Raymond Nakamura and Liz Martin-Silverstone, Multimedia co-editors With the hashtag PokeBlitz, Canadian entomologist Morgan Jackson used the Pokemon Go craze to encourage people to appreciate biodiversity. This inspired us to peek at other ways computer games communicate science. Benefits “Games are fundamental to the way we learn,” said Jeremy Friedberg, a molecular genetics PhD turned […]
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Science Borealis featured blog: Laura Ulrich – Monsters and Molecules
Liz Martin-Silverstone and Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editors After our Science Borealis Reader Survey, we randomly selected four participating blogs to be profiled here on the Borealis Blog during 2016. This is the second of those featured posts. RN: I’m delighted to introduce my new Multimedia co-editor, Liz Martin-Silverstone, a paleontological powerhouse studying across the […]
Science on set: science consultants in Hollywood North
By Betty Zou, General Sciences Co-Editor Have you ever watched The Amazing Spiderman and wondered about the physics of a man climbing vertically up a wall? Or maybe you’ve been curious about the chemistry behind homemade crystal methamphetamine as seen on Breaking Bad? Those are the types of questions that occupy the minds of science […]
Canadian Science and Art Mix It Up in the Annual #SciArt Tweet Storm
By Liz Martin-Silverstone, Multimedia Editor & Outreach Team If you have been watching the Science Borealis Twitter stream for the last few days you may have wondered what this #SciArt tweet storm was all about. The group over at Scientific American’s Symbiartic started the #SciArt tweet storm last year, in hopes of connecting scientific artists […]
Katrina Vera Wong, Multimedia editor
Katrina Vera Wong is a Korean-Chinese artist, writer, and editor. Learning from literature, botany, herbaria and ikebana, she makes hybrid flowers from dried or pressed plants and calls them Frankenflora. She currently writes about sciart at Science Borealis and Art the Science, proofreads SAD Mag, and blogs at Lifeology. She also created Seagery Zine, a […]
