Science, Technology & Environment

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

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

Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters

By Alfred Hermida

When an unarmed black teen by the name of Michael Brown was gunned down by police in the Missouri suburb of Ferguson in August, Twitter erupted with outrage over what many saw as an unjustified, ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Technocreep: The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy

By Thomas P. Keenan

We live in an age where the spread of information technology has far outstripped our understanding or control over it. We face the daunting prospect of a reality where privacy is increasingly rare and the ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

★ This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

By Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is angry. The author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, and a self-confessed former climate change skeptic, comes out swinging in a book that takes direct aim at corporations, governments, and – ... Read More »

September 17, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

By Daniel J. Levitin

Daniel J. Levitin, professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience at McGill University and author of the bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs, is clearly in tune with the ... Read More »

August 14, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright’s Universe

By Dan Falk

Journalist Dan Falk combines his love of science – particularly the history of science – with his fondness for Shakespeare in this intriguing attempt to answer questions about what the Bard knew, when he knew ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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