Dogs unleash science facts with their own 'pawdcast'

Bunsen the Berner and a retriever named BEAKER are the not-so-secret ingredients behind a social media science experiment that has gotten a lot of tails … er, tongues … wagging. 

It all started when Jason Zackowski, a chemistry teacher at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School in Red Deer, Alta., added a Bernese mountain dog to his family. 

Zackowski named the puppy Bunsen, a playful nod to the breed’s nickname as Berners (bunsen burners are a type of gas burner commonly used in lab experiments). Then he started sharing photos of Bunsen on Twitter and Instagram. 

“Because of his name, and because I’m a science teacher and I’m a