Bats & Woolly Mammoths With Cylita Guy
We love bats and so does our guest this week. Cylita Guy is a PhD researcher at University of Toronto studying zoonotic diseases and their wildlife reservoirs and she talks to us about her focus on bats. She also works for the Ontario Science Centre which has just launched a new exhibit, Mammoths & Mastodons:... Read More
Anonymous Researcher Gabriella Coleman & Super Bowl Tech
Are there women in Anonymous? And what actions would get you kicked out of the international hacker group? Our special guest Gabriella Coleman has spent years using her background in cultural anthropology to study Anonymous and find out the answers to such questions. She holds the Wolfe Research Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and... Read More
Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan & Lilly Wyden of Instagram
The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Canada’s new Minister of Science joins us this week to discuss science institutions, social media, and the need to inspire more women to take an interest in science. kirstyduncan.liberal.ca/ www.instagram.com/sciencemin/ Lilly Wyden of Instagram talks to us about their #Empty events which recently took over the Ontario Science Centre and her... Read More
Cisco Offers Free Tech Courses For Women Entrepreneurs
Willa Black and Donna Cooney of Cisco Canada join us to share Cisco’s Women Entrepreneurs Circle, an initiative that offers 90 hours of free online tech and business courses while providing guiding experts and digital resources to assist women looking to start their own business. With just 15% of small and mid-sized Canadian businesses being... Read More
Hacking Online Harassment & CES Tech Women
With the Consumer Electronic Show over, we discuss our favourite stories from the Las Vegas show including Intel’s announcement of the Hack Harassment Initiative, a campaign to focus the tech industry’s efforts against online harassment that will include Lady GaGa’s Born This Way Foundation. www.hackharassment.com/ We share the wild, creative inventions of some of the... Read More
First Doll In Space & E-Drink On The Tonight Show
We start the new year off by celebrating an international effort to send a STEM doll into space that began with the dreams of a 6 year-old Canadian girl named Abigail. www.lottie.com/blogs/blog/817716…-year-old-abigail We’re also thrilled to see student inventor Ann Makosinski making headlines again with a new thermal energy invention and share how she won... Read More
Blue Whales & Singing Mice with Jacqui Miller of the Royal Ontario Museum
Jacqueline Miller from the Royal Ontario Museum joins us this week to talk about recovering the bodies of two Blue whales from the coast of Newfoundland. She shares her career transition from being an ER nurse to a mammalogist and natural history technician plus her early research into recording the songs mice sing to each... Read More
Ladies Learning Code & YTV Discuss Hour of Code Programming Workshops
Mylie Taylor from YTV’s The Zone and Nat Cooper of Ladies Learning Code join us for Computer Science Education Week to discuss the coding workshops of the global Hour of Code initiative and their own fun week-long TV series of lessons. www.ytv.com/blog/coded-holiday-card ladieslearningcode.com/ hourofcode.com We also discuss Wayfindr, a mobile navigation system for the vision... Read More
NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson & #GivingTuesday
She’s been given the Medal of Freedom. We share the inspiring story of NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson who joined the space agency during the height of segregation to play an influential role in the Apollo missions. www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-…who-loved-to-count With the Climate Talks going on in Paris we talk about Naziha Mestoui’s cool project to... Read More
Bay Bloor Radio’s Danu & Izabela, Nanoleaf Bulbs, & Vinyl DJs
Danu Mandelshon and Izabela Miziala of Bay Bloor Radio joined us this week for a #TurntableTues special. Danu’s family has maintained their Hi-Fi studio store in Canada for three generations, going back to 1946! He speaks about how vinyl has changed over the years as it enjoys a welcome resurgence. Izabela Miziala shares what’s involved... Read More
Prof Molly Shoichet, See Jane Drill, & Levitating Cakes
Winner of the prestigious Fleming Medal, Prof. Molly Shoichet is our live guest this week. She holds Canada’s Research Chair in tissue engineering and is responsible for a breakthrough polymer that potentially could help deliver drugs, stem cells, and scaffolds into the hardest parts of the body to reach, repairing and potentially even reversing areas... Read More
Virtual Reality Architect & Dancing Engineer Layla Mah
She is the inventor of LiquidVR for chipmaker AMD, a new technology that will counteract the effects of motion sickness in virtual reality systems. We chat with Layla Mah about what causes some people to feel queasy in movie experiences and explore her sense of adventure that has lead her to passions in the real... Read More
GoDaddy VP Jill Schoolenberg, Twitch Creative, Russian Women On The Moon
