KNOT THE ROPE
Cross your arms. Pick up an end of the rope in each hand. Uncross your arms without letting go of the rope PRESTO! You have a knotted rope!
Category: Education
Magic Tricks for Kids
Here are a few magic tricks to go along with the CFIC Magical Solstice Celebration. KNOT THE ROPE: Place a rope or a piece of string on a flat surface, such as a table, desk, or floor. Can you pick it up with one hand on each end, then tie a knot in it? (Click…
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. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”16″ gal_title=”Darwin Origin of Species 160…
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