science

Grab your friends and unleash your inner geek at this annual, highly popular event. And it’s FREE! ** Thursday, May 18 • 5:00pm-9:00pm ** ** Canadian Museum of Nature • 240 McLeod Street ** Get into some cool hands-on science: ...

** Paul Beckwith, ** a climatologist at the ** University of Ottawa, ** explains some of the scientific reasons behind the record-setting floods along the Ottawa River, Gatineau River and Rideau River. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnpVMk-eDAU

An Ottawa science communication company is working with newly “unmuzzled” federal scientists to help them to present and explain their work in a way that the average person can understand and appreciate.  “Being given the opportunity to speak more often about your work is great,” says RMA principal John McKay, “But if a scientific or technical expert can’t do it a way that is clear, understandable and interesting to you or me, what’s the point? ...

Are you attending Maker Faire® Ottawa, taking place November 7 and 8 at the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park? The Ottawa Public Library will be presenting two events you won’t want to miss! LEGO ® Robotics: Sue Considine, from the Fayetteville Free Library in New York, talks about LEGO® Robotics and Girls STEM Camps, programming that has contributed to FFL’s reputation as a leader in informal, community based STEM Learning and Making. ...

Animal skeletons, dinosaur bones, rare pressed plants, slimy creatures in jars and “visitors” from space are some of the treasures that will be on view Saturday, October 24 as the Canadian Museum of Nature opens the doors of its research and collections facility in Gatineau, Quebec. ...

What a great infographic from Ottawa Bird Count. Numbers are based on observations and information collected by local volunteers. You can read more about the project here and there is a full background deck here . [  ](http://ottawastart. ...

Thanks to David Carroll for allowing us to republish this photo he took earlier today, showing the “tail-end of an annular eclipse as seen at sunrise” from Ottawa. The original, full-size version is here… [ ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_carroll/10644410965/) ** See also: ** Ottawa Nature Guide ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/klein.jpg) Really interesting profile in the Globe and Mail _ _ of Geroge J. Klein . Check out some of the amazing stuff he worked on during his career: _ George Johann Klein was considered one of Canada's most productive 20th-century inventors. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/AtIy8hdCQAEdzvl.jpg) ** ** Here’s a photo of Saturn, taken by Oscar Echeverri using a telescope, on his back porch in Ottawa. Oscar tells us: I took the photo using my Canon Rebel T3 DSLR, mounted to my 8" ...

_ We’re on hiatus this week, so instead of new blog posts we’re re-publishing some fun content from the past couple years. Remember this from July 2009 ? _ I’ve been enjoying all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the police search today for an unidentified object (it may or may not have been flying) on the Ottawa River. ...