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… GoDaddy’s expansion into Canada brings new women in tech leadership roles such as Vice President Jill Schoolenberg who discusses with us issues on #WomenInTech and her past experience working for Microsoft. ca.godaddy.com/ We also check out the advantages for... Read More
Spider Expert Catherine Scott, Theranos, & #ElectronicHalloween
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Entomologist and Twitter Spiderlebrity Catherine Scott joins us for Halloween to explain why you’re more likely to see spiders in your home and why you certainly shouldn’t be afraid of them. If you do find a creature of... Read More
Clara Venice, Nobel Winner YouYou Tu, & Cranberry VR
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Electronic pop musician Clara Venice is our in-studio guest. We talk with her about using 72 instruments to record her new album Electric Dream and her use of virtual clones to form a band for her wildly entertaining stage... Read More
Stuntwoman Angelica Lisk-Hann & L’Oreal’s #ChangeTheNumbers
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Canadian Stuntwoman extraordinaire Angelica Lisk-Hann is out in-studio guest and she talks about her twenty years of performing and coordinating stunts for Alien Vs. Predator, Dawn of the Dead, Kick-Ass 2, and The Book of Negroes. She’s currently working... Read More
Metro Reviews: LEGO Dimensions, Cat Videos, Invaders 2015
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Oct. 5th Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong By Caroline Casey & Chris Fischbach Kindle/iBookes/Kobo This collection of essays about internet cat videos is witty, playful, and full of YouTube links. It chronicles the rise of celebrity cats, explores cat video festivals, and questions whether such videos... Read More
Robot Manicures, Code Mobile, & Google Science Fair
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Our team loves NailBot, an upcoming home gadget that can print custom nail art in seconds. Created by Pree Walia and Casey Schultz, we’re equally taken with the name of their new company, Preemadonna. www.preemadonna.com/ We also talk about... Read More
Metro Reviews: The Heart Goes Last, Animal Crossing, Downtown Abbey
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Sept. 28th The Heart Goes Last By Margaret Atwood Kindle/iBooks/Kobo After a devastating world collapse, couples are asked to enslave themselves half the time in prison to earn the comfort of houses for their free hours. In an effort to escape the drudgery, they end up... Read More
Rising Star Cave Explorers, Engineered Eats, & FashionWeek
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… How a Facebook post assembled a team six women scientists for a daring cave exploration in South Africa is our remarkable story this week. We also share highlights from the Beakerhead festival in Calgary where Chefs created some surprising... Read More
Virtual Reality & Online Movies At TIFF
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… From the Toronto International Film Festival we explore the growing digital changes to the festival scene. Jody Sugrue, Director of Digital for TIFF, discusses an experiment to offer movies online while capturing the experience that makes festivals so different... Read More
Metro Reviews: Mad Max, Make Me, Dazzle It
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Sept 14th Mad Max Xbox One/PS4/PC Rated: Mature 17+ A bomb-sniffing dog and a harpoon-wielding mechanic are the highlights of this wasteland excursion where knuckle fights and reckless car battles keep the action surprisingly sane. There’s no revenge, no abuse of innocents to prevent, it’s just... Read More
Slow-Melting Ice Cream & Computing Schitzophrenia
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… The promise of ice cream that won’t melt before youget a chance to eat it has thrust physicist and biologist Cait MacPhee and her science team at the University of Edinburgh into a bit of media frenzy as newspapers... Read More
Metro Reviews – Arcadia, Super Mario Maker, Gourmet Fast
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Sept. 6th Arcadia By Ian Pears iPhone/iPad Free/$4.59 The stories of seven different characters play out in this interactive novel where points of intersection let you hop between them for curious tangents that avoid being mechanical or repetitive by being wildly entertaining journeys through different genres... Read More
Metro Reviews: Until Dawn, Zer0es, Pac-Man 256
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Aug. 24th Zer0es By Chuck Wendig Kindle/iBooks/Kobo When the NSA force misfit delinquents to solve a tech conspiracy (think Hackers-meets-The Breakfast Club) they unleash a conspiracy popcorn adventure with enough tech cred to stay interesting and enough polarizing personalities to make it fun. This fun book... Read More
Metro Reviews: Zombie, Felicia Day, Runner’s World
Here’s my Metro reviews for the week of Aug. 17th Zombi Xbox One/PS4/PC Rated: Mature 17+ Zombie games are as much about managing your fear as they are about survival, something Zombi speaks to with tools that let you detect the creatures of the night with radar and scan the gloom to know what’s worth... Read More
Cisco Emergency responder Sue-Lynn & Sphero Educational Robots
