The folks over at the Foresight Institute made note of a competition for visionaries under the age of 20 in a Dec. 16, 2011 posting, The future will not take care of itself. Global prosperity is not ...

Episode #338 (2015 Canadian federal election and science) was originally broadcast on Oct. 9, 2015 and features,. This week, we’re talking about politics, and the prospects for pro-science politicians ...

Being held from Oct. 19 – 26, 2011, the first London Science Festival will be featuring the Festival of the Spoken Nerd; Bridget, Astrium’s Mars rover prototype for the European ExoMars Project; Field ...

Vancouver’s next Café Scientifique is being held in the back room of the The Railway Club (2nd floor of 579 Dunsmuir St. [at Seymour St.], Vancouver, Canada), on Sept. 30, 2014. Here’s the meeting ...

I announced (in a March 26, 2014 posting) a lecture earlier in April (From the ‘Bankruptcy of Science’ to the ‘Death of Evidence’: Science and its Value) by Stathis Psillos being held as part of the ...

We are pleased to invite you to a series of events featuring interdisciplinary artist Heather Barnett and Physarum polycephalum: during her visit, Barnett will present her recent research, will ...

Lancaster University’s June 6 2025 press release offers a preview of what to expect at Glastonbury’s Science Futures area, ...

5 thoughts on “ Canada goes on a science spending spree (of sorts) ” Rob May 21, 2010 at 6:40 am. Hi Maryse, Nice article. I agree that I have some misgivings, but am generally positive about the ...

At the Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada) as usual, this month’s Café Scientifique features (from the March 2012 announcement), Dr. Bruce Archibald, a paleontologist from Simon ...

Aileen Penner, a Vancouver writer, poet, and science communications specialist, is the event producer and I gather the event is doing double duty as both a reading and a demonstration of what you can ...

On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Cafe Scientifique, in the back room of The Railway Club (2nd floor of 579 Dunsmuir St. [at Seymour St.]), will be hosting a talk that might be considered edgy given that’s ...

I’m looking forward to being on the Canadian science blogging panel that’s taking place at the Northern Voice Conference, May 13 – 14, 2011 at the University of British Columbia’s Life Sciences Centre ...