Alan Dyer is an astronomy author and astrophotographer based in southern Alberta who has been fortunate enough to make a living by writing and teaching about space at planetariums in Western Canada. He is already booked to travel to Spain to witness his 18th total eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026. Dyer has put together a […]
From CBC’s The Current 2024-01-03 The news in 2023 was dominated by cruelty, conflict, and climate disasters, but Angus Hervey says it was also the “best year ever” for global health, conservation, and clean energy. Hervey is the editor of Future Crunch, a newsletter highlighting positive news. He says the good news can often outweigh […]
9-year-old’s gender questioned in ‘gobsmacking’ track-and-field incident, family says Winston Szeto, Brady Strachan · CBC News · Posted: Jun 13, 2023 11:13 PM PDT | Last Updated: June 14 A man at a Kelowna track meet insisted on seeing documentation ‘proving my daughter was born a girl,’ mom says’. Click here to see the full article. Wayne Broughton, a Central […]
From ‘Only Sky’ by Phil Zucherman, March 24, 2023 There have always been non-believers. But for the first time in recorded history, there are now numerous societies with a majority of people who don’t believe in God. According to an analysis of the best internationally-available data by Isabella Kasselstrand, Ryan T. Cragun, and me, published in our […]
From the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website: An infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak. It causes confusion and risk-taking behaviours that can harm health. It also leads to mistrust in health authorities and undermines the public health response. An infodemic can intensify […]
On August 16, 1999, Alberta’s Learning Minister, Lyle Oberg, dissolved the Calgary Board of Education and appointed temporary trustees. The board had become so dysfunctional that it imploded. Some board members held such strong stances, bordering on extreme views, that they could not make it work. One of the members had interned at the Fraser […]
From the NASA website below The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during […]
From: CBC’s Quirk and Quarks, March 12th, 2022 Episode: On March 2, at a meeting of the United Nations Environmental Assembly in Nairobi, the world’s nations agreed to negotiate a global agreement to control plastic pollution. We speak to Max Liboiron, a plastics pollution researcher at Memorial University of Newfoundland, about how the world created its plastics […]
Hi KASHA science fans, The launch date for this new space telescope is scheduled for December 25 but it can be delayed. See the latest information on the launch time here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-update This telescope will surpass the capabilities of the Hubble telescope. It is the most powerful telescope ever built. The telescope will be able […]
Source: CBC Market Place – https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace Some pharmacists working in Canada’s top drugstores are recommending homeopathic products to consumers, even though, experts say, these products are essentially sugar water or sugar pills with no scientific evidence they can do what they claim, a CBC Marketplace investigation has found. Host Asha Tomlinson and Marketplace producers spoke with 10 pharmacists […]