Tech Fashion Designer Wendy Ng’s Empowering Jackets
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.ng Watch her Soft Power runway display from MakeFashion.ca here: youtu.be/-ei3zOS8cIA Here’s the full episode of What She Said
Emma Mogus, Weston Youth Innovation Winner, On Tongue Tech
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/ bookswithnobounds.com/ Here’s the full episode of What She Said
The Portrayal Of Scientists Within Ghostbusters With Alex Leitch & Rachel Ward-Maxwell
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 Said
Erin “RobotGrrl” Kennedy On Beach-Cleaning Robots
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 litter. For more visit: www.robotmissions.org/ shorelinecleanup.ca/ Here’s the full episode of What She Said... Read More
Scanning Sculptures With Art Gallery of Ontario’s Lisa Ellis
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, and Lisa is working with NASA, the MET, the Rijksmuseum, and other institutions to... Read More
Science Fair Winner Rachel Brouwer On Water Filtration
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 Saint-Jacques, the next Canadian astronaut selected for a mission to the International Space... Read More
Planetary Scientist Dr. Marianne Mader On Meteorites & Meteor-wrongs
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 discuss all things space. We also explore the tech dresses from the Met Gala, a... Read More
NASA Space Apps Hackathon Winners A Kid On The Moon
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 across 193 hackathons in 72 countries. Check out their App prototype at: 2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/…on-the-moon And... Read More
Hairstyle Archaeology, Ellen Rilpley, & Bull Whips
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 #AlienDay426. Watch Janet Stephens’ tutorials here: www.youtube.com/user/jntvstp And catch The Secret Lives Of Scientists including... Read More
Forensic Science Pathologist Dr. Chitra Rao
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 General Hospital. Over 31 years she performed 7,700 autopsies,... Read More
Video game creators Emma Westecott & Samantha Stahlke, Astronaut Jeremy Hansen
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 Level Up!, Dr. Emma Westecotte is an assistant Professor of game design at OCAD in partnership with UofT... Read More
Tattoo Collector & Expert Louise Schiffmacher
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 world and have given tattoos to Kurt Cobain, The Red Hot Chilli... Read More
Jurassic Park Science With Palaeontologist Victoria Arbour
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, recently grown in a lab with dinosaur legs pave the way to a... Read More
SciBabe Yvette d’Entremont On GMOs, Gluten, & Critical Thinking
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, all under the name SciBabe and an engaging sense of fun. We ask her... Read More
Twitter Engineer Helen Zeng & Girls Crack The Code
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 Crack The Code teens join us to share their insights... Read More
Maker Workshops For Kids With Steam Labs’ Lindy Wilkins
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 workshops for kids covering robotics, 3D Print, and Minecraft. They run special programs... Read More
The Remarkable Women Who’ve Won Sci-Tech Oscars
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 history and how attitudes and awareness of the issues is starting to change. This week also sees... Read More
Neutron Stars With Astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi
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 Radio Bursts. She is the Professor of physics at McGill University, the... Read More
Tech Fashion Designer Kathryn Blair On MakeFashion.ca
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 that has set the stage for wearables in New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Las Vegas, Rome, and... Read More
Bats & Woolly Mammoths With Cylita Guy
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 launched a new exhibit, Mammoths & Mastodons:... Read More
Anonymous Researcher Gabriella Coleman & Super Bowl 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. She holds the Wolfe Research Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and... Read More
Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan & Lilly Wyden of Instagram
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 of Instagram talks to us about their #Empty events which recently took over the Ontario Science Centre and her... Read More
Cisco Offers Free Tech Courses For Women Entrepreneurs
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 their own business. With just 15% of small and mid-sized Canadian businesses being... Read More
Hacking Online Harassment & CES Tech Women
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 Lady GaGa’s Born This Way Foundation. www.hackharassment.com/ We share the wild, creative inventions of some of the... Read More
First Doll In Space & E-Drink On The Tonight Show
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 Ann Makosinski making headlines again with a new thermal energy invention and share how she won... Read More
Blue Whales & Singing Mice with Jacqui Miller of the Royal Ontario Museum
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 early research into recording the songs mice sing to each... Read More
Ladies Learning Code & YTV Discuss Hour of Code Programming 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-card ladieslearningcode.com/ hourofcode.com We also discuss Wayfindr, a mobile navigation system for the vision... Read More
NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson & #GivingTuesday
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/katherine-…who-loved-to-count With the Climate Talks going on in Paris we talk about Naziha Mestoui’s cool project to... Read More
Bay Bloor Radio’s Danu & Izabela, Nanoleaf Bulbs, & Vinyl DJs
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 enjoys a welcome resurgence. Izabela Miziala shares what’s involved... Read More
Prof Molly Shoichet, See Jane Drill, & Levitating Cakes
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 hardest parts of the body to reach, repairing and potentially even reversing areas... Read More
Virtual Reality Architect & Dancing Engineer Layla Mah
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 adventure that has lead her to passions in the real... Read More
GoDaddy VP Jill Schoolenberg, Twitch Creative, Russian Women On The Moon
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 #WomenInTech and her past experience working for Microsoft. ca.godaddy.com/ We also check out the advantages for... Read More
Spider Expert Catherine Scott, Theranos, & #ElectronicHalloween
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Entomologist and Twitter Spiderlebrity Catherine Scott joins us for Halloween to explain why you’re more likely to see spiders in your home and why you certainly shouldn’t be afraid of them. If you do find a creature of... Read More
Clara Venice, Nobel Winner YouYou Tu, & Cranberry VR
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Electronic pop musician Clara Venice is our in-studio guest. We talk with her about using 72 instruments to record her new album Electric Dream and her use of virtual clones to form a band for her wildly entertaining stage... Read More
Stuntwoman Angelica Lisk-Hann & L’Oreal’s #ChangeTheNumbers
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Canadian Stuntwoman extraordinaire Angelica Lisk-Hann is out in-studio guest and she talks about her twenty years of performing and coordinating stunts for Alien Vs. Predator, Dawn of the Dead, Kick-Ass 2, and The Book of Negroes. She’s currently working... Read More
Metro Reviews: LEGO Dimensions, Cat Videos, Invaders 2015
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Oct. 5th Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong By Caroline Casey & Chris Fischbach Kindle/iBookes/Kobo This collection of essays about internet cat videos is witty, playful, and full of YouTube links. It chronicles the rise of celebrity cats, explores cat video festivals, and questions whether such videos... Read More
Robot Manicures, Code Mobile, & Google Science Fair
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Our team loves NailBot, an upcoming home gadget that can print custom nail art in seconds. Created by Pree Walia and Casey Schultz, we’re equally taken with the name of their new company, Preemadonna. www.preemadonna.com/ We also talk about... Read More
Metro Reviews: The Heart Goes Last, Animal Crossing, Downtown Abbey
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Sept. 28th The Heart Goes Last By Margaret Atwood Kindle/iBooks/Kobo After a devastating world collapse, couples are asked to enslave themselves half the time in prison to earn the comfort of houses for their free hours. In an effort to escape the drudgery, they end up... Read More
Rising Star Cave Explorers, Engineered Eats, & FashionWeek
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… How a Facebook post assembled a team six women scientists for a daring cave exploration in South Africa is our remarkable story this week. We also share highlights from the Beakerhead festival in Calgary where Chefs created some surprising... Read More
Virtual Reality & Online Movies At TIFF
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… From the Toronto International Film Festival we explore the growing digital changes to the festival scene. Jody Sugrue, Director of Digital for TIFF, discusses an experiment to offer movies online while capturing the experience that makes festivals so different... Read More