2015年3月20日 星期五

2015-03-21 Canada English Science


BBC News
   
Arctic sea ice extent hits record low for winter   
BBC News
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has fallen to the lowest recorded level for the winter season, according to US scientists. The maximum this year was 14.5 million sq km, said the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder. This is the ...

Arctic sea ice record low this winter   Times of India
Scientists say Arctic sea ice just set a disturbing new record   Washington Post
Extent of Arctic sea ice falls to record low   Toronto Star
Reuters   
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Vancouver Sun
   
Astronaut Chris Hadfield fires up tech entrepreneurs to push outer limits   
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER - Astronaut Chris Hadfield says his personal "prime directive" is figuring out how to improve the standard of living for as many people as possible, and make it sustainable. Canada's most famous space explorer spent more than an hour on ...

Astronaut wants space travel costs cut to equalize   Agassiz-Harrison Observer
Chris Hadfield urges Vancouver tech community to 'push ourselves to the edge'   Business in Vancouver

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Reuters
   
Eclipse thrills on remote Arctic islands, clouds mar for some   
Reuters
TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands (Reuters) - A solar eclipse thrilled thousands of sky gazers on remote Arctic islands on Friday but clouds disappointed some viewers of a rare celestial show that was also partly visible for millions in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Gallery: The Daily Edit 03.21.15   Charlotte Observer
World News Eclipse treat for stargazers   Gulf Daily News
The last total solar eclipse was in November 2013.   CTV News
New York Times   
Washington Post   
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WWF Canada Blog
   
Celebrate Canada Water Week in Muskoka – “Know...   
www.muskokaregion.com/
HUNTSVILLE – Water is important to the economy, lifestyle and identity of Muskoka. March 16 to 22 is Canada Water Week and Muskoka Watershed Council (MWC) has organized a special celebration in Muskoka at the Huntsville Place Mall. Canada Water ...

Canada Water Week: Celebrating water heroes and saving homes for sturgeon   WWF Canada Blog (blog)
Let's not take water for granted   The Chronicle Journal

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Digital Journal
   
Op-Ed: Mars One success estimated less than 50 percent   
Digital Journal
Mars One, based out of the Netherlands, is a one way ticket to Mars, a mission to establish a permanent Martian human colony by the year 2027. But with new information revealed, does the mission have a chance of succeeding?
Mars One is not a scam and we WILL go to the red planet, CEO Bas Lansdorp ...   Daily Mail
Burlington Mars trip hopeful still wants to go, even as criticism grows   CBC.ca
Mission to Mars CEO denies it's a money-making scheme   Toronto Sun
Phys.Org   
Florida Today   
Irish Examiner   
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Thierry Legault Captures ISS Transit of the Sun — During Eclipse!   
Universe Today
Known for his amazing shots of spacecraft transiting the Sun, today he captured the International Space Station passing in front of the Sun (and Moon)… DURING THE ECLIPSE. The weather is always fine in Southern Spain…except during eclipse days!

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Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre
   
Readers Digest Best Beaches   
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre
Grand Bend and Wasaga Beach are listed in the top 10 beaches in Canada by Readers Digest. Grand Bend is number three while Wasaga Beach is number eight. Long Beach on Vancouver Island is number one. The magazine says "young sun worshippers ...

Wasaga in top 10 for Canadian beaches   www.muskokaregion.com/

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WFAE
   
These are a few of my favourite stings: An entomologist's pain index   
Toronto Star
“Light, ephemeral, almost fruity” isn't the description of a nice champagne — it's a bee sting. That tantalizing description comes from entomologist Justin Schmidt's pain index, which is surely one of the most delightfully absurd scientific endeavours in the bug ...

The Man Who Measures The Pain Of Insect Stings   HPPR
No Pain, No Scientific Gain: One Man's Quest To Quantify Bug Stings   ideastream

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Elmira Star-Gazette
   
Corning Curator catalogs world's oldest telescopes   
Elmira Star-Gazette
CORNING – You could say Marvin Bolt takes the long view. He's on a worldwide quest to track down and catalog the oldest telescopes known to man, dating to the early 1600s and the days of Galileo. "You'd think after 400 years, people would know where ...

Man with a vision: Quest for world's oldest telescopes takes curator to corners of ...   Fox News
Quest for oldest telescopes starting to come into focus   Winnipeg Free Press

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Siliconrepublic.com
   
Springtime Google Doodle has an eclipse twist, depending on where you are   
The Weather Network
Friday, March 20, 2015, 8:29 AM - Most Google Doogles are digital works of art, but it looks like people in Europe got the best of the search engine's artistic talent Friday. If you're doing a search from North America, you'll get the doodle below, which ...

Google celebrates first day of spring, but Europe got the better doodle   Washington Post (blog)

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