Science, Technology & Environment

Bringing Back the Dodo: Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History

The dodo bird is symbolic of humanity’s often indiscriminate domination over nature. Then along come disasters like the tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina to remind us that domination can go both ways. It is ... Read More »

April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting

By Darren Wershler-Henry

There’s a current vogue for histories of various objects of arcana, but Darren Wershler-Henry takes the genre a step further with a book that is not actually a history of the typewriter – books of ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Golden Cell: Gene Therapy, Stem Cells, and the Quest for the Next Great Medical Breakthrough

By Karen van Kampen

While many North Americans are familiar with such subjects as stem cell research and regenerative medicine from parsing the odd newspaper article, it is probably safe to say that the vast majority of us are ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities

By Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

Ever wonder why we are all separated by six degrees from actor Kevin Bacon? Are you really more likely to die in a car crash on your way to the store to buy your lottery ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

What Canadians Think About Almost Everything

By Darrell Bricker and John Wright

Someone famous – Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Benjamin Disraeli have all have received credit – once said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. That’s the nagging thought many ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity

By Cecil Foster

Exploring the dynamics of racism in Canada is a tricky proposition, for discrimination in this self-professed tolerant society is often expressed in a more subtle, multilayered manner than in America. Author and professor Cecil Foster ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven

By Linda Johns

Artist and author Linda Johns – known as the “Bird Lady of Nova Scotia” – checks in with her sixth ornithological opus, Birds of a Feather. The book is filled with dozens of poignant stories ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy

By Jake MacDonald

In the first pages of his second man-in-nature memoir, Jake MacDonald invokes the manliest muse, Ernest Hemingway, lamenting that all hunting and fishing books end up being compared to the work of Papa. With such ... Read More »

April 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

By John Vaillant

It’s obvious how trees in myth and literature enter the public imagination – Eden’s tree of knowledge, the Bodhi tree, Tolkien’s Ents, H.C. Anderson’s fir tree – but how trees become famous in real life ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Earth’s Blanket: Traditional Teaching for Sustainable Living

By Nancy J. Turner

While the fate of the environment appears bleaker with each new report about global warming or water pollution, there are still those working on the front lines who refuse to subscribe to the notion that ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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