The folks over at the Foresight Institute made note of a competition for visionaries under the age of 20 in a Dec. 16, 2011 posting, The future will not take care of itself. Global prosperity is not ...

Episode #338 (2015 Canadian federal election and science) was originally broadcast on Oct. 9, 2015 and features,. This week, we’re talking about politics, and the prospects for pro-science politicians ...

I announced (in a March 26, 2014 posting) a lecture earlier in April (From the ‘Bankruptcy of Science’ to the ‘Death of Evidence’: Science and its Value) by Stathis Psillos being held as part of the ...

Aileen Penner, a Vancouver writer, poet, and science communications specialist, is the event producer and I gather the event is doing double duty as both a reading and a demonstration of what you can ...

Shortly after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s announcement of $2M in funding (noted in my Oct. 11, 2010 posting) for ACAMP, or the Alberta Centre for Advanced Microsystems and Nanotechnology Products ...

The link between science fiction and science innovation and technology has been documented and argued over elsewhere online and in print. However, the link between policy and science fiction is new to ...

This call is for Canadian undergraduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), from the University of Waterloo’s 2024 WIN Summer School on Sustainable Nanotechnology ...

This is a long read and covers a lot of ground including: a couple of highlights from the ‘Interior Infinite’ show, a reference to how modern galleries came to be what they are, the tension of hosting ...

While there’s a great deal of attention and hyperbole attached to artificial intelligence (AI) these days, it seems that neurotechnology may be quietly gaining much needed attention. (For those who ...

I think it’s pretty easy to guess the perspective from the title of the lecture, Governing in the Dark: Evidence, Accountability and the Future of Canadian Science (the third in a series titled, The ...

Announced in a May 23, 2018 news item on Nanowerk, [Japan National Institute for Materials Science] NIMS will make its inorganic materials database, AtomWork-Adv (pronounced “atom work advanced”), ...

Last night (Feb.20.11) was Baba Brinkman’s first Vancouver (Canada) performance in a few years and it may be another two years or more before he’s back. His Rap Guide to Evolution shows (commissioned ...