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Learning to Fly
Have you ever heard the story of Daedalus and Icarus? Simple Science learned about them this summer. But what does a Greek myth have to do with science, you might ask? Everything ( Read more... ) -
Busy Museum Girl...
Yes, I've been a busy Museum Girl. I promise to try to update more often! But between getting up to speed on my topics and other life stuff, I haven't had much time for journalling ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! One of my resolutions for this year is to actually start updating this site again, hurray ( Read more... ) -
Museum Girl is Back!
It's been a long, tough year, but Museum Girl is back at the museum!
It's a very exciting time at the museum; there have been a lot of really cool changes since I left. One of the most exciting things is of course the opening of the Schad Gallery of Biodiversity, which sees the long-awaited return of animal specimens to the non-interactive ( Read more... ) -
Microscopic Worlds
Sometimes we don't realize just how much life is out there that we never even see. Fortunately, through the technology of microscopes, and the power of the Internet, we're able to explore these worlds in ways we never have before.
Here's a video introduction to the protists.
This one is Protists gone wild
This beautiful video shows the movement ( Read more... ) -
Exploring Prehistoric Toronto
Sorry for my prolonged absence -- I've been a very busy Museum Girl in the Peru Dig, and then with ROMKids. I've been instructing Summer Club this year, which got started earlier in the summer with Ecoquest, and I'm currently finishing off with Science Frontiers ( Read more... ) -
A Wandering Museum Girl I Am Not (yet)
A question I get often when I'm teaching, especially in the archaeology and palaeontology digs and in the Digital Gallery is "oh, have you been to [insert place I'm talking about ( Read more... ) -
Get to Know Your Wild Neighbours
Robert Bateman is an artist I really like. Not just because he's been painting wicked pictures of Canadian Wildlife for longer than I've been alive, but also because he's a really cool naturalist.
"I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to ( Read more... ) -
Fainting Goats
Domestication is a strange process. For thousands of years, humans have been taking wild animals (and plants), and matching them up to produce offspring that show a desired set of traits. Do that long enough, you can reduce the nose on a cat to almost nothing, turn a wolf into a chihuahua... or make fainting goats.
Goats are the earliest known ( Read more... )
