{"id":35070,"date":"2024-06-27T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=35070"},"modified":"2024-06-27T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:34:07","slug":"martin-regg-cohn-the-simple-science-and-complex-politics-of-the-crumbling-ontario-science-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=35070","title":{"rendered":"Martin Regg Cohn: The simple science and complex politics of the crumbling Ontario Science Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/6679de9685be5.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Much of the incredulity over the sudden closing of the science centre comes from people who refuse to believe it should ever be closed, despite safety concerns or declining attendance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/the-simple-science-and-complex-politics-of-the-crumbling-ontario-science-centre\/article_023eabd0-3266-11ef-b0ba-af33e73d2c0a.html\">Martin Regg Cohn: The simple science and complex politics of the crumbling Ontario Science Centre<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>story mentions the air-filled convcrete used for the building is possibly the cause?  if built with normal conrete might last longer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;In fact, the 52-page Rimkus Consulting Group engineering report, released last week, found the air-filled concrete used by Moriyama in construction \u2014 similar to that in more than 100 now-closed British schools built in the same era \u2014 is nearing the end of its life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the incredulity over the sudden closing of the science centre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[149,147,22,431],"class_list":["post-35070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-dougie","tag-ontario","tag-science","tag-toronto","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070\/revisions\/35073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}