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Invitation to Join the Bark! Buddies
Your invitation to join the Bark! Buddies with behind-the-scenes access to my book launch. By Zazie Todd, PhDThis page contains affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no cost to you. I am only a few weeks away from the launch of my new book, Bark! The Science of Helping...
Murphys Law
Tara Lepine Completes Her Thesis Work
The Water and Fish Program helped support Tara Lepine’s MSc project titled “An experimental test of bull trout egg to alevin survival in the wild, with implications for conservation translocations in Alberta” through assistance with study design and data collection. Tara completed this work out of the Vamosi Lab at the University of Calgary (Steve...
Graphic nonfiction master class
Thalassemia: Invisible for some, deadly for others
Image: Blood Transfusion by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org You might be the carrier of a genetic disorder and not even know it; that was me up until a few years ago. My family doctor noticed something odd in my bloodwork: my mean corpuscular volume (the volume of my red blood cells) was abnormally...
Prepare to wonder
Taking Stock at the End of the Season
The light is changing as we slide into autumn. It pools, viscous and gold, on the leaves of the catalpa trees that have finally grown tall above our gate. It drips over the big-leafed maples, which are already losing their leaves to drought. The dark creeps in earlier each evening, the moon lighting up the...
Meet NCC’s 2024 summer interns: Nicole Aronitz
Nicole is the volunteer program intern for southern Alberta. She studied biology at the University of Western Ontario and this is where she also learned about NCC and our work.
Alfie the Christmas Cat: An Interview with Rachel Wells
Rachel Wells on writing for cat lovers, bonding with a fictional cat, and writing about love, kindness, and social issues too. By Zazie Todd PhDThis page contains affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no cost to you. Alfie the Christmas Cat is the latest in the Sunday Times bestselling...
