All posts tagged science & technology

Wednesday Night #1377
July 23, 2008, 1 Comment

See photos and more We have the great joy of the presence of our son Marc and his brilliant wife Jean from Singapore. Sa ...

Wednesday Night #1366 – The Report
May 7, 2008, 1 Comment

We talked about the moon which made me think about Odysseus who must have spent a lot of time looking at it as he was tr ...

Wednesday Night #1356
February 27, 2008, 4 Comments

We welcome two new faces this week, guest experts, who bring knowledge of at least three extremely pertinent topics to t ...

Wednesday Night #1345 – with Marc Garneau
December 12, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1345 – with Marc Garneau

Photos of the evening by Robert Galbraith The timing of Mr. Garneau’s first visit to Wednesday Night could not pos ...

Wednesday Night #1334
September 26, 2007, 1 Comment

26 September 2007 This is National Biotechnology Week which we would have expected to produce great chest-thumping from ...

Wednesday Night #1326
August 1, 2007, 4 Comments

1 August 2007 It is indeed the Dog Days of Summer and we feel appropriately listless (despite Peter Trent’s avowal ...

Wednesday Night #1259 – Dr. René Roy and Cuba
April 19, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1259 – Dr. René Roy and Cuba

19 April 2006 Introduction Appropriately for the 45th anniversary of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion [see also archi ...

Wednesday Night #1224: the Singapore model
August 17, 2005, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1224: the Singapore model

Who runs our society? The pithy report delivered by one Wednesday Nighter on Ralph Nader’s recent lecture on civic ...

Wednesday Night #864 – China
September 23, 1998, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #864 – China

March 18, 2008 This makes for fascinating reading 10 years later. Note the absence of any reference to environmental con ...

Wednesday Night #777 Avro Arrow
January 22, 1997, 1 Comment

Photo credit: John Major/Postmedia News Files The Arrow’s debut to the world as it was pulled out of the hanger to ...