Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Multimedia co-editors <Play the theme music, which is an original composition or available through Creative Commons that elicits a sense of Canada as well as science and multimedia…> Raymond <who sounds as though he’s speaking from the bottom of a deep well>: Welcome to another episode of “Multimedia Posts on […]
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Experimenting with Creativity
By Michelle Lavery, General Science Editor Here at Science Borealis, we have no qualms about getting creative. Science communication is all about finding new and innovative ways of getting complex information to a wide and varied audience. We’re all storytellers; we’ve got poets (Phish Doc) and artists (Raymond’s Brain and CommNatural, to name […]
Bugging out over Halloween
by Raymond Nakamura & Lisa Willemse Multimedia subject editors Raymond: Now that the masquerade known as the federal election is over, we can get ready for the important things, like Halloween. My 11-year-old has decided to go as a carrot, which I don’t get at all. I told her she should at least say she’s […]
If Picasso were a multimedia science blogger…
Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Multimedia co-editors It’s no secret that scientist-types tend to be very creative people, or that artist-types often have an affinity for the sciences. Which is why we think that if Picasso were alive today, he might have been a science multimedia blogger, taking a Rubik’s cubistic approach to explain mathematics […]
Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia editor
Once upon a time, before the Internet, Raymond studied the hydrodynamics of sand dollars. Now a lapsed scientist, he remains intrigued with the natural world but has become more interested in the different ways to communicate scientific ideas and positively affect attitudes about science. He has been part of Science Borealis since it was no […]