Thank You
A few thoughts after receiving the University of Guelph Alumni Volunteer Award. Thank you to my family, friends, colleagues, and community partners - this honour is a collective achievement.
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October 29, 2024 Woodrow Wilson Center event: 2024 Canada-US Legal Symposium | Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Governance, and Liability
An October 9, 2024 notice from the Wilson Center (or Woodrow Wilson Center or Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars received via email) announces an annual event, which this year will focus on AI (artificial intelligence), The 2024 Canada-US Legal Symposium | Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Governance, and Liability TuesdayOct. 29, 20249:30am – 2:00pm ET6th Floor...
Printing and growing lung tissue from mucus-based bioink?
I’m always surprised by the uses scientists can find for mucus. This time, it’s being used as the based for growing lung tissue as this July 30,2024 news item on phys.org announced, Note: A link has been removed, Lung diseases kill millions of people around the world each year. Treatment options are limited, and animal...
Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) shares 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics with John J. Hopfield (Princeton University)
What an interesting choice the committee deciding on the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics have made. Geoffrey Hinton has been mentioned here a number of times, most recently for his participation in one of the periodic AI (artificial intelligence) panics that pop up from time to time. For more about the latest one and Hinton’s...
Nanoscopic 3-D imaging of ancient bone
Nanoscopic, banded collagen protein fibrils from an Ice Age woolly mammoth hip bone. Credit: Landon Anderson Courtesy: North Carolina State University (Looks like a moody seascape to me but it’s not.) A July 23, 2024 news item on ScienceDaily announces the results from a pilot study of nanoscopic imaging of ancient bones, A pilot study...
Critical Networked Experience (part of the international Leonardo LASER series) event on October 10, 2024 in Toronto, Canada
Toronto’s ArtSci Salon, one of the hosts, has announced (in an undated notice) an upcoming event, LASER Toronto – Critical Networked Experience – Jonah Brucker-Cohen – Oct 10, 2024 Critical Networked Experience. An artist talk with Jonah Brucker-Cohen Thursday, October 10, 20245:30-7:30 pm [ET]The Fields Institute for research in Mathematical Sciences222 College Street Register here...
Nano-enabled precision delivery methods for agriculture
A July 23, 2024 news item on Nanowerk provides an introduction to nanoparticles and their potential use in agriculture, Note: Links have been removed, Nanoparticles could potentially help address agricultural and environmental sustainability issues on a global scale. Those issues include rising food demand, increasing greenhouse gas emissions generated by agricultural activities, climbing costs of...
Quantum Studio artist-in-residence Caroline Delétoille gives an artist talk on 16 Oct 2024 at 3 pm at the University of BC (Vancouver, Canada)
The University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery (The Belkin) sent an October 4, 2024 series of announcements (received via email). Here are two of the announcements, Note 1: You can see all of the announcements on The Belkin events webpage, Note 2: The art/science event is second, Note 3: Links...
Are electrochromic films like sunglasses for your windows?
According to a May 29, 2024 news item on ScienceDaily, elctrochromic film is like having a pair of sunglasses for your windows, Advances in electrochromic coatings may bring us closer to environmentally friendly ways to keep inside spaces cool. Like eyeglasses that darken to provide sun protection, the optical properties of these transparent films can...
2000 year old citizen science and 2024 participatory science (aka, citizen science) news
One story features Aristotle and the other features some of the latest (as of October 2024) in citizen science (participatory science) news. Ancient citizen science The story about Aristotle’s scientific endeavours and 2,000 year old citizen science is told in an August 15, 2024 essay by Konstantine Panegyres (McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, researching Greco-Roman antiquity, The...
