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Summerasaurus Part II: A Day in the Quarry
Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs. Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing
From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project…Artifacts galore!
By Daniel Kwan, Gallery Facillitator and Volunteer It’s been a tiring 6 weeks! With only a week and a half left in the students’ visit to Jordan, our excavation efforts came to a close. Excavations in our new unit, 5M11A1, have yielded an incredible number of objects in just a few days.
I found what looks like a tiny “caterpillar” in my home. What is it?
This is my second posting that takes a closer look at some of the critters that share our spaces. Here I examine one of our most common household guests, the carpet beetle. The larvae look like tiny, furry, ‘caterpillars’. Larva of a carpet beetle, family Dermestidae, also known as skin or
Three Questions with Cyrus Sundar Singh
Popular imagery of India is often full of bright colours that create vibrant landscapes. Taking a closer look it becomes clear that not only are India’s many forms of street art a huge source of these aesthetics, but also that they are changing. Canadian filmmaker Cyrus Sundar Singh, enchanted
Three Questions for Prashant Kadam
For a long time, bioscopes have been a part of India’s bustling landscape, an aspect of childhood that came and went as bioscopewallahs travelled through the country. Bioscopes are an early movie projector taking the form of a wooden box, the interior of which has pictures that can be viewed
Summerasaurus Part I: Digging for Dinos
Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the far end of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs! Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing
Dawn Probe to Rendezvous with Asteroid Vesta!
By Brendt Hyde, Mineralogy Technician Our solar system is a very busy place! Aside from the 9 (no, make that 8!) major planets and their moons, there are 5 dwarf planets, 3 massive asteroid belts containing tens of thousands of smaller irregular bodies, and an untold number of comets. Image taken
Five Questions for Noah Cowan
Fun fact about the TIFF Bell Lightbox: its Artistic Director started out as a box-office volunteer. As a teenager, Noah Cowan volunteered for the relatively young “Festival of Festivals”, now the Toronto International Film Festival. Since those humble beginnings, he has started Midnight
A tortoise by any other name is…a new species.
In 1861, American Physician and Naturalist James Graham Cooper described a new species of tortoise from the deserts of California, and a 150-year mystery began. He named this new discovery Agassiz’s Land Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), but the name was changed some years later to Desert Tortoise.
From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project…Crusader castles, ancient cities, and desert valleys!
By Daniel Kwan, Gallery Facillitator and Volunteer The excavations of my unit have come to an end! We have revealed a considerable amount of Iron Age architecture (walls, a blocked doorway, and a possible staircase), discovered a modest amount of pottery, discovered a few very interesting objects