Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Canada Science and Technology Museum website consultation

The Canada Science and Technology Museum is building a new website and needs your help.

Please fill out a quick survey to tell them what you'd like to see:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QZ6YR6H_

The survey is time sensitive and will only be available for a few more days.
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
Dec 16, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17723223
Dec 17, 2010
John P. Holdren
The White House blog
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/12/17/scientific-integrity-fueling-innovation-building-public-trust

Has innovation hit a brick wall?

Dec 26, 2010
BARRIE McKENNA
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/has-innovation-hit-a-brick-wall/article1849830/

Professionals in High Demand

Dec 30, 2010
The Black Hole: Science in Canada - Issues Affecting Trainees
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/12/30/professionals-in-high-demand/
Focus on quality, longer-lasting jobs that help local community
Dec 30, 2010
Karen Mazurkewich
Financial Post
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Governments+embrace+angel+funding/4040115/story.html
Dec 26, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/nation-builder/indira-samarasekera-putting-research-and-teaching-in-motion/article1849043/
Jan 4, 2011
Tom Blackwell
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Liberals+blast+Tories+over+treatment/4059984/story.html
Jan 4, 2011
Ujjal Dosanjh And Kirsty Duncan
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Canada+patients+owed+explanation/4055209/story.html

X-Cars

George Parker and his Future Vehicle Technologies (FVT) team from Maple Ridge, BC have become one of the top contenders in the international competition to build a mass-market car that can get more than 100 mpg with a range of at least 200 km
Jan 2011
Dreamfilm Productions
http://dreamfilm.ca/film/x-cars/
Jan 2011
Bruce Anderson
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/bruce-anderson/does-anyone-have-the-courage-to-chart-a-creative-course-on-climate/article1856623/
Jan 4, 2011
Sheldon Alberts
Postmedia News
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canadian+oilsands+pipeline+crucial+American+economy+industry/4059342/story.html
Jan 4, 2011
ANDRÉ PICARD
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/canadians-know-way-too-little-about-dementia-survey-finds/article1856506/
Canadian Cancer Society launches sixth annual Driven to Quit Challenge
Jan 4, 2011
Canadian Cancer Society
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/04/c8056.html
Jan 4, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/04/bumblebee-population-delines.html
How to track down tiny tumours
Jan 4, 2011
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17843620
Jan 4, 2011
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/canada-to-ease-physical-fitness-guidelines/article1857880/
Jan 4, 2011
SHANNON MONEO
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/raw-milk-dairy-rebrands-products-as-cosmetics-to-stay-in-business/article1856517/

Blackbirds die in Louisiana

500 dead birds found days after thousands die in Arkansas
Jan 4, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/04/blackbirds-beebe-fireworks.html
Jan 4, 2011
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Fisheries-Oceans-Canada-Fifty-Two-New-Federal-Aquaculture-Jobs-Support-Local-Communities-1375563.htm
Jan 4, 2011
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Canadas-Economic-Action-Plan-Raising-a-Glass-to-Ontario-Wine-Producer-1375657.htm
Potential boost of carbon-free electricity for booming economy
Jan 3, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/china-nuclear-fuel.html

'Double whammy' warms Nunavut

Lack of sea ice adds to 'feedback cycle' bringing rain to Arctic in January
Jan 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/arctic-sea-ice-climate.html
Country has capability to send satellites to orbit: spokeswoman
Jan 3, 2010
David Pugliese
Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Space+Agency+seek+launch+rockets+Canada/4050540/story.html
Jan 3, 2011
ROBERT MATAS
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/nb-girl-10-youngest-person-to-discover-a-supernova/article1856411/
Jan 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/nb-supernova-girl.html
Jan 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/nl-seal-pups-013.html
Jan 3, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/beaver-river-restoration.html
Jan 3, 2011
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/03/red-winged-balckbirds-beebe.html

Census squabble far from over

Former StatsCan boss insists long-form count will be back after 2011 results prove weak
Jan 2, 2011
MICHELLE MCQUIGGE
The Canadian Press
http://thechronicleherald.ca/TheNovaScotian/1219863.html
Jan 2, 2011
SHAWN McCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/us-to-impose-new-emission-rules-on-power-plants-refineries/article1855631/
Jan 2, 2011
Richard Sherbaniuk
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Review+silver+lining+climate+change/4049557/story.html
Jan 2, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/914298--plastic-bags-keep-the-nickel-fee
Jan 2, 2011
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/914297--mental-health-early-intervention-is-key

