Science, Technology & Environment

Introducing WebTV

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 »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Sacred Balance: A Vision for Life on Earth

By David Suzuki with Amanda McConnell

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

The Spirit of the Web: The Evolution of Communications from Signal Fire to the World Wide Web

By Wade Rowland

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

Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation

By Don Tapscott

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

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

By John Colapinto

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

The Quality of Work: A People-centred Agenda

By Graham Lowe

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

The Virus Within: A Coming Epidemic

By Nicholas Regush

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

We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Re-invention of Mass Culture

By Hal Niedzviecki

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: Canadian Nurses Speak for Change

By André Picard

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

The Beast Within: Why Men Are Violent

By Neil Boyd

“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

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