Here we present the extended version of Kris Abel’s interview with Leslie Cramer of The Blazin’ Lily Girls, a Calgary-based artistic collective who wowed the crowds at this year’s Beakerhead art & science festival with large, LED-decorated, flame-s...
In this look at a bold space mission to send a probe to bring back a piece of a primitive asteroid, Kris Abel speaks with Dr. Tim Haltigin of the Canadian Space Agency, Dr. Kim Tait, curator of mineralogy at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Dr. Rebecca Ghent, associate pro...
Here we present the full version of Kris Abel’s interview with Trish Lamanna of Site 3 Fire Arts about their RiskeeBall interactive flame experience at the Hamilton SuperCrawl festival. For more information visit: www.site3.ca/...
Here we present the full version of Kris Abel’s interview with Jacqueline Miller, mammalogist with the Royal Ontario Museum, on the process of preserving two blue whale skeletons and performing valuable scientific research. For more info visit: www.rom.on.ca/en/co...
Here we present the full version of Kris Abel’s interview with Jelena Popovic, VR producer on Minotaur for The National Film Board of Canada. She shares the process of taking Munro Ferguson’s animated film Minotaur and Kid Koala’s soundtrack and conver...
Here’s my interview with Chef Caryn Goldin, culinary manager at Entomo Farms, the largest edible insect farm in North America. From crickets and mealworms, in whole or powder form, she dishes on what is driving their growing adoption in our local food industry. Fo...
Here’s my interview with industrial designer and Eve Medical co-founder Jessica Ching who discusses her EveKit home test kit and HerSwab specimen collection device for HPV and sexually transmitted infections. For more information visit: evekit.com/ Here’s th...
Evolutionary biologist and teacher at the Royal Ontario Museum Aaron Phillips has agreed to pretend that the creatures of Pokemon Go are real and, because we know so little about them, new to science. Here he studies the physiology of a selection of Pokemon to offer ins...
Here’s my interview with civil engineer and fashion designer Wendy Ng about her Dystropolis collaborations for conceptual tech clothing and her Hack-Your-T-Shirt workshop from this year’s Maker Festival. dystropolis.com/ www.facebook.com/Dystropolis.by.wendy...
Here’s my interview with Emma Mogus, 17 year-old inventor from Oakville, Ontario and winner of the 2016 Weston Youth Innovation Award for her T.I.C. (Tongue Interface Communication) device. For more info visit: www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/innovationaward/ bookswit...
Here’s our Ghostbusters round table with astrophysicist Rachel Ward-Maxwell of the Ontario Science Centre and creative technologist Alex Leitch, co-founder of Site 3 coLaboratory. www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/ www.site3.ca/ Here’s the full episode of What She...
Here’s the extended version of my What She Said interview with Erin Kennedy who is leading an initiative to inspire makers and technologists to design robots that can assist in clean-up of public beaches and shorelines from the constant build-up of ecology-harming...
Lisa Ellis, conservator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, joins us to share her international investigation into the Boxwood micro-sculptures. Crafted 500 years ago, little is known about who made the astonishingly detailed wooden items that often bear a religious theme, a...
Winner of both the Canada-Wide and World-Wide Science Fairs, Rachel Brouwer joins us from Nova Scotia to share her water filtration and purification system as action is being taken to test her design in Uganda and Kenya. cwsf.youthscience.ca/ We also celebrate David Sai...
What’s it like performing with Chris Hadfield? What’s the difference between a Meteorite and a Meteor-wrong? Dr. Marianne Mader, Managing Director for the Centres for Earth & Space and Fossils & Evolution at the Royal Ontario Museum joins us to discu...
From NASA’s international Space Apps Challenge, we’re joined by Huanning Wang and Tanya Oleksuik, two of the Toronto Hackathon winners responsible for the creative kids app A Kid On The Moon. They represent a team that was among 15,000 people competing acros...
We explore the internal pushback Intel has received from their $300 million diversity initiative, the incredible Hairstyle Archaeology research of Janet Stephens, the Bull Whip skills of Neuropsychologist Jessica Cail, and give a nod to Ellen Ripley as fans celebrate #A...
In 1984 Dr. Chitra Rao became Canada’s first full-time female pathologist. She was also the first in her profession to visit the bodies at the crime scene before they arrived at her morgue. She joins us to share her career as director of pathology at Hamilton Gene...
Spirit, a video game of possession and platform puzzles, won Best Technical Achivement at this year’s Level Up! student showcase. We’re joined by Lead Programmer Samantha Stahlke to discuss her UOIT team’s win. youtu.be/RkhU61v_E6E The organizer of Lev...
