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AugEndless Star Party
From August 22 through 25, 2019, it’s another week of night sights in the Wood Buffalo National Park Dark Sky Preserve at the Dark Sky Festival [DSF]. The park’s 44,807 km2 (17,300 mi2) sit on the border of Canada’s Northwest … Continue reading →
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JulFirst Master of Microscopy
On July 28, 1635, microscopist, astronomer, architect, Robert Hooke was born. As a student, Hooke was at ease in his studies of art, languages, music, and mathematics. At Oxford, he met and entered into creative friendships with his professors and … Continue reading →
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Endless Star Party
From August 22 through 25, 2019, it’s another week of night sights in the Wood Buffalo National Park Dark Sky Preserve at the Dark Sky Festival [DSF]. The park’s 44,807 km2 (17,300 mi2) sit on the border of Canada’s Northwest … Continue reading
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Tagged August 29, Dark Sky Preserve, On This Day, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, The Roberta Bondar Foundation, Wood Buffalo National Park Dark Sky Preserve
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First Master of Microscopy
On July 28, 1635, microscopist, astronomer, architect, Robert Hooke was born. As a student, Hooke was at ease in his studies of art, languages, music, and mathematics. At Oxford, he met and entered into creative friendships with his professors and … Continue reading
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Tagged English Father of Microscopy, July 28, Micrographia, Microscopy, On This Day, Robert Hooke, The Roberta Bondar Foundation
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Molecule Mapper
On July 25, 1920, biophysicist, crystallographer, and pioneer molecular biologist Rosalind Elsie Franklin was born. She studied natural sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge. Pursuing graduate studies but wishing to contribute to a national effort, Franklin joined the British Coal Utilization … Continue reading
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Tagged DNA, July 25, On This Day, poliovirus, RNA, Rosalind Elsie Franklin, Rosalind Franklin, The Roberta Bondar Foundation, virus, X-ray crystallography
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The First Ecologist
On July 18, 1720, English naturalist Gilbert White was born. A country cleric, White systematically recorded careful and detailed observations of all Nature in his surroundings. He experimented with different plants from flowers to potatoes to fruit trees in his … Continue reading
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Tagged bird migration, ecology, first ecologist, Gilbert White, July 18, On This Day, The Roberta Bondar Foundation
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Paleo-Mud
On July 16, 1981, Yoho National Park’s Burgess Shale became Canada’s fifth World Heritage Site of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Within Yoho National Park of Canada, the Burgess Shale holds the deposit of one … Continue reading
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Tagged Burgess Shale, Cambrian era, fossils, July 16, marine fossils, On This Day, paleobiology, paleontology, prehistoric life, prehistory, The Roberta Bondar Foundation, UNESCO World Heritage site, World Heritage Site, Yoho National Park
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Rock Star
On July 14, 1862, geologist Florence Bascom was born. As a youngster, she accompanied her father and his university associates on field trips and was hooked on geology after an early trip to Mammoth Cave. Advancing through school and into … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryn Mawr Department of Geology, Department of Geology Bryn Mawr, Florence Bascom, geology, July 14, microscopic petrography, On This Day, petrology, The Roberta Bondar Foundation
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Canada Day
On July 1, 1867, Canada became a country. Originally called the Dominion of Canada, it started with four provinces – Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the former Province of Canada split into Quebec and Ontario. This confederation had taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Canada Day, July 1, On This Day, The Roberta Bondar Foundation
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Spacelab of 1834
On June 10, 1834, naturalist Charles Darwin passed through the “East and West Furies”, the Tower Rocks, to reach the open waters of the Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Beagle. HMS Beagle was, to its time, as modern and science-packed as … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, June 10, On This Day, Straits of Magellan, The Roberta Bondar Foundation
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World Oceans Day
Yearly, on June 8, World Oceans Day recognizes 71% of our planet as an interconnected entity since all oceans are linked and flow together as one. Marine life moves without regard for ocean label. Unfortunately, so does acid rain … Continue reading
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Elisabeth Mann Borgese
and World Oceans Day
World Oceans Day and Professor Elisabeth Mann Borgese, CM, are forever linked. “The Oceans are our great laboratory for the making of a new international order, based on new forms of international cooperation and organization, on new economic theory, … Continue reading
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and World Oceans Day
and World Oceans Day