by Kimberly Moynahan Science in Society subject editor As editor of the Science in Society category here at Science Borealis, I’m always on the lookout for cases where science has found its way into popular culture. But last week’s news about an unusual dinosaur found in China reminded me that often popular culture finds its […]
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Polar Week 6: Profiles from the Arctic – the making of a web documentary
GUEST POST by Katriina O’Kane APECS member and independent documentary-maker Last summer, my colleague Evan Hall and I travelled to the Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP) base in Resolute Bay, Nunavut. Located in one of the northernmost villages in Canada, PCSP is the main research logistics centre in the Canadian high Arctic. The PCSP coordinates […]
Polar Week 4: Antarctica – Early explorers, terrestrial magnetism and investigating climate change
GUEST POST by Carol Devine APECS member and co-author of The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning Antarctica, like the Arctic, is a harbinger. It holds the majority of the world’s water and ice, and is crucial to the global ecosystem. People first began exploring this ‘last continent’ at the turn of the 20th century, […]
Getting a scientific edge on Olympic competition
Kimberly Moynahan and Lisa Willemse, Science in Society co-editors Love ‘em or hate ‘em, no sporting event captures the world’s attention quite like the Olympics. Whether you’re boycotting the games in support of LGBT issues, or clinging to the edge of your chair with every clap of a speed skater’s blade, the Olympics are virtually […]
Touched by Science
Kimberly Moynahan and Lisa Willemse, Science in Society co-editors We don’t often think about how scientific discovery impacts the things we do as we move through our daily lives. We tend to compartmentalize science as subjects taught as “physics” or “chemistry” in elementary and high school, or as a discipline you might study in […]
