Science Literacy Week @ McGill: We love science!

We love science and we want to share some of our favourite resources:

McGill University

• The Turret: From Schulich Library, where they blog about about science, technology, and medicine and how they intersect with scholarly and popular communication.
• Redpath Museum: The museum is on the downtown McGill University campus and is free for the general public. Exhibits focus on natural history, world cultures (ethnology), and mineralogy. Popular specimens include dinosaurs, shells, mummies and a wide variety of Quebec minerals. They also have recommended links to explore.
• Let's Talk Science Outreach at McGill University: Reaching out to kids as young as three up to youth in Grade 12, these dedicated volunteers have pulled together some neat activities organized by subject and age group.
• Office for Science and Society: The Office answers queries from the public, as well as from the media, on scientific matters with a view towards separating facts from myths. There is a lot to explore on this website.
• Public Astro Nights: Free public talks and night-sky observations, the third Thursday of each month, in the Rutherford Physics Building.

Podcasts and webcasts

• Broad Science: A podcast dedicated to making science engaging, inclusive, and intersectional.
• Faculty of Science webcasts: Links to public lectures available for viewing on demand as webcasts or as downloadable podcasts. Includes lectures from the popular Mini-Science series. More recent lectures are found on McGill University YouTube channel.
• AstroMcGill YouTube channel: AstroNight public talks.
• AstroMcGill Podcasts: With astrophysicists visiting the physics department at McGill.
• Science magazine podcasts
• The Body of Evidence: Podcasts by Christopher Labos and Jonathan Jarry with a comedic twist.
• Quirks & Quarks: With Bob McDonald from CBC Radio 
• Best Science Medical podcasts: Presented by James McCormack and Michael Allan.

Works @ McGill Library

• Books at the Library that are authored by McGill's own Dr. Joe Schwarcz
• Scientific American (e-version of the magazine)
• Popular Science (e-version of the magazine)
• New Scientist (e-version of the magazine)
• Physics Today (e-version of the magazine)
• Feynman: A graphic novel biography of nobel-winning physicist, Richard Feynman (Print book available at McGIll Library)
• What if?: serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions by Randall Munroe (e-version)
• Linked: How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life (print book)