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09 Oct 2016

Brainwave Expressions At Nuit Blanche With Artist Lisa Park

by Kris Abel

Roleart, biosensor, EEG headset, interactive art, Nuit Blanche, tech art, wearable tech, Women In STEM, Women in Tech

Here we present the extended version of Kris Abel’s interview with artist Lisa Park who uses biosensors to create her art. At this year’s Nuit Blanche in Toronto she presented Eunonia II, a piece where spectators can wear an EEG headset to send their brainwa...

02 Oct 2016

Rachel Pohl, IMAX Adventurer, On Inspiring Reads

by Kris Abel

Rolebooks, extreme sports, IMAX, Mountain Climbing, National Parks, Painting

In this extended edition of our eBook series, Kris Abel meets painter and climber Rachel Pohl to talk about trying new things and finding inspiration to overcome tough climbs through her favourite eBooks. You can see Rachel in the IMAX adventure film America Wild: ameri...

02 Oct 2016

1st Female Video Game Programmer, Rima Break of Ubisoft Toronto

by Kris Abel

Rolecreating games, programming, Ubisoft, Video Games, Women In STEM, Women in Tech, women video games

Here we present the extended version of Kris Abel’s interview with Rima Break, Studio Production Director of Ubisoft Toronto, who discusses her start in the video game industry at the first female programmer at Ubisoft Montreal (making her also the first in Canada...

26 Sep 2016

Flames! Flowers! Leslie Cramer of the Blazin’ Lily Gals

by Kris Abel

RoleBeakerhead, fire effects, flames, installation art, interactive art, maker, pyrotechnics, special FX, Women In STEM

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...

18 Sep 2016

OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Space Mission Special

by Kris Abel

RoleAsteroid, astrophysics, Canadian Space Agency, Earth Sciences, OSIRIS-REx, Royal Ontario Museum, Sample Return Mission, Space Exploration

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...

11 Sep 2016

Interactive Fire Art With Trish Lamana

by Kris Abel

RoleBurning Man, fire, fire effects, installation art, Makers, pyrotechnics

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/...

04 Sep 2016

Understanding Blue Whales Through Their Bones With Jacqui Miller

by Kris Abel

RoleBlue whales, conservation, marine biology, oceans, Royal Ontario Museum, skeletons

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...

28 Aug 2016

Converting Animation Into VR with NFB Director Jelena Popovic

by Kris Abel

Roleanimation, Kid Koala, National Film Board, virtual reality, women in film, Women in Tech

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...

21 Aug 2016

Edible insect Chef Caryn Goldin Of Entomo Farms

by Kris Abel

Rolebugs, crickets, Eating Insects, edible insects, entomophagy, insects, mealworms

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...

14 Aug 2016

Jessica Ching On Her EveKit HPV Home Test

by Kris Abel

Rolecervical cancer, health, HPV, industrial design, medical device, sexual health, start up, Women In STEM

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...

07 Aug 2016

The Secret Lives Of Pokemon With Biologist Aaron Phillips

by Kris Abel

Rolebiology, evolution, museum, nature, Pokemon, Pokemon Go, science, zoology

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...

31 Jul 2016

Tech Fashion Designer Wendy Ng’s Empowering Jackets

by Kris Abel

Rolefashion, hack clothes, hacking, maker, tech fashion, wearable tech

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...

24 Jul 2016

Emma Mogus, Weston Youth Innovation Winner, On Tongue Tech

by Kris Abel

Roleaccessibility, ALS, girls in STEM, science award, science fair, spinal cord, Women In STEM

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...

17 Jul 2016

The Portrayal Of Scientists Within Ghostbusters With Alex Leitch & Rachel Ward-Maxwell

by Kris Abel

Roleastronomer, astrophysics, Ghostbusters, Makers, science, science movies, Women In STEM, Women in Tech

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...

10 Jul 2016

Erin “RobotGrrl” Kennedy On Beach-Cleaning Robots

by Kris Abel

Role"tech women", beaches, cleanup, environment, lakes, robots, shoreline, Women In STEM

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...

24 May 2016

Scanning Sculptures With Art Gallery of Ontario’s Lisa Ellis

by Kris Abel

Roleboxwood, NASA, Nebula, scanning, Science Fiction, sculpture, Tilt Brush, virtual reality, women in science, Women In STEM

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...

17 May 2016

Science Fair Winner Rachel Brouwer On Water Filtration

by Kris Abel

RoleAstronaut, Canadian Space Agency, Environmental Science, Girls In Tech, Ladies Learning Code, science fair, Space Exploration, Water Filtration, Water Purity, women in science, Women In STEM

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...

10 May 2016

Planetary Scientist Dr. Marianne Mader On Meteorites & Meteor-wrongs

by Kris Abel

RoleChris Hadfield, maker, Mars, Matt Damon, Met Gala, meteorites, planets, Science Communication, Space Exploration, tech fashion, wildfire, women in science, Women In STEM

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...

04 May 2016

NASA Space Apps Hackathon Winners A Kid On The Moon

by Kris Abel

RoleApp Developers, apps, Dyson, hackathon, hair dryer, Kids Apps, Lunar Landing, Moon, NASA, Samsung, Space Exploration, vacuum, virtual reality camera, women in science, Women In STEM, Women in Tech

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...

01 May 2016

Hairstyle Archaeology, Ellen Rilpley, & Bull Whips

by Kris Abel

RoleAlien Day, Archaeology, bull whips, diversity, Gender Parity, Hair Tutorials, Hairstyles, Intel, Sigourney Weaver, stunts, Women In STEM, Women in Tech

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...

