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Posts for January 2010


Art Accidents


Posted by Sarah Everest on Friday, January 29, 2010




When visiting a museum or gallery we're always reminded not to touch anything. But we're only human. The reality is: accidents happen.

Last week, a woman attending an art class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York lost her balance and fell onto an original Picasso.

When she got up, the ...

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Mars Spirit Rover Renewed


Posted by Graham Lanktree on Thursday, January 28, 2010




After six years of unprecedented science exploration this month, the Mars Spirit Rover is now designated a stationary science platform.




Could new Stoves for Developing Countries Slow Climate Change?


Posted by Ainslie Cruickshank on Thursday, January 28, 2010




If you ask someone from the Aprovecho Research Center, the answer might be yes, stoves can change climate change.

Every year for the past 10 years the ARC has held a Stove Camp. According to an article in The New Yorker, the goal of the camp is to design cheap, clean burning stoves that could be ...




Thirty-Metre Telescope


Posted by Mathew Klie-Cribb on Tuesday, January 26, 2010




When it comes to telescopes, the bigger the better I always say. A new telescope being planned by the Thirty Metre Telescope Project -an international partnership between the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy, the California Institute of Technology and the University of ...

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Wild Horses Soon to be Protected


Posted by Ainslie Cruickshank on Tuesday, January 26, 2010




Chasing Wild Horses - Clip 2 of 4 from Roberto Dutesco on Vimeo.

Monday, Environment Minister Jim Prentice and Nova Scotia’s Minister of Natural Resources, John MacDonell, announced their governments' commitment to protecting Sable Island as a national park or national wildlife reserve.

The island, located about 300 km southeast of Halifax, is home to between ...



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