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Edited by Dr. Phillip Vannini of Royal Roads University, Popularizing Research describes methods of communicating research ideas by utilizing more that the traditional publications approach.

In honour of International Women's Day, Women Suffrage and Beyond, a new website on social justice and gendre equality, has been launched by a research team based out of the University of British Columbia.  Women Suffrage and Beyond aims to educate and engage the public in making the connections between the vote, democracy, and social justice.

Giving farmers the tools to fight famine is an article recently published in Embassy Magazine that discusses how climate change adaptation strategies can combat socio-economic issues such as poverty and famine.  A rapidly shifting climate has altered many local environments making them inhospitable for traditional agriculture practices, and attempting to grow foods in the same fashion done by previous

Scale of the Universe is a interactive animation, developed by Cary and Mike Huang, that allows you to view the boundaries of size from a resolution high enough for displaying quantum foam to the macroscopic view of what scientists hypothesize to be the boundaries of the entire universe. This interactive piece displays sizes and scales purely from an objective quantitative angle and is not presented with commentary.