By Mary Anne Schoenhardt, Science and Society co-editor What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of maps? An old, rolled up piece of paper? An app on your phone? A piece of cultural identity? A map is a symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place, usually drawn on a flat […]
Robert Gooding-Townsend and Katrina Wong, Science in Society co-editors This year we celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. While this is a big moment in Canadian history, it is also a big moment for Canadian science. The history of Canada is so seamlessly intertwined with developments in science and technology that the two are practically indistinguishable. […]
By Jeremy Lane Math & Stats subject editor In the oft-repeated story of the development of the theory of motion, it was Aristotle who postulated (between 335 and 323 BC) that heavier objects fall faster, while Galileo triumphantly refuted him in the early 17th century by proving that the distance travelled by a falling object […]
by Jeremy Lane (Math & Stats editor) and Mykola Matvichuk 1. Using approximations by polygons in 250BC, Archimedes was the first person to compute an approximate value of pi. True or False? Answer: False. A collection of Sanskrit texts called the Sulbasutra dating back to 600BC (and arguably based on knowledge that had existed for […]
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