Flat Earth Misconceptions
Though it seems difficult to comprehend, there are apparently still people who, in all seriousness, believe that the world is flat, and all evidence presented to the contrary is just…
Category: Science Literacy
Evolution: It’s Not Just About Darwin
By the time Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, speculations about biological “transmutation” and the relations between various groups of organisms had already been in circulation…
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…
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…