By Raymond K. Nakamura, Multimedia editor Give someone a fish and feed them for a day. Teach them how to fish print and intrigue them for a lifetime. Gyotaku is a Japanese word from gyo meaning “fish” and taku meaning “rubbing.” Make sure to pronounce gyotaku with a hard “g” to avoid any misunderstandings because […]
Catherine Lau, Biology & Life Sciences co-editor It’s happening again. You are reliving that moment in your head and you can’t stop it. No, it’s not a bad dream, it’s a real memory and it stunts you and makes you unreasonably nervous. Living a normal life suddenly becomes a challenge. What can you do? Turn […]
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 […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor When my wife and I got engaged, one of our friends gave us a very special card featuring a familiar-looking shape. Drawing on my undergraduate chemistry courses, I identified it as the face-centred cubic crystalline structure of diamond; the little “C’s” stood for carbon. This was my first introduction […]
Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Multimedia co-editors ‘Multimedia’ almost sounds like a quaint term from the time before the Internet, when you might do a slide presentation accompanied by music on your ghetto blaster. These days, however, many things seem to fit the multimedia moniker. Most of the Science Borealis subject categories are defined by […]
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