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Is Canada's Science Minister a creationist? - Bad Astronomy : Bad ... » Mar 17, 2009 ...I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate,” Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail. Wait, what? Religion? The reporter says he was asked about evolution! This makes the... Blogs.discovermagazine.com

Philip Zimmermann: king of encryption reveals his fears for privacy ... » May 25, 2015 ...The second generation Blackphone 2, costing around $700, is on its way this year, and will be followed by a first attempt at a tablet computer. Zimmermann started the company with former US navy seal sniper Mike Janke and the pair have been successfully selling their technology to special operations... Theguardian.com

Case Studies & Customer Success - Amazon Web Services » Using AWS, AOL has been able to close data centers and decommission about 14,000 in-house and collocated servers, move mission-critical workloads to the cloud, ...AWS supports Apposphere's complete technology stack, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, mobile services that... Aws.amazon.com

When these neutron stars crashed, the celestial explosion was a ... » Oct 16, 2017 ...Scientists have spotted ripples of gravity from a violent collision of two neutron stars, shedding new light on the nuclear upheavals believed to have created ...In the end, it only took a few minutes of examining a handful of target galaxies to locate the telltale glow they were after: It would be the first direct... Theglobeandmail.com

Astronomers close in on first direct view of a black hole - The Globe ... » Apr 4, 2017 ...Team of scientists aims to get a glimpse of what lies at the Milky Way's centre by way of a tool dubbed the Event Horizon Telescope. Theglobeandmail.com

McGill astrophysicist is first woman to win Canada's top science award » Astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi has been awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal for her research on neutron stars. Christinne Muschi/The Globe and Mail. Ivan Semeniuk. SCIENCE REPORTER. SCIENCE REPORTER. Published February 16, 2016 Updated March 25, 2017. A McGill University astrophysicist known for... Theglobeandmail.com

Microsoft Buys Stake in Facebook - The New York Times » Oct 25, 2007 ...The investment ends two months of jockeying among Microsoft, Google and Yahoo for the right to invest in and forge close ties with the fast-growing social networking ...The astronomical value placed on Facebook is evidence that Microsoft executives believed they could not afford to lose out on the deal. Nytimes.com

The solar eclipse: everything you need to know - The Globe and Mail » Jul 30, 2017 ...For the first time in decades, the long dark finger of the moon's shadow is set to sweep across the continental United States, plunging entire cities and towns into an eerie ...Many local astronomy clubs and science centres are planning events that will allow people to watch the partially eclipsed sun safely. Theglobeandmail.com

BURYING CARBON DIOXIDE IN UNDERGROUND SALINE ... » Sep 23, 2009 ...This paper examines the many facets of the CCS issue – the science and technology of carbon capture and ...The most effective solution for climate change would be to shut down the large CO2 emitters. ....spending $2 billion over 12 years on its first round of CCS pilot projects, a cost that is estimated to... Beta.images.theglobeandmail.com