A world renown tattoo collector and expert, Louise and her husband Henk are the proprietors of the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum and the famous Schifmmaker & Veldhoen Tattooing Studio. They are leading experts on the history of tattoos and their cultural use around the wo...
Canadian palaeontologist Victoria Arbour is helping us update the science of Jurassic Park as we explore two amazing discoveries that ignite our imagination. Does the recent discovery of a pregnant T-Rex with intact DNA mean we can clone dinosaurs? Will a chicken, recen...
Using her background and training as a chemist, Yvette d’Entremont uses her blog to navigate the online world of self-proclaimed nutritionists and mommy bloggers with a mixture of laughter and common sense to filter out the reliable from the woefully misleading, a...
Twitter software engineer Helen Zeng talks to us about the joy of coding and the importance of tech camps for kids like Toronto’s own Girls Crack The Code. After getting the chance to meet Helen and check out Twitter Canada’s headquarters, three of the Girls...
Community technologist and instructor Lindy Wilkins is our special guest to help us discuss the cool March Break workshops and summer camps you can find at Maker Spaces across Canada. Her own group at Toronto’s steamlabs.ca/ is running a week-long series of worksh...
To complement the issue of diversity that has dominated the conversation around this year’s Oscars, we look at the Academy’s Scientific-Technical Awards to profile the embarrassingly short list of women who have won during the ceremony’s 18 year histor...
Having just won the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, Canada’s highest science honour and won that includes a $1 million prize, Professor Victoria Kaspi joins us to share her study of neutron stars, pulsars, and the mystery of Fast Ra...
She creates clothes that shape-shift, illuminate, and change to match your mood, temperature, and popularity on social media. Tech fashion designer Kathryn Blair joins us from Calgary to discuss her runway designs with MakeFashion.ca, the influential Calgary-based show ...
We love bats and so does our guest this week. Cylita Guy is a PhD researcher at University of Toronto studying zoonotic diseases and their wildlife reservoirs and she talks to us about her focus on bats. She also works for the Ontario Science Centre which has just launc...
Are there women in Anonymous? And what actions would get you kicked out of the international hacker group? Our special guest Gabriella Coleman has spent years using her background in cultural anthropology to study Anonymous and find out the answers to such questions. Sh...
The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Canada’s new Minister of Science joins us this week to discuss science institutions, social media, and the need to inspire more women to take an interest in science. kirstyduncan.liberal.ca/ www.instagram.com/sciencemin/ Lilly Wyden o...
Willa Black and Donna Cooney of Cisco Canada join us to share Cisco’s Women Entrepreneurs Circle, an initiative that offers 90 hours of free online tech and business courses while providing guiding experts and digital resources to assist women looking to start the...
With the Consumer Electronic Show over, we discuss our favourite stories from the Las Vegas show including Intel’s announcement of the Hack Harassment Initiative, a campaign to focus the tech industry’s efforts against online harassment that will include Lad...
We start the new year off by celebrating an international effort to send a STEM doll into space that began with the dreams of a 6 year-old Canadian girl named Abigail. www.lottie.com/blogs/blog/817716…-year-old-abigail We’re also thrilled to see student inventor A...
Jacqueline Miller from the Royal Ontario Museum joins us this week to talk about recovering the bodies of two Blue whales from the coast of Newfoundland. She shares her career transition from being an ER nurse to a mammalogist and natural history technician plus her ear...
Mylie Taylor from YTV’s The Zone and Nat Cooper of Ladies Learning Code join us for Computer Science Education Week to discuss the coding workshops of the global Hour of Code initiative and their own fun week-long TV series of lessons. www.ytv.com/blog/coded-holiday-car...
She’s been given the Medal of Freedom. We share the inspiring story of NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson who joined the space agency during the height of segregation to play an influential role in the Apollo missions. www.nasa.gov/feature/katherin...
Danu Mandelshon and Izabela Miziala of Bay Bloor Radio joined us this week for a #TurntableTues special. Danu’s family has maintained their Hi-Fi studio store in Canada for three generations, going back to 1946! He speaks about how vinyl has changed over the years as it...
Winner of the prestigious Fleming Medal, Prof. Molly Shoichet is our live guest this week. She holds Canada’s Research Chair in tissue engineering and is responsible for a breakthrough polymer that potentially could help deliver drugs, stem cells, and scaffolds into the...
She is the inventor of LiquidVR for chipmaker AMD, a new technology that will counteract the effects of motion sickness in virtual reality systems. We chat with Layla Mah about what causes some people to feel queasy in movie experiences and explore her sense of adventur...
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… GoDaddy’s expansion into Canada brings new women in tech leadership roles such as Vice President Jill Schoolenberg who discusses with us issues on #Wom...