19 Apr 2016

Forensic Science Pathologist Dr. Chitra Rao

by Kris Abel

RoleCanada, Detective, food hacking, forensics, Hamilton, Homicide, Law, low-sodium, Mystery, Quantum Computing, women in science, Women In STEM

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...

13 Apr 2016

Video game creators Emma Westecott & Samantha Stahlke, Astronaut Jeremy Hansen

by Kris Abel

RoleAstronaut, Canadian Space Agency, Ontario Science Scentre, Space Exploration, Space Simulation, Video Games, Women In Games, Women In STEM, Women in Tech

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...

06 Apr 2016

Tattoo Collector & Expert Louise Schiffmacher

by Kris Abel

Rolemusic fashion, public speaking, Royal Ontario Museum, tattoos, wearable tech, Women In STEM, world culture

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...

29 Mar 2016

Jurassic Park Science With Palaeontologist Victoria Arbour

by Kris Abel

Rolecloning, Dinosaurs, inventions, Jurassic Park, Moon Shot, palaeontology, space, women in science, Women In STEM, WomenInTech, YouTube

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...

23 Mar 2016

SciBabe Yvette d’Entremont On GMOs, Gluten, & Critical Thinking

by Kris Abel

RoleCritical Thinking, Food Myths, Sceptic, Science Communication, women in science, Women In STEM

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...

15 Mar 2016

Twitter Engineer Helen Zeng & Girls Crack The Code

by Kris Abel

Roleairplanes, aviation, Bank of Canada, Canadian history, Currency, girls code, Regent Park, Twitter, Women In STEM, Women in Tech, WWII

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...

08 Mar 2016

Maker Workshops For Kids With Steam Labs’ Lindy Wilkins

by Kris Abel

Roleaerospace, aviation, hackathon, Maker Kids, Maker Space, March Break, Star Wars Rey, Summer Camp, UV light, Women In STEM, Women in Tech, women's day

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...

01 Mar 2016

The Remarkable Women Who’ve Won Sci-Tech Oscars

by Kris Abel

RoleAcademy Awards, Ben Jerry's, bioluminescense, diversity, ice cream, ILM, Kodak, lighting, Oscars, U2, virtual reality, VR Cinema, women in science, Women In STEM, Women in Tech

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...

22 Feb 2016

Neutron Stars With Astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi

by Kris Abel

RoleArchaeology, Astronomy, astrophysics, Egypt, Honda, hoverboard, McGill, mobility device, neutron stars, pulsars, satellites, scooter, self-balancing, TED, women in science, Women In STEM

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...

18 Feb 2016

Tech Fashion Designer Kathryn Blair On MakeFashion.ca

by Kris Abel

Rolefashion, gravitational waves, hacker women, hacktivism, LIGO, tech fashion, wearables, women in science, Women In STEM

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 ...

11 Feb 2016

Bats & Woolly Mammoths With Cylita Guy

by Kris Abel

RoleBats, disease, gene editing, Ice Age, Mammoths, miscarriage, Ontario Science Centre, women in science, Women In STEM

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...

04 Feb 2016

Anonymous Researcher Gabriella Coleman & Super Bowl Tech

by Kris Abel

Roleactivism, Anonymous, anthropology, cycling, doping, drones, GoDaddy, Hackers, quadrocopters, Super Bowl, women in science, Women in Tech

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...

27 Jan 2016

Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan & Lilly Wyden of Instagram

by Kris Abel

RoleGoogle Cardboard, Instagram, Liberal MP, science centre, STEM, Sundance, virtual reality, women in science, Women in Tech

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...

20 Jan 2016

Cisco Offers Free Tech Courses For Women Entrepreneurs

by Kris Abel

RoleCisco, entrepreneurs, fashion, fashion tech, small business, tech courses, wearable tech, women entrepreneurs, Women in Tech

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...

12 Jan 2016

Hacking Online Harassment & CES Tech Women

by Kris Abel

Rolecats, dogs, Lady GaGa, Online Harassment, pet tech, robotics, tech fashion, wearables, Women in Tech

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...

05 Jan 2016

First Doll In Space & E-Drink On The Tonight Show

by Kris Abel

RoleCanada, dolls, dolphin, European Space Agency, sensory tech, space, STEM, STEM toys, women in science, Women in Tech

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...

15 Dec 2015

Blue Whales & Singing Mice with Jacqui Miller of the Royal Ontario Museum

by Kris Abel

RoleAstronaut, Blue whale, Halifax, Helen Sharman, mice, museums, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Royal Ontario Museum, teddy bear, Wildlife Photographer, women in science, Women in Tech, xmas music

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...

08 Dec 2015

Ladies Learning Code & YTV Discuss Hour of Code Programming Workshops

by Kris Abel

Role"Hour of Code", "women in tech" "programming girls" "programming women" "STEM" "mobile navigation" "card games" "coding workshops"

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...

03 Dec 2015

NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson & #GivingTuesday

by Kris Abel

RoleAugmented Reality, Charity, Climate Talks, GivingTuesday, NASA, STEM, virtual reality, women in science, Women in Tech

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...

24 Nov 2015

Bay Bloor Radio’s Danu & Izabela, Nanoleaf Bulbs, & Vinyl DJs

by Kris Abel

Roleaudio tech, headphones, record player, turntable, vinyl, vinyl collector, vinyl DJ, Women in Tech

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...

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