Finding serenity in stamps

Source: Ottawa Citizen

Serenity, a word I used in this space last Sunday to the complete confusion of a couple of readers, is something I associate with chastity, in a sense both broad and deep. Or to be more specific, with stamp collecting. “Calm, clear, untroubled,” from the ...
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Attenborough's new 3D Kingdom of Plants

Source: Big Pond News

Sir David Attenborough has travelled from the Arctic ice caps to the driest deserts, making these remote places on the planet really come alive in our living rooms. He now has a new project involving plants and it's in 3D. Sir David Attenborough s ...
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Chevy Avalanche Road Trip: That's a Wrap

Source: PickupTrucks.com

We've finished our drive across the country last week with a new Chevy Avalanche with a full load of college dorm furniture, luggage, and a lot of clothing. Our final day on the road was spent running across the board of Utah, to ...
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Buying Guide: Best DSLR sensor cleaning kit: 6 tested

Source: TechRadar UK

We tested these sensor cleaning products by cleaning the dirty sensors in a number of Canon DSLRs. We took before and after shots of a plain white wall at a narrow depth of field to show up the dirt and check the effectiveness of the test unit ...
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Super microscope installed at Unversity of Victoria

Source: CBC News

A University of Victoria scientist's 10-year dream to get the world's most powerful microscope built has now come true. The microscope is being installed at the university, and already, researchers around the world are vying to use, said Rodn ...
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University of Victoria now home to world's most powerful microscope

Source: The Province Daily News

Build a better microscope and the world will beat a path to your door. That’s just what’s happening at the University of Victoria, now that the world’s most powerful microscope has been delivered to the Gordon Head campus. It will allow researchers to vi ...
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Miniature mystery solved

Source: The Orillia Packet & Times

What appeals to me about studies of the environmental sciences and the associated ecology is that there is always something new to learn, no matter how much you have studied. I have studied the whole ecology of the environment f ...
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 (Body Only, Silver)

Source: Ecoustics

Performance The camera is quite fast -- generally fastest in its class. It powers on, focuses, and shoots in just under 1.1 seconds; that's not blazing, but acceptable. It takes 0.3 second to focus and shoot in good light, which is a hair slower tha ...
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More options for those suffering from vision loss

Source: Today Online

I REFER to the letter "Reading made possible for the blind" (May 23) about a woman adapting to vision loss by using assistive technology to "read" her books. As an optometrist specialising in low vision rehabilitation, I can vouch for the assistive ...
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