March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
“Most of the women I knew were frightened out of all proportion to statistical reality. Although heart disease was far likelier to kill them, they worried more about breast cancer,” writes American journalist Karen Stabiner ... Read More »
Elizabeth May, an environmental writer, has written At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada’s Forest primarily as a wake-up call to alert people to the devastation of Canada’s forests – a crisis that May ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The breast cancer susceptibility genes BRAC1 and BRAC2 flag a risk for developing breast cancer, especially before the age of 50. Since they were mapped in 1990, it is possible to determine which healthy women ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
This is a cult book in the making. Author Christopher Dewdney, a TV media pundit and academic with the McLuhan Institute in Toronto, describes the way people are being changed by technology, concluding that the ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
With the controversy over the recent creation of Dolly, the Scottish sheep cloned from the cells of another sheep’s udder, a comprehensive book on biotechnology could be a welcome addition to bookstore shelves. Biotechnology Unzipped: Promises ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Every new business technology – the photocopier, the fax machine, the desktop PC, the cellphone, e-mail, the telephone, the typewriter – has a four-stage life-cycle: resistance, gradual acceptance, indispensability, and obsolescence.The resistance stage is characterized ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Every new business technology – the photocopier, the fax machine, the desktop PC, the cellphone, e-mail, the telephone, the typewriter – has a four-stage life-cycle: resistance, gradual acceptance, indispensability, and obsolescence.The resistance stage is characterized ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Every new business technology – the photocopier, the fax machine, the desktop PC, the cellphone, e-mail, the telephone, the typewriter – has a four-stage life-cycle: resistance, gradual acceptance, indispensability, and obsolescence.The resistance stage is characterized ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
In the contemporary art world Dian Marino is not a name that stands out. In the world of art education, however, she is a maverick for turning passivity into resistance and building verbal expression into ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The Follow documents author Linda Spalding’s quest to be part of the drama to save orangutans in the rainforests of Borneo.Toronto-based Spalding, author of two previous books, uses controversial scientist Birute Galdikas to tell her ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment