Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Check out how this tree grew inside a stop sign and has become a beautiful example of how nature finds a way. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwVSAieoP4Q/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng   ..read more

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Click HERE for a link to the original article The sad story of the SUSPENDED VILLAGE built on a BRIDGE Probably inspired by the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. But with quite another success By Laura Lionti (14/05/2022) Who doesn’t know the Ponte Vecchio in Florence? Famous for the houses and stores built right on the bridge in 1300. In another part of the world there is something similar, but even more particular The sad story of the SUSPENDED VILLAGE built on a BRIDGE # An idea to attract tourism https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.prometeomagazine.i ..read more

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Eclipse 2024: Chasing the Shadow from Niagara to Newfoundland No matter where you are in the world on April 8, you can chase the Moon’s shadow with us across Canada! The Dunlap Institute will be hosting a livestream with partners across Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces to follow the best views of the total solar eclipse. Tune in to hear from astronomers at the University of Toronto on the science of eclipses, the sounds of space, and important safety tips while watching a dazzling celestial show ..read more

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Wear red and green to experience the Purkinje effect during the total solar eclipse By Taylor Nicioli, CNN  4 minute read Updated 10:25 AM EDT, Thu April 4, 2024 During a total solar eclipse, surroundings may start to have a grayish sepia-tone look a few minutes before totality. That’s the best time to view an optical illusion known as the Purkinje effect, best-observed in red and green colors. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Over two centuries ago, physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně noticed that red f ..read more

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Niagara region declares state of emergency out of caution ahead of rare eclipse By Reuters April 1, 2024 Million at one time would be by far the biggest crowd that we’ve ever had. Click HERE for original article. Niagara region declares state of emergency ahead of eclipse TORONTO, March 29 (Reuters) – Canada’s Niagara region has proactively declared a state of emergency ahead of a rare total solar eclipse on April 8 that is expected to gather massive crowds to areas in and around the region’s popular waterfalls. The Niagara region said i ..read more

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Check out this article from the International Journal of Mathematical Education titled ‘A Mathematical Treatment of Solar Eclipse Formation‘ by authors Arjun Tan, Almuatasim Alomari and Marius Schamschula from the Department of Physics at Alabama A & M University from 2016 Abstract The solar eclipse is a natural phenomenon caused by the alignment of the Sun, Moon and the Earth in space and dictated 6by the law of rectilinear propagation of light. It occurs during a new moon, when the Sun is partially or fully blocked by the Moon as observed from th ..read more

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Watch Eclipse 2024 on April 8 from anywhere in the world By Michael McKinnon – A&S Please click HERE for the original article. “I’m most excited to see totality because I’ve heard so many things about it and am now so hyped up about it,” says alum Ilana MacDonald, public outreach, communications and events strategist with the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics. “It’d be a real shame if I missed it.” Eclipse 2024, on April 8, is almost here, and if you’re as excited as MacDonald to see it but are outside the path of totality ..read more

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 The Origin of the Recycling Symbol Please click HERE for access to the main article. The original recycling symbol was designed in 1970 by Gary Anderson, a senior at the University of Southern California as a submission to the International Design Conference as part of a nationwide contest for high school and college students sponsored by the Container Corporation of America. The contest was a result of continuing growth of consumer awareness and environmentalism and a response to the first Earth Day. The symbol represents a Mobius loop consisting of t ..read more

Prepared for STAO by Past President Dr. Ralph Chou For several months, members of the Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario (STAO) have been planning to include lessons on the space and environmental science aspects of the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, for students of all ages across the province of Ontario. The solar eclipse will be experienced by students everywhere in Ontario with many in the path of totality or just outside it. The timing of the eclipse has caused many Boards of Education to make April 8 a PA day because Ontario schools would be dismissing classes for the day as the ..read more

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Water beetles can live on after being eaten and excreted by a frog One insect crawled through the amphibian’s insides in just six minutes Click HERE for a link to the original article This pond frog (Pelophylax nigromaculatus) makes easy prey of water beetles. But one beetle species (Regimbartia attenuate) can escape predation by traversing the amphibian’s digestive tract and emerge, still kicking, out the other end. By Jonathan Lambert AUGUST 3, 2020 AT 11:00 AM For most insects, the sticky, slingshot ride straight into a frog’s mouth spells the en ..read more