Category: research and academics

• the May long weekend

  

  Is the May long weekend the best long weekend of the year in Canada? Quite possibly, according to the opening editorial that arrived in my email this morning for the Canadian edition of The Conversation — “academic rigour, journalistic flair” is their tag line (check it out, it’s also available en français). I am biased…

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  Johanne Provençal

  18 May 2024

  all, arts, culture, music, events & festivals, research and academics

  Gemini, Long weekend, Tap Water Jam, The Conversation

• the path of totality (factoids, flashback and Rome)

  

  A rather dramatic name for something measured by scientific instruments, “the path of totality” refers to the path of the Moon’s shadow where the totality — the “maximum phase of a total solar eclipse, during which the Moon’s disk completely covers the Sun’s bright face” — can be visible from Earth (definition from the American…

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  Johanne Provençal

  6 Apr 2024

  all, nature & landmarks, research and academics

  solar eclipse

• visual cortex tinkering

  

  I have burned through so many morning candles already this year. That’s one of my usual remedies … to combat the grey daytime sky, the snowless grey ground, the leafless grey trees. It doesn’t tend to bother me, the grey. This year was different. This year it bothered me. On one of those grey days…

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  Johanne Provençal

  14 Mar 2024

  all, everyday life, research and academics