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Sleep Tight: A Complete Guide to the Impact, Identification, and Treatment of Bed Bugs
In their bid to survive, bed bugs wait until humans and animals are sleeping, then come out to suckle their blood. Like mosquitoes, these pests use an elongated proboscis to pierce the skin and gather their blood meal. They need to feed weekly to grow through the...
Free Webinar: How to Teach Science in a Covid-19 Environment in various Instructional Models in Canada
Flinn has developed a framework from various educational and health authorities that will provide guidance on teaching Science and STEM. WE will explore the following topics during the session: Re-opening Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Considerations for...
Top 10 Accidental Scientific Discoveries
https://youtu.be/LwZML38Mokc The ten most important discoveries that happened by mistake. 10. Pacemaker (1958) http://invention.smithsonian.org/cent... 9. Saccharin (1878) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharin 8. Safety Glass (1903)...
Women’s brains ARE built for science. Modern neuroscience explodes an old myth – CBC Quirks and Quarks
Historically science has served to prop up traditional ideas about sex roles and women's intellectual capacity with studies that claim to find inherent biological differences between male and female brains. These biologically determined differences, the argument goes,...
Waterloo scientists help create 3D map of the universe – CBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRS-U1EsFPk Scientists at the University of Waterloo played a big role in a 20-year global project to make a 3D map of the universe, which will help improve knowledge about the expansion of the universe.
Recommendations for School Reopening: Sick Kids Foundation
This document provides guidance surrounding the reopening of schools as this relates to the measures to mitigate risks. Link to document
There’s a new comet in the sky: Here’s how you can see it – CBC
If you're willing to get up early this week, you're in for a magnificent sight: an early morning comet. Comet NEOWISE, named for the space telescope that discovered it on March 27, was at first visible only through powerful telescopes. But it has recently brightened...
It Was an Asteroid, Not Volcanoes, That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs, New Study Finds – Science Alert
It seems almost certain that an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs. But only almost. Another competing theory won't completely go away: the extinction-by-volcano theory. Click here to go to the article for complete details.
Viruses vs. Bacteria | What’s The Difference?
https://youtu.be/P_9DXEnEd-Q Dr Finch provides a useful summary of the difference between bacteria and viruses
Anti-Racism Classroom Resources
Dear STAO Members,The recent deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto and George Floyd in Minneapolis have sparked mass protests across Canada and around the world. Their names are two of many who have been killed as a result of systemic racism here in North...
How fast can a vaccine be made? – TED Ed by Dan Kwartler
https://youtu.be/74WQgNa3OsQ
The chemistry of cookies – TED Ed Stephanie Warren
https://youtu.be/n6wpNhyreDE View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-chemist... You stick cookie dough into an oven, and magically, you get a plate of warm, gooey cookies. Except it's not magic; it's science. Stephanie Warren explains via basic chemistry...
