Katrina Vera Wong and Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editors What if Swan Lake were a thesis on avian reproductive strategies? Or The Nutcracker were a paper on the psychoactive effects of glucose on juvenile neural pathways? The cerebral rationality of science and the physical emotionality of dance might seem like awkward partners, but such collaborations can […]
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Spotlight on Canadian science podcasts
Alex Chattwood, Communications, Education & Outreach co-editor We need your help to build the definitive list of independent Canadian science podcasts! Podcasts are an increasingly popular way to create and consume science content. Why are they taking off? I think it’s because science can really come alive through storytelling. To me, a podcast is a […]
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 […]
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 […]