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08/01/2018

Spectacular images from the Canadian Wilderness!

07/31/2018

07/24/2018

Time to get those creative juices flowing, it is Name Time Again!
"Pouty" the Ocean Pout has been with us for several weeks now but is in need of a proper name.
The male pouts are darker in colour than the females. They also have a larger flatter head with fuller or more fleshy lips than that of the female.
Winner will be drawn at random and will receive family day pass!

06/29/2018

Awesome clip about the science of the Wood Wide Web! Trees use underground networks for some really cool and surprising purposes. Although, "arboreal cyber-crime" sounds pretty sketchy 😂

06/14/2018

Really hoping that the Mars rover Opportunity survives this mega-storm!!! Hang in there, Oppy 👍

Experts have no idea what the landscape, or the Opportunity, will look like after storm raging across a quarter of the planet

06/10/2018

Do any examples of bad physics in movies (or real life) bug you?

There are different categories of incorrect physics—and each deserves its own strategy.

05/30/2018

Love that the Canadian team at IISD Experimental Lakes Area were named the Flame Challenge 2018 Graphic Entry Winner. Awesome stuff!

What is climate? It's a more difficult question than you would think, especially when explaining it to an eleven-year old. Take a look at our infographic.

05/15/2018

There’s two weeks left to donate and help make this super cool Science + Art project happen! It's all about the kind of Afrofuturism seen in Marvel’s Black Panther, but right here in Canada, and you can be a part of it. The creators have added hand-knitted Infinity War-themed keychains as new Rewards. Check it out :)

Expanding Black Thought is an experimental Sci + Art project, which aims to bring together Afrofuturist artists and black scientists in Canada.

05/01/2018

04/25/2018

A new project has launched! 🚀 The goal is to team up black scientists and Afrofuturist artists. After collaborating, they'll present and discuss their results at a convention in August. Check out this -focused +Art project by Black Speculative Arts Movement Canada and Sci Comm Toronto!

Expanding Black Thought is an experimental Sci + Art project, which aims to bring together Afrofuturist artists and black scientists in Canada.

04/15/2018

Big news! This upcoming campaign on Labfundr will bring black scientists and Afrofuturist artists together to re-imagine the future.

The results of this exciting collaboration between the Black Speculative Arts Movement Canada and Sci Comm Toronto will be displayed and/or performed at the BSAM Convention in Toronto this August.

Check it out!

Afrofuturism is an art form that re-imagines the future for the African Diaspora through speculative fiction, comics, visual art, fashion, film but to imagine the future is also to imagine new frontiers for science and technology. This project, by the Black Speculative Arts Movement Canada and SciC....

04/11/2018

New post alert! Guest blogger Alan Shapiro talks about ways to overcome the “curse of knowledge” and connect with your audience via science communication.

To quote Alan, who in turn quotes author Andy Grove - "How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood."

Assuming that your grandparents aren’t Nobel laureates, it’s time to have a talk with them about science. Any science is fine, but your own area of expertise is preferred. Make sure to schedule ahead – this isn’t one of those conversations you can start nonchalantly over dinner.