February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Boy, this Internet thing must be frustrating for marketing types. After more than five years in the white-hot glare of media attention – five years as the Next Big Thing – the goose still refuses ... Read More »
Only a few decades ago, human beings had their first look at Earth from space. Cities, skyscrapers, and other Guinness-Book-of-World-Records manmade wonders disappeared into a swirl of greens and blues shrouded in a white cape ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
On August 27, 1858, the first words sent by transatlantic cable were received on the shores of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The message destined to herald in the “noblest symbol of our generation,” a technology of ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
In a recent essay in Harper’s Magazine, contributing editor Mark Edmundson bemoans the passivity of his undergraduate students. Raised on TV, they seem to him to be virtually incapable of engaging in debate or even ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
In the stories of the Brothers Grimm, children are cautioned not to stray into the forest, lest they be gobbled up by wolves or transformed by witches. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Work is just another four-letter word, the cynics say. Certainly, Canadians talk about it all the time – either struggling under the weight of too much of it or desperate about the lack of it. ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Nicholas Regush is an award-winning science journalist at ABC News and author of The Breaking Point: Understanding Your Potential for Violence. In The Virus Within, he looks at a deadly, little-known virus that may be ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
With contemporary culture in the hands of a dwindling number of media oligopolies, who’s to speak on the quixotic, overlooked, and largely misunderstood battle to create alternative voices? That would be underground culture maven Hal ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
Critical Care is a fascinating look at what nurses do today. In it André Picard interviews 45 nurses working in different specialties all across Canada, allowing them to report from the front lines of the ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
“You’ll notice what they have in common is between the legs. Is this why wars are fought?” This Margaret Atwood quotation is used by Neil Boyd, professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment