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Explore the stories of Canada’s farmers, researchers, and innovators tackling big agricultural challenges through fun, bite-sized comics!

Meet Dr. Yefang Jiang’s crop rotation research boosting yields while reducing water pollution; discover Brian Tischler, a farmer-programmer building open-source tools to help farms thrive; and see how the Gjoa Haven community in Nunavut created an off-grid indoor farm for fresh, local food.

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Canada’s agricultural innovators Learn about the real-life farmers, researchers, and innovators across Canada who are using creativity and science to tackle today’s agricultural challenges—told through fun, bite-sized comics.

Was the Electronic Sackbut really the world’s first synthesizer?

Ezra J. Teboul revisits Gayle Young’s influential claim by closely examining Hugh Le Caine’s pioneering instrument. Drawing on unprecedented access to the original artifact, archives, and a playable reconstruction, the research interrogates long-standing assumptions of “firstness” in electronic music history.

Reviewing New Evidence on the Electronic Sackbut: Works in Progress Introduction In 1989, Gayle Young—the world’s leading expert on the art and engineering of musical instrument designer Hugh Le Caine– wrote this about his Electronic Sackbut: In 1945, Le Caine tested several types of commercially available oscillators for suitability in the Sackbut, and conclu...