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The Dark Side of the Moon

13 May 2017

While it makes for a great album title, the dark side of the moon is simply a myth. As the moon rotates around the Earth, and the Earth around the sun, the moon is exposed to the sun鈥檚 light just...

Milk Wars: Trump and Canada's dairy farmers

28 Apr 2017

Donald Trump recently attacked Canada鈥檚 dairy industry, calling our policies unfair. Milk supply in Canada, like poultry and eggs, is strictly regulated by supply management policies. By regulating...

PCBs are Not 鈥淭oxic Time Bombs鈥

20 Mar 2017

We haven鈥檛 heard much about polychlorinated biphenyls, or 鈥淧CBs鈥 since the fire at St. Basil-Le Grand in 1988, but we sure are hearing a lot now. There are two angles to the illegally stored PCB...

The Problem of Herbicide Resistance

20 Mar 2017

Farmers who are growing herbicide resistant crops such as corn or soy may start to identify with Audrey Jr. in Little Shop of Horrors. In that film, later made into a Broadway musical, a dorky...

Artificial Turf, Real Issues

20 Mar 2017

There exists聽a simmering controversy about the safety of playing sports on artificial turf. For those who have engaged in any type of activity on this surface, you would know that they聽heat up in...

Plastics

20 Mar 2017

"I hate plastics. We should get rid of them.鈥 So began an email I received. The correspondent went on to talk about how plastics are a plague on the environment, how they contain chemicals that...

A Formula (1) for Science

20 Mar 2017

I鈥檓 not a huge fan of automobile racing, but I do admit to catching a bit of the fever when the Formula One cars roll into town. There is something captivating about these machines, capable of...

Mold...YUUCK

20 Mar 2017

Molds can sometimes grow to an impressive size. A story has been making the rounds in Montreal about a large piece of mold聽being found in a sample of Oasis juice. You would think from the press...

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