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Chad Skelton 242 days ago
As of two days ago, I'm on a one-year parental leave. I won't be back to work until late-March 2010. And that means I won't be posting to my Science in B.C. blog until I return. However, I will still be blogging for The Sun's website at...(read more)
Chad Skelton 255 days ago
A neat story out of UBC today about a device their researchers have invented called a "solar canopy" that uses a series of mirrors to convert the sun's rays into banks of lights for use in office towers. I went out with a photographer to...(read more)
Chad Skelton 317 days ago
An interesting story in today's paper about a UBC study that found heart-disease patients from poor neighbourhoods were twice as likely to die as those from the richest enclaves. Though, weirdly, not from heart disease itself -- but from other chronic...(read more)
Chad Skelton 334 days ago
A week ago, I bought a cool new app for my iPod Touch called Wunder Radio that lets you tune in to Internet radio stations on your iPod Touch or iPhone. Along with a cheap set of iPod speakers, I've been using the app to fill my house with holiday...(read more)
Chad Skelton 360 days ago
Definitely one of the perks of working at The Vancouver Sun is, on a clear day like today, getting to swivel my chair in my cubicle and look at this. The handful of other newsrooms I've worked at in my life don't even come close. My cubicle way back when at The Globe was a couple hundred metres from any natural light source at all and the Winnipeg Sun was out in an industrial park. Any journalists out there think they can beat this? Post a comment with a link to the view from your office, or email me at cskelton@vancouversun.com.