A call to discovery

The Royal Canadian Geographic Society has a new president -- author, journalist and adventurer John Geiger who grew up in St. Albert
Jan 2, 2011
David Staples
Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/call+discovery/4048915/story.html
Investigation shows gap between perception, reality
Jan 2, 2011
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/12/31/con-live-right-now-portions.html
Dec 31, 2010
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/and-now-the-weather-nasty-and-brutish/article1853702/

Electric car sales slow to start

Dec 31, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/31/con-electric-cars.html
Dec 31, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/31/shuttle-discovery-cracks.html
Dec 31, 2010
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/new-cigarette-warnings-are-a-necessary-message-from-the-dead/article1853706/
Dec 30, 2010
Scott Stinson
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Year+Ideas+Ignoring+evidence/4043005/story.html
Tobacco companies to get transition period once legislation passes
Dec 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/30/health-tobacco-warnings.html
Dec 30, 2010
Canadian Cancer Society
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/30/c8106.html
Dec 30, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/new-cigarette-warnings-include-deathbed-photo-of-lung-cancer-victim/article1852960/
Dec 30, 2010
Health Canada
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Harper-Government-to-Strengthen-and-Enlarge-Health-Warnings-on-Cigarette-Packages-1374404.htm
Dec 2010
Matthew B. Stanbrook and Paul C. HĂ©bert
CMAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/182/18/1939
Tarballs from BP spill could be washing up for years to come, chemist says
Dec 30, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/30/gulf-beach-cleanup-nears-end.html
Dec 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/30/mass-extinction-invasive-species.html
Dec 30, 2010
Paul Taylor
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/paul-taylor/popes-condom-stance-cigarette-labels-and-bpa-health-stories-of-2010/article1852983/
Dec 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/29/weather-top-10-stories.html
Dec 30, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/30/pei-pei-national-park-loses-dunes-in-storm-584.html
Dec 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/29/h1n1-pandemic-public-health-agency-canada.html
Dec 29, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atlantic/east-coast-storms-signal-effects-of-climate-change-weather-expert-says/article1851653/
Dec 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/29/tech-plant-list-kew.html
Dec 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/29/portable-radio-africa.html
Dec 29, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/29/ottawa-green-apartments-129.html
Dec 29, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/29/tech-space-russia-satellites.html
Asian power supplies 97% of world supply
Dec 29, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/28/china-rare-earths.html
More evidence for a previously unknown species of human
Dec 29, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17797276
McGuinty Government Helps Serve Over 68 Million Nutritious School Meals
Dec 29, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services
http://news.ontario.ca/mcys/en/2010/12/healthy-bodies-and-healthy-minds-for-ontario-kids.html
Dec 28, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/28/north-nunavut-wildlife-management-board-chair-akavak.html

Electric cars: Tesla's jitters

Despite its share-price dip, Tesla's prospects still look promising
Dec 28, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/teslas_electric_jitters
A scientific panel declared the government had failed miserably in its duty to regulate tarsands extraction
Dec 27, 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/911796--tarsands-pollution-ottawa-tries-to-up-its-game
Dec 27, 2010
The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/home_family/studies-set-up-to-test-hotly-debated-ms-theory-112515099.html
Dec 27, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/27/space-station-canadian-astronaut.html
Dec 27, 2010
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/27/teeth-origins-human.html
Dec 27, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/27/north-high-arctic-24-hour-dark-light-climate-change.html
Dec 27, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/27/earthquake-hits-western-quebec.html
Dec 27, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/27/nl-labrador-seals.html
What worked for cars can work for trains: railway engines will soon be hybrid
Dec 27, 2010
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17791989
McGuinty Government Making It Easier For Students To Get A High Quality Education
Dec 27, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
http://news.ontario.ca/tcu/en/2010/12/more-college-and-university-spaces-for-students.html
Dec 26, 2010
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/albertas-rate-of-syphilis-infection-still-rising/article1849958/
Dec 26, 2010
Laura Payton
Toronto Sun
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/12/26/16673626.html
Dec 26, 2010
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-sands-firms-look-at-outsourcing/article1849899/
2nd failed space launch in a year
Dec 25, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/25/india-rocket-explodes.html
Dec 23, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/23/ottawa-new-concrete-123.html
Dec 23, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/23/north-polar-bear-import-ban-eu-baffin-bay-kane-basin.html
Dec 23, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/23/medical-isotopes-chalk-river-russia.html