Miscellaneous Science

It was March 2020. The flu-like illness we had all heard about on the radio was globally abound and had finally arrived on our doorstep. It was a plague that cancelled all plans and ran everyone into lockdown wherever it spread.  As plans ground to a halt, feelings of uncertainty seeped into the cracks of […]

Hundreds of elephants dead in Botswana…the culprit? Cyanobacteria [1]. These elephants aren’t the first account of a mass murder at the hands of these toxin-producing bacteria. In 1979, 148 people became very sick on Australia’s Palm Island from unknowingly drinking toxin-contaminated waters [2, 3], and in 1996, 76 people died in Brazil from exposure to

Think about how much time you spend indoors… In general, people spend over 70% of their time inside (Health Canada, 1989). With all that time spent inside, think about all the dust you’re inevitably breathing in…It’s a lot! Dust is something we can’t evade when indoors. Unfortunately, it’s a repository for contaminants, mainly semi-volatile organic