A River of Coca-Cola?
By Keith Douglas This month’s riddle will be a simple question that was posed a few issues back: Is there anywhere — not on Earth — where there exists a…
Category: critical thinking
Examining Randomness (Part 1 & 2)
Examining Randomness
Getting blood from a stone? Fossil preservation and misconceptions.
Details February 12th, 2020 marked 211 years since the birth of Charles Darwin. CFIC Ottawa celebrated (the next day) with a get-together including a talk on fossils by Carleton…
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Making sense of medical research reporting in the media
Dr. Michael Allen will cover the common types of health research methods that deal with therapies, and how that research is used to develop national guideline recommendations.
Evolution & Science Pub Quiz – 160th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species
On 24 November, 1859, Charles Darwin started the evolution revolution when he published his book “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species We celebrated this groundbreaking…
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