Science, Technology & Environment

Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown

In his recent biography of Roald Amundsen, The Last Viking, Stephen R. Bown describes the Norwegian explorer’s awareness of living at a time when the window for achieving greatness in an expeditionary context was closing. ... Read More »

December 14, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment

Back to the Well: Rethinking the Future of Water

By Marq de Villiers

Nova Scotia resident Marq de Villiers won a Governor General’s Literary Award for his 1999 book, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, a look at the political, environmental, and cultural uses and misuses ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk is no stranger to environmental controversies. In his new book, the author of Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil and Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent brings us ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life

By Colin Ellard

As anyone who grew up in a generic North American suburb knows all too well, it is possible to hate a place with a passion. So, too, is it possible to love a neighbourhood or ... Read More »

August 10, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Unflattening

By Nick Sousanis

Can comics inspire the next leap in the way we think about physics, philosophy, or even our everyday lives? That is the question at the heart of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening, an extended graphic essay designed ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet

By Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Reflecting on a girlhood spent in the Arctic town of Kuujjuaq, Sheila Watt-Cloutier describes herself as “a cautious child who didn’t like taking big risks.” That characterization may seem surprising coming from an Inuk woman ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Last Bonobo: A Journey into the Congo

By Deni Béchard

To tell the story of Earth’s last wild bonobos – along with chimpanzees, humankind’s closest genetic relatives – author Deni Béchard travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Bonobo Conservation Institute, a small ... Read More »

June 11, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

The Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse and Other Topics of Mild Concern

By Scott Feschuk

Scott Feschuk is an extremely funny guy, which is a good thing given his abundant presence on Canadian newsstands. Both as a political speechwriter and a humour columnist, he has written for a variety of ... Read More »

December 22, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age

By Cory Doctorow

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free is a book that’s very clear about what it is and what it isn’t. What it is: a toolkit for anyone with a stake in making a “creative wage” ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent

By Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is a clever and resourceful writer. He has to be in Kitten Clone, because the topic of global tech companies is enough to make even the biggest fans of Generation X tune out. ... Read More »

November 10, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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