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Unfortunately the Sun's fusion is failing! xkcd.com/673/ #DaylightSavingTime #humour #SciChat #SciArt

College Students, Professors are Making Their Own AI Rules. They Don't Always Agree | KQED More than three years after ChatGPT debuted, AI has become a part of everyday life — and professors and students are still figuring out how or if they should use it.

College Students, Professors are Making Their Own AI Rules. They Don't Always Agree | KQED
“More than half of students who used AI for coursework had mixed feelings about it, reporting that it helps them sometimes but can also make them think less deeply.”

‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day

Nobel scientist Omar Yaghi made a machine that pulls water from dry air. Magic without a wand. www.theguardian.com/... #STEM #future

March is International Women's Month. I met 10 of Time Magazine’s 100 Women of the Year: Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinem, Margaret Thatcher, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Chase Smith, Lucille Ball, Rita Moreno, Jackie Kennedy, Beyoncé, Irna Phillips. Remembering being in the presence of greatness.

And thanks to the Kiwanis Club of Medicine Hat for supporting the SE Alberta Regional Science that will be held on March 21 and for their article in the Medicine Hat News at medicinehatnews.com/life/local-l... #MedHat #STEM #SciChat #SciEd #FamilyScience #ScienceFair

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Mayo Clinic Minute - How losing an hour of sleep can affect your health YouTube video by Mayo Clinic

Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8 - How losing an hour of sleep can affect your body youtu.be/V10gPhowQKQ?... #DaylightSavingTime #Science #health #SciChat

Agriculture researchers discover breakthrough in fight against pod shattering | The Western Producer An agricultural science team at the University of Calgary has discovered several new approaches to create shatter-tolerant canola crops.

University of Alberta agriculture researchers discover breakthrough in fight against pod shattering - could help farmers save both time and money. www.producer.com/crops/agricu... #UAlberta #AbSci #agriculture #science #SciChat

Four panel b&w Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. In panels 1-3, Calvin has a watering can and addressing himself to a few flowers in the ground, with increasing stridency: “SO YOU WANT SOME WATER, HUH? WELL, IVE GOT A BIG CAN OF IT HERE.” “ITS UP TO ME TO DECIDE IF YOU GET WATER OR NOT! I CONTROL YOUR FATE! YOUR VERY LIVES ARE IN MY HANDS!” “WITHOUT ME YOU'RE AS GOOD AS DEAD! WITHOUT ME, YOU DON'T....” In the fourth panel, it is pouring rain. Calvin looks nonplussed.

Came across this old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon today and immediately thought about the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

*glances at headlines*

No, no reason.

The latest Praxis 'Science Smarts' column in the Medicine Hat News (March 7):

“Aches and Sprains”

praxissciencesmarts.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/p...

Get "chilled to the bone " with this science!

#MedHat #STEM #SciChat #SciEd #FamilyScience

I just did a more rigorous computation for increasing Earth's albedo (reflectivity) using 92% efficient mirrors.

To get back to year 2000 albedo levels, we only need a band about 84 km wide (42 km North & South of the equator) of mirrors circling the earth.

The more you know!

If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings.
#DefyDogma

Snow was heavy, wicked HARD lake #trailrunning today! Got in almost 21km in sympathy support for my buddies doing the Moab Run the Rocks this weekend 😃

Enrich your genetic lessons with what is currently going on in biomedical research. The captivating animated short film, Gene Horizons, explains simply what gene therapy is, how it works, and how it’s already being used in healthcare! @eurogct.bsky.social

👉 scienceinschool.org/article/2026...

Drinking water at risk long after wildfires, study warns Canada's drinking water can remain at risk long after wildfires burn out, according to a UBC-led global review that found water-quality impacts often emerge months or years later—not just immediately ...

Canada's drinking water can remain at risk long after wildfires burn out, according to a UBC-led global review. phys.org/news/2026-03... via @sciencex.bsky.social #CdnSci #environment #science #ecology #SciChat

Stars like our sun may maintain the same rotation pattern for life, contrary to 45 years of theoretical predictions Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their rotation patterns as they age, with poles rotating faster than the equator in older stars.

New high-resolution simulations indicate that solar-type stars maintain faster equatorial rotation throughout their lifetimes, challenging decades of theoretical predictions about stellar spin patterns. doi.org/qttr

Alberta promises billions for health care, but new hospital towers still years away | CBC News As the Alberta government promises to address pressures on hospitals and improve surgical wait times, while also grappling with a deficit budget, there are questions about where it is choosing to spen...

“Where is the funding. What is the timeline? What’s the plan to staff them once they’re open? When is any of that happening? ... It’s easy to promise a thousand beds. What’s the plan to actually deliver on them?” says FOM's executive director, Chris Gallaway.

Burned permafrost peatlands release carbon for years after wildfires In the face of climate change, permafrost peatland wildfires could play more of a role in the destructive cycle of global warming, U of A research suggests.

Boreal peatlands could “flip” from carbon sinks to carbon sources as fires grow more frequent and intense, researchers find. www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202... #UAlberta #AbSci #ecology #ClimateScience #environment #SciChat

Bulldozing Biodiversity, Lecture in English, Bank of Austria, Vienna, 6th December 2010 A guest lecture on the economics of biodiversity management and the problems of the current ecosystems services and market based policy approaches.

Don't you love that term externality sanitised from reality... degradation of the environment, marginalising the poor and indigenous peoples, trampling over land rights, and bulldozing biodiversity which reminds me of an old but great speech
Source: Vimeo share.google/Wxfm9kdkl9Wg...

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Spain said NO to another American war, and the Trump regime attacked them with outrageous lies and threats.

Very REPUBLICAN of them 🖕🏼🤬

The Ministry of National Defense of Afghanistan has officially acknowledged that it carried out an airstrike in Islamabad.

I haven't seen anything like this in 50 years... YouTube video by Pomeroy Art Academy

This is delightful. Pomeroy Art Academy on the new Gorillaz animation.

One of the most impressive finds when we moved onto our small bit of land was to come across some Avondale spiders down by the creek

Alberta promises billions for health care, but new hospital towers still years away | CBC News As the Alberta government promises to address pressures on hospitals and improve surgical wait times, while also grappling with a deficit budget, there are questions about where it is choosing to spen...

Incompetent and cruel.

"“We’re not talking two years away. We’re talking many years away. And Edmonton simply cannot wait that long to get more hospital beds,” he said.

The budget, according to Manns, does not align with the messaging from government."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A photo of a Vancouver Island marmot sitting on a rock. The animal is chocolate brown in color with a pale snout and pale markings on its chest.

The Vancouver Island marmot is one of North America’s rarest mammals. By the early 2000s, fewer than 30 individuals remained. Since then, conservation efforts have bolstered its numbers to more than 400—however, it remains critically endangered.
Photo: Adam Taylor, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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She's a progressive organizer w/ a proven record winning gains for her fellow Albertans and Canada-wide.

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RECENT DRUG ALERTS/TIPS Update for Medicine Hat and southern Alberta (March 2026)

Please review and distribute this information appropriately.

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#MedHat #KeepingSafe #OverDosePreventionPlease #MHDrugCoalition

Warming winters are reshaping Canada’s snowpack Climate change is altering not only how much snow falls, but where snowpack persists and how long it lasts.

Warming winters are reshaping Canada’s snowpack - In an uneven landscape, the location of loss can matter more than the total amount of gain. theconversation.com/warming-wint... via @ca.theconversation.com #ClimateScience #CdnSci #environment #ecology #SciChat

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...