Science, Technology & Environment

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

Most people agree the digital revolution has dramatically changed the way we live, with some even taking the McLuhanite line that it has fundamentally changed who we are as well. There is little agreement, however, ... Read More »

November 4, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival

By Giles Slade

The past decade’s catastrophic climate change events, from Superstorm Sandy to the return of 1930s-style dust storms across the American Midwest, are catalogued in this new book, which argues that a huge migration of environmental ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Blood: The Stuff of Life

By Lawrence Hill

It’s impossible to think of a bodily fluid more misunderstood and manipulated than blood. (Well, maybe semen, but it’s a very distant second.) The red liquid that courses through our bodies and accounts for about ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

“And Neither Have I Wings to Fly”: Labelled and Locked Up in Canada’s Oldest Institution

By Thelma Wheatley

Toronto author Thelma Wheatley’s 2004 memoir, My Sad Is All Gone, describes the experience of raising her autistic son, including the challenges of finding him appropriate education and medical treatment. And Neither Have I Wings ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace

By Ronald J. Deibert

Like it or not, the Internet has become unavoidable for many people in the knowledge economy. “Cyberspace is everywhere,” says Ronald J. Deibert, director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, and its reach ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Hungry for Change: Farmers, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question

By A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

In his new book, Trent University professor A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi looks at systemic failings in the area of food production that have created a worldwide food crisis. The problems include small-scale farmers unable to earn ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

By David Waltner-Toews

Shit – a mass-produced, quotidian product – is something that, for various cultural reasons, we don’t talk about much. For veterinarian and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews, this is a mistake his new book aims to rectify. ... Read More »

May 6, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

By Lee Smolin

Explaining cutting-edge physics to non-physicists is a nearly impossible task. Compounding the problem is the fact that physics is grounded in mathematics, and because key concepts have to be put into layperson’s terms and illustrated ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Bog Tender: Coming Home to Nature and Memory

By George Szanto

Since retiring from McGill University, novelist and essayist George Szanto has spent many hours looking out from his writing studio upon the “length and breadth of the bog” that bisects his property on B.C.’s Gabriola ... Read More »

April 1, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

By Carolyn Abraham

With recent advances in genetics, science has hinted that DNA might be able to answer questions about human identity and origins that have previously been restricted to the realms of history and philosophy. Armed with ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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