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17 year-old Hayley Todesco from Calgary has invented a more efficient way to detoxify Calgary’s oil sands. Her bioreactors will take decades instead of centuries to sustainably clean up the oil failings pools.
She’s beat out her fellow Canadian students to represent our country in Google’s international science fair this coming September where she will be among the top 90 finalists of the world.
She’s the second Canadian girl to do this, following Anne Makosinski from Vancouver who actually won at the finals last year for her invention of a flashlight powered by the heat of your hand.
The top prize is $50,000 plus scholarships and scientific expeditions.
Melissa Dring, a police forensic artist, spent three years analyzing descriptions of Jane Austen from friends and family members, looking at portraits and daguerrotypes of relatives to find common features and produce the most scientifically accurate waxwork portrait of the author for the Jane Austen Centre, in Bath England.
Dring’s research allowed her to identify an Austen family look composed of bright eyes, a long nose, and a small, narrow mouth. Dring suggests that Jane would have had her father’s curly brown hair and hazel eyes.
