TL;DR: the traditional food pyramid is wrong and places too much emphasis on foods like milk and grains. Although the revised one I’ve linked here is supposedly science-based and unaffected by business interests, it comes from Harvard, which, despite what you might think, isn’t a bastion of objectivity. You need to determine what is best for […]
On October 8th, Science Online Vancouver offered a workshop on how to improve presentation skills. Science Online Vancouver (@sciovan) is a group of science communication advocates, researchers, students and other scientists who convene online (and in pubs) to discuss science relations and communications. We also discuss fun and excessively nerdy things, like the molar mass […]
In the fall of 1977, the unmanned probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched from Cape Canaveral, aimed out and beyond the edge of the solar system. The twin spaceships carried copies of the Voyager Golden Record: a gold-plated copper phonograph record and stylus. These records contain a comprehensive snapshot of our entire […]
When a nuclear fuel rod has been exhausted, it’s sent to chill out in a pool for a few years. It’s still horrifically radioactive, and it needs to cool down before we stuff it into a giant concrete cask to be stored for the rest of conceivable existence. This is what nightmares are made of: […]
I consider myself an Adonis-/Chris Traeger-type because I don’t need to go end up going to the doctor very often. I buff my immune system by exercising, meditating and occasionally eating things off of the floor. However, many people DO go to the doctor, and 4/5 of Canadians will end up on antibiotics at some point in 2013. Doctors […]