Near every doorstep has a bag of salt on it during the winter – at least in places where snow is the norm – for sprinkling over the steps and the walkway. Meanwhile, trucks drive along spreading salt over the roads. Brittanica says more than 20 million tonnes of ice are used to melt snow […]
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How does Rudolph’s Nose Light Up?
More than 100 years ago, the conversion of electrical energy to light was demonstrated in laboratories as by English scientist Humphry Davy. Since then, there have been several contributors leading to today’s modern light bulb. In a normal incandescent lamp, the filament is made of tungsten metal and surrounded by a nonreactive “inert” gas such as […]
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Dolphins on Finding Their Food: DolphIns have approxImaTely 199 TeeTh and are In dIfferenT colors (their body, that is, not their teeth)— WhITe, Black, Grey, Brown, YeLLow and even Pink and Blue!Like human beIngs, DolphIns are MammaLs and Nurse TheIr young wITh TheIr MiLk. They swIm In “schools”, also called “pods”, doIng some ThIngs on […]
Continue readingOily Birds (Good Oil, That is )
This Month, we are Exploring how Oil can help Birds Better Adapt to wet environments. Charles Darwin was a naturalist in the 1800s. He studied many plants and animals and looked at how they adapted to their environments and how they changed or evolved over time. In 1831, he journeyed to the Galapagos Islands, a […]
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To Hypothesize; to speculate; to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; the first step in the scientific process of providing proof of invented theory. To Think; Famous Genius Hypathia of Alexandria (350/370-415 A.D.) was noted for saying, “Reserve your Right to Think, for to think wrongly is far better than to not think at all”.Our […]
Continue readingScientist Bob McDonald in Victoria, BC, November 22nd
From mad scientists, to lunar landings, to outrageous weapons, science is gracing the big screen. But just what’s plausible, capable, or already happening? Join one of Canada’s best-known science journalists on November 22nd when the host of CBC’s Quirks & Quarks….http://thevic.ca/item/quirks-and-quarks For more info about Bob McDonald’s CBC Radio show, visit here: http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/host/. Bob’s Book […]
Continue readingEnd of Summer Oceans Quiz
Since everyone has either had fun by the ocean side this summer, or still dreaming about being by the Ocean side, here is a Fun End of Summer Teaching Oceans Pop Quiz, to keep the Brain Fresh for the upcoming classes in the Fall! 1. Sea Turtles live in all the world’s oceans except the ____________. […]
Continue readingSeptarian Nodules in The Earth’s Crust
This month’s Science focus is about a most interesting phenomena called a Spheroidal Concretion, and the special “animal” (though not an animal – or was it at one time?) is called a Septarian Nodule. In their raw found forms, one might think that they are eggs, with a living creature inside awaiting to hatch – […]
Continue readingMaking Your own Orgonite Generator
First, a bit about What is Orgone? And What is an Orgonite Generator? Orgone energy is a hypothetical universal life force that was first known coined by a 1930’s scientist named Wilhelm Reich. An Orgonite Generator is a homemade device using a container of inorganic and organic materials, that is designed to turn negative energy […]
Continue readingShaken Butter
In chemistry, the term physical change implies that a substance is changing form, like when water freezes to form ice. The water has not changed its identity, only its appearance from a liquid to a solid. Physical processes like shaking, hitting or even chewing can help things change their form. For example, when we chew […]
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