A High Temperature Superconducting Future
In a study in the journal Nature researchers created a “pseudo gap,” in which electrons in superconducting materials line up just before flowing resistance-free. Sonya Buyting reports.(Click on link...
View ArticleKing Tut’s gold couldn’t save him, but it saved his DNA
King Tut felled by his feet, not his foes (Click on the link for the original story in The Globe and Mail.) Everything the world knew about King Tut since Howard Carter discovered his tomb in 1922 was...
View ArticleCosmic Vistas wins Gold & Special Jury Award
Today I got some amazing news. Cosmic Vistas, the astronomy series I worked on last year, won a couple of major awards at the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival for best television or...
View ArticleTV documentary scripts are a lot like jigsaw puzzles
Writing a television documentary script is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. You have a lot of little pieces that need to fit together in just the right way to see the bigger picture. The longer...
View ArticleMind Controlled Digital World
Experts weigh in on our not-so-far-flung sci-fi’ish future When I started wondering, “When will I be able to tweet directly from my mind?” – I never imagined where that question would take me. It...
View ArticleDesigner Organs on Spark
Back when I was on maternity leave, a senior producer from CBC Radio’s show Spark contacted me to ask if I could look into a story for them. It was about a biophysics professor at the University of...
View ArticleBiohacking on Spark
The process of bioengineering is becoming democratized. People anywhere and everywhere can extract and tinker with a living cell’s DNA right from their very own home. The trend is called biohacking....
View ArticleFlight Safety Reality Check (from a tv producer)
With all the aviation disasters that have occurred over the summer, I can’t help feel the need to put them into perspective. You see, recently, I had the privilege of working for the world’s longest...
View ArticleThe Current, Canada’s Most Listened to Radio Show
As you can imagine with a quality program like The Current on CBC Radio One, the team that puts this show together is its strength. Everyone is extremely intelligent. It’s a dream to work there because...
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