The 50th anniversary of C.P. Snow's famous Rede lecture on the "Two Cultures" has been marked this year, around the web and sometimes in real life too, with various symposia and blogfests…

During the middle Eocene, 45-50 m.y.a., a number of freshwater lakes appeared in an arc extending from Smithers, through the modern Cariboo, to Kamloops, the Nicola Valley, Princeton, and Republic,…

The tuna sandwich has been the staple of the snatched office lunch for a generation. But our favourite fish filling could soon vanish from the high street. Sandwich chain Pret a Manger yesterday…

When the 47million-year-old fossil dubbed 'Ida' was revealed to the world, attention soon turned to the anonymous German shale pit where it was first unearthed. The astonishingly well-preserved…

One story goes that long ago, after the ice receded and the floodwaters lowered, Raven walked along a beach in Haida Gwaii, looking for occupation. He found some creatures in a shell and convinced…

Bounty draws a crowd. Fossil enthusiasts will be heading up to Cache Creek, the gateway to B.C.'s Cariboo Country for a weekend of riding, big, open fields, cowboys and the Eocene fossil beds…

The arrival of cedar, called “Tsuuaay” by the Haida, had profound effects on the material culture of the Haida (Approx 4000 BC). Once they were able to build canoes to fish year round (Halibut, Red…

The Queen Charlotte Islands form part of Wrangellia, an exotic tectonostratiphic terrane, that includes parts of western British Columbia, Vancouver Island and Alaska. I'll be bringing my rock…

HAIFA, Israel, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (ORL or the Company), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that the Israel Corporation (Israel Corp.) and Israel…

SINGAPORE, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - Designed for Technophobes, the Jabra BT2080 is Effortless to use - the Epitome of Simplicity Jabra, a world leader in innovative headset solutions, has today…