North York Central Library Blog

The Science and Technology Department of North York Central Library compiles a monthly calendar of free science and applied science events in Toronto. Applied science includes health, gardening, pets and food; all subjects found in the department's collection. Here is the February calendar (PDF).

February's highlights include:

• February 1: The Naked Trees of Winter, a Toronto Urban Forester will show you how trees survive in the winter and how to identify them.
• February 15: Keeping Time: Morning Larks, Night Owls and Circadian Rhythms, circadian rhythms are 24-hour biological rhythms that affect our health and behaviour. Come listen to recent discoveries about its underlying mechanisms and how it impacts the way we organize school, work and medical schedules.
• February 22: Roving the Red Planet: Exploring from Afar, a lecture about the experiments conducted by the Rover instruments, especially the Canadian APXS instrument.

The Toronto Public Library also offers many free science and applied science events:

• Science & Technology
• Health & Wellness
• Computer & Library Training

February's highlights include:

• February 11: Chocolate Festival, at Barbara Frum branch. For ages 8-16 years. Join Chocolate Tales for a creative, hands-on chocolate making workshop. You will learn the history of chocolate, tempering & shavings on marble slabs, molding, and experiment with making truffle and chocolate lava cake.
• February 18: Word Basics Part I: Create and Edit a File, at Fairview branch. Using MS Word 2013, learn how to create, edit and save a word document.
• February 19: The Facts and Maybes about Black Holes and Time Warps, at Richview branch. Dr. Kipp Cannon from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics explains what physics knows about these phenomena.
• February 24: Immunology and Autoimmunity, at North York Central Library. University of Toronto researchers from the Department of Immunology will provide an introduction to the field of immunology, including how the immune system overreacts in autoimmunity using arthritis and lupus as examples.
• February 25: When Proteins Go Rogue: Structural Disorder in Neurological Disease, at Don Mills branch. Within each of the neurons in your brain, an intricate network of protein interactions maintains cell function. But what happens when one of the "hubs" in this network becomes malformed? Part of a lecture series, Neuroscience: How Your Brain Lives, Works... and Dies.

Can't attend a program or want to read more about the topics covered? Try some of these titles: