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G. Michael Bancroft
Synchrotron Radiation: The Most Versatile Spectroscopic Source
As a B.Sc. and M.Sc. chemistry student at the University of Manitoba, I was fascinated by experiments involving spectroscopic measurements that characterize (or determine) the atomic and electronic structure of chemical compounds. I was especially interested in the theory...Read more
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Tom Calvert
From E-Mail to Virtual Reality: The Role of Technology in Supporting Learning
Nowadays, it seems that nothing is quite the same as it was just a moment ago.
And if you blink, sneeze, or take the briefest moment to rest on your laurels, you’re likely to miss out...Read more
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Sean Caulfield
Shaping a Visual Language for our Times
In his classic work, What is Art? he Russian writer Leo Tolstoy argues that the point of art is not the product, but the process. The process of art, he wrote, is part of the basic human need to communicate in an alternative language—which distinguishes it from...Read more
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Paul Corkum
From Femtoseconds to Attoseconds
If you were asked to draw an accurate representation of a pulse of laser light that lasts 4.5/1,000,000,000,000,000 of a second (4.5 femtoseconds), how would you do it? Where would you start?
Can’t even imagine such a timeframe? Considering it’s...Read more
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W. Ford Doolittle
Reconstructing/Deconstructing the Tree of Life
The Haida Indians of British Columbia believed that after Raven (a mischievous, mythological creature) created this earth ex nihilo (out of nothing), he coaxed the first humans from a clam shell and made them the gift of fire...Read more
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Francis Hartman
Managing Change by Changing Managing
Eleven years ago I was working in industry, fighting to make a struggling company survive. Everything about the enterprise was traditional: the industry, the management structure, the business philosophy. But nothing was working. The only apparent solution was to create something new and abandon the traditional...Read more
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Michael J. Murphy
Convergence, Interactive Media, and Innovation
What is it about Canada and its people that has caused us to play such a significant role in the evolution of electronic communications and media? Although there could be no shortage of thoughtful theories on the subject, I have my own. Perhaps it is due...Read more
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Catherine Richards
Excitable Tissues and Virtual Worlds: Art, Science, and Technology
How is it that science and technology, often considered indifferent to art, can now be found deeply entwined in its domain?
Historically, in the west, the business of artificial worlds...Read more
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