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Our live guest this week is manager of Cisco’s Tactical Operations, a team that travels the world to disaster areas to help secure emergency internet communications. Sue-Lynn Hinson talks about her dual skills of being a first responder and... Read More
Metro Reviews: Back To The Future, Lara Croft, Koi: Journey of Purity
Here’s my Metro reviews for the week of Aug. 10th We Don’t Need Roads: The Making Of The Back To The Future Trilogy By Caseen Gaines Kindle/iBooks/Kobo With popcorn enthusiasm, Gaines interviews fifty people who worked on the time-travel series to tease out stories about its iconic DeLorean and hoverboard sequences while delving with surprising... Read More
White House Demo Days & Honouring Dr. Frances Kelsey
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… With the passing of Dr. Frances Kelsey we remember her long career at the FDA and her historic refusal to give Thalidomide its US release. We also listen in as Ramona Pierson shares her jaw-dropping life story with President... Read More
Metro Reviews: Armada, Rare Replay, Montery Bay Aquarium
Here’s my Metro reviews for the week of Aug. 3rd Armada By Ernest Cline Kindle/iBooks/Kobo Inspired by 80’s movies like The Last Starfighter, Armada is a joyful pop culture romp about a gamer recruited to battle an alien invasion. It has a Spielberg-like sense of teen friendship, but goes overboard in name-checking celebrities. Rare Replay... Read More
Maker Festival and the Death of HitchBot
This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… We mourn the loss of HitchBot after its failed attempt to travel across the US ended violently in Philadelphia and then hear from the techmakers who impressed us at this year’s Maker Festival in Toronto. Ceclia Ho & Hedy... Read More
Metro Reviews: Prune, The Art of Cardboard, Roald Dahl
Here’s my Metro reviews for the week of July 27th The Art of Cardboard By Lori Zimmer Kindle/iBooks/Kobo From creating childhood castles to using storage boxes for our memories, cardboard boxes have long been a trigger for our imagination. Filled with zoomable photos, this gorgeous ebook explores the intricate roller-coasters, geodesic domes, and astonishing sculptures... Read More
Metro Reviews: Go Set A Watchman, Styx: Master of Shadows
Here’s my Metro reviews for the week of July 20th. Go Set A Watchman Kindle/iBooks/Kobo Best approached as an early, messy attempt by lee at exploring race issues better handled in Mockingbird, Watchman is distressing for its alternate take on Atticus, but notable for its journey of an older Scout facing hometown pressures to conform... Read More
Metro Reviews: Rocket League, Big Bang Theory, Star Wars
Here’s my Metro Reviews for the week of July 13th The Science of TV’s the Big Bang Theory Kindle/iBooks/Kobo Dave Zobel Where exactly is Leonard and Sheldon’s apartment in real life? This amusing guide tries to solve the fan question while lightly explaining science from the show such as Occum’s Razor, the gravitation prowess of... Read More
Metro Reviews: Batman Arkham Knight, Book of Numbers, Gran Text Auto
Here’s my Metro reviews for the week of July 6th Batman: Arkham Knight PS4/Xbox One Rated: Mature 17+ Gotham has grown to the size of four games, leaving it up to you to choose which emergencies to save and which villains to chase after. It’s not just the freedom to explore that allows for this,... Read More
Reddit Revolt & the Scent of a Perfect Rose
Skip to the 1:26 mark to listen. This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Victoria Taylor, whose abrupt termination from Reddit caused a massive uproar from the community’s moderators. We discuss how her role as the director of the popular AMA series offers insights into what’s... Read More
Metro Reviews: Charlie Martz, Her Story
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of June 29th Charlie Martz and Other Stories Elmore Leonard Kindle/iBooks/Kobo It’s fitting that Leonard’s last book contains his earliest writings, short stories excitedly written when he was setting out to be an author. Between pulpy tales of cowboys and observant slices of awkward lives, his enthusiasm... Read More
Metro News: LEGO Jurassic World, Do Not Sell At Any Price
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of June 22nd. LEGO Jurassic World PS3/PS4/Xbox 360/Xbox One/Wii U Rated: Everyone 10+ People are eaten, but no one really dies in this humorous brick-building parody that organizes the four movies into explorable parks and story-driven levels. It manages to find an entertaining balance between the chases... Read More
First Bionic Hand Designed For Women
Skip to the 1:25 mark to listen. This week Kris Abel introduces What She Said’s Christine Bentley, Sharon Caddy, and Kate Wheeler to… Nicky Ashwell, who is the first to adopt a new prosthetic from BeBionic that not only matches her physical size, but through a range of special grips allows her to ride a... Read More
Metro Reviews: Dinosaurs, Elder Scrolls Online,
Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of June 18th How To Build A Dinosaur Jack Horner & James Gorman Kindle/iBooks/Kobo From digging up Tyrannosaurus bones to the discovery of fossilized tissue, Palaeontologist and Jurassic Park consultant Jack Horner uses engaging humour to carry us through his remarkable journey of wanting to rewind the... Read More