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This hamster tracks his runs on Strava | The Moment
10 Aug 2026
Thijs de Buck tells The National about the moment he set up a Strava sports app account for his pet hamster, Mollie, to log his nightly rodent runs in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Tennis Canada looking to revamp stadium at Montreal’s Jarry Park
10 Aug 2026
Tennis Canada says it needs to keep pace with rising standards on the professional tours and that the IGA Stadium in Montreal is falling behind. That’s why the organization is looking to completely re
Ottawa man with cerebral palsy gets stolen custom-built bike back
10 Aug 2026
Kevin Shaw, a 54-year-old Ottawa man with cerebral palsy, says the custom-made bicycle that was stolen from his Alta Vista home in July was returned on Sunday.
Terminally-ill woman spent 21 hours in hallway at Health Sciences Centre, daughter says
10 Aug 2026
Theresa Chanowski says she only had five minutes to stay with her mother Colleen Titanich after she arrived at a "jam-packed" emergency department on Tuesday. "Seeing what was happening in that hallwa
A proposed $138M rec center could bring new public pool and gym to south Edmonton
10 Aug 2026
A new rec centre off Calgary Trail and next to Strathcona High School could cost at least $138 million. Advocates say the Rollie Miles rec centre would replace the old Scona Pool, which closed four ye
3-year-old girl hospitalized after Maple Ridge, B.C., bear attack
10 Aug 2026
A bear attack in Maple Ridge, B.C., on Sunday has left a three-year-old girl in hospital.
Sask. poet and playwright Ken Mitchell dies at age 85
10 Aug 2026
Ken Mitchell was a published author of both novels and poetry, a playwright and a professor at the University of Regina’s English department, where he taught creative writing. Mitchell helped create t
'Felt like I was Indiana Jones': Taku River Tlinigit elder has uncovered tree carving he made decades ago
10 Aug 2026
Thirty years after etching a face onto a tree on his traditional territory, Taku River Tlingit elder Wayne Carlick returned this year and found it fully intact under a thick layer of bark. Carlick say
N.B.-born sisters in their 90s return to former island home
10 Aug 2026
Aurea Belliveau, 96, and Anna Després, 94, travelled by boat with family to revisit Cocagne Island. The CBC's Rhythm Rathi spoke with them about their nostalgic return home.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
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By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
