Population Explosion
World population has hit 9 billion. What does this mean for Canadians? And what does it mean for humanity?
Category: Science Literacy
Critiquing an Egregious Editorial About the Pandemic
The unvaccinated are more sick, require more care, and spread this disease at far greater rates.”
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 University PhD student Dana Korneisel. Dana gave us an animated informative talk on her research into the possibility of fossilized blood. We started at 7pm…
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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 accomplishment with a pub quiz Sunday November 24, 2019. Teams of 2-3 competed for bragging rights.