Vaccines Cause Optimism
A question posed by a parent in an antivaccine Facebook group: Measles was declared “eliminated” in Canada in 1998, and in the US in 2000. Perhaps this has caused people…
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Brief Overview of GMOs
In Canada, we live in a society where we can walk into any grocery store and find an immense variety of safe, high-quality produce grown in different continents available for…
Could Earth Collide with an Asteroid?
Asteroids are left over material from the formation of the solar system which primarily orbit around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally due to perturbations in the orbit due…
Global Warming vs Climate Change
Global warming refers to the increase in the average global temperature. Climate change refers to the changes in long-term weather patterns including precipitation, droughts, and other severe weather events. Global…
A really useful machine
The other day someone came to me and asked my advice concerning the potential purchase of a new machine. It was meant to help with the following problem: Software often…