Science, Technology & Environment

Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay

Anyone who has studied Canadian history has likely seen a photograph of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, even if unknowingly. She’s crouching in the background in one of the most famous images of the infant Dionne ... Read More »

June 21, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

The Longbow, the Schooner and the Violin: Wood and Human Achievement

By Marq de Villiers

Through the vision of journalist and author Marq de Villiers, you can see the forest for the trees. The natural history of forests and the complex interrelationship between humanity, trees, and wood are the focus ... Read More »

June 8, 2022 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

This Is the Voice

By John Colapinto

“Project your voice without fear or favor,” John Colapinto writes in his new book, This Is the Voice. “Be aware of its full, fantastic range of expression, and revel in it.” This exploration of our ... Read More »

April 15, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society

By Ronald J. Deibert

Trying to determine a through line of broad historical periods is at best a fraught endeavour. But if there is a single driving idea of the 20th and 21st centuries, it might well be simply ... Read More »

October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk

By James Wilt

“Today everyone who values cities is disturbed by automobiles,” wrote Jane Jacobs in her 1961 classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities. “At present public transportation languishes, but not from a lack of ... Read More »

June 18, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Return of the Wolf: Conflict & Coexistence

By Paula Wild

Following her award-winning 2013 book about cougars, Paula Wild returns with an extraordinary look at another badly misunderstood animal. In Return of the Wolf: Conflict & Coexistence, the Courtenay, B.C., author delivers a riveting exploration ... Read More »

December 6, 2018 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology

By Mark A. McCutcheon

The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror novel, Frankenstein. In the two centuries since its appearance, the book has taken on the mantle of a cultural ... Read More »

June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa

By Kevin Taft

For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta’s vast petroleum reserves have proved a mixed blessing at best. Even the industry’s staunchest defenders have to concede that the laborious extraction of oil from sand has ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands

By Chris Turner

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

By Britt Wray

“To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.” So says the eponymous vivisector in H.G. Wells’s 1896 ... Read More »

September 6, 2017 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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