on this day the history of one of the giants in the design of homebuilt aircraft in Canada, if not North America. I will do this through a photograph which adorned the cover of the 15 to 31 August 1970 issue of an excellent French biweekly magazine which has since disappeared, Aviation magazine international. This story had its origins in a decision taken in France in the early 1970s. This being said (typed?), yours truly prefers

A close up of a cow nose, a diagram of orbits within our solar system, and an electron microscope image of a bacteria

3 things you should know about eco-friendly cows, near Earth asteroids, and potential life on Mars

A young woman sits on her luggage in an empty airport terminal, gazing off into the distance to the left of screen. She is alone and wearing a blue medical mask, with headphones draped around her neck.

Remembering the sounds of COVID-19

The Echo 1A satellite balloon during an inflation test, 1960. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The wonderful lead balloons of Claude Williams Coffee, Junior, Walter Edward Bressette and William J. O’Sullivan: The Echo satelloons in Québec and elsewhere, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Have you watched the sky recently, my reading friend, as implored by one of the main characters in a 1951 American feature film, The Thing from Another World – one of the classics of science fiction cinema of the 1950s? Yes? No? No matter. And yes, yours truly wrote (typed?) these same words at the start of the first part of this article on the Echo 1A and Echo 2 satelloons. The present and second part of this article consists of a few lines on what was said about Echo 1A in Québec in August and

Women’s History Month celebrates a more inclusive Canada

Ingenium - Canada's…

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Household Technology

Augmented Alley

The Echo 1A satelloon whizzing in the sky, above the École normale de Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Québec. Dominique Lapointe, “Une visite qui nous est devenue familière – L’Écho 1 continue à se promener tous les soirs sur notre région.” Le Progrès du Saguenay, 27 August 1960, 7.

The wonderful lead balloons of Claude Williams Coffee, Junior, Walter Edward Bressette and William J. O’Sullivan: The Echo satelloons in Québec and elsewhere, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Have you watched the sky recently, my reading friend, as implored by one of the main characters in a 1951 American feature film, The Thing from Another World – one of the classics of science fiction cinema of the 1950s? Yes? No? No matter. This week’s topic touches upon 1 of the 2 fields of activity of the wonderful Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, namely space, the final frontier. The photograph with which we begin our plunge into the interplanetary vacuum is not

: A black-and-white photograph of Robert Hampton Gray posing with his hands across his raised knee and dressed in his ceremonial uniform.

Honouring the brave: Robert Hampton Gray was Canada’s last recipient of the Victoria Cross

Photograph of a computer taken from a side angle, showing partially blurred code.

Code in Place: Learning Python during a pandemic

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

When the global COVID-19 pandemic struck, two Stanford University Computer Science professors decided to engage in a unique experiment; offer 10,000 students from all over the world the opportunity to learn to code using Python — online, for free.

Pictured is a tightly-framed photograph of an Alleles prosthetic leg cover, as displayed in the Wearable Tech exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The prosthetic cover's shape resembles the shape of a human leg, from knee down to ankle, but its appearance is highly stylized. It is made of a textured pink plastic, with a detailed black pattern that extends from top to bottom.

Collection Development

Representing accessibility in the Ingenium collection

A stack of butter tarts sit on a silver platter; a small Canadian flag is inserted into the top butter tart.

Baskin Robbins is bringing back their butter tart ice cream and it's so Canadian