Science, Technology & Environment

Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession

Like hard, everlasting roses, there are hundreds of shades of red diamonds alone, from “water” pink to vivid red. As Matthew Hart’s Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession skillfully recounts, gemstone diamonds ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Cult of Efficiency

By Janice Gross Stein

Janice Stein is a highly regarded political scientist at the University of Toronto who specializes in international conflict and security issues. Why, then, has she written the 2001 Massey Lectures on “the cult of efficiency,” ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Salt Spring Experience: Recipes for Body, Mind and Spirit

By Sharada Filkow and Mayana Williamson

In The Greek Myths, Robert Graves explained that ambrosia, worshipped in pre-Classical Greece for its ability to produce “hallucinations, senseless rioting, prophetic sight and erotic energy,” was actually hallucinogenic mushrooms. Another branch of metaphysics that ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Searching for Certainty: Inside the New Canadian Mindset

By Darrell Bricker and Edward Greenspon

Nothing is rotten in the state of Canada if you believe Searching for Certainty, the joint work of The Globe & Mail’s longtime Ottawa correspondent Edward Greenspon and veteran pollster Darrell Bricker. Canadians don’t mind ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer

By Steve Mann and Hal Niedzviecki

As a youth, Steve Mann fantasized about repairing televisions and radios. The world of the senses, of physical touch, of non-technological interaction – the so-called real experiences of stars at night, rosy sunsets, or leaves ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Wilderness Called Home: Dispatches from the Wild Heart of Canada

By Charles Wilkins

In Charles Wilkins’ odyssey to the mountains, rainforests, and seacoasts of our country, two questions dominate: What is the nature of the Canadian attachment to our land and water; and what constitutes a life justifiably ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair

By Allan Peterkin

One Thousand Beards, Allan Peterkin’s “cultural history of facial hair,” aspires to be a quirky yet authoritative overview of the historical and social roles of facial hair. Peterkin, a Toronto psychotherapist and author, has amassed ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Landscapes of the Heart: Narratives of Nature and Self

By Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson, eds.

The essays collected by Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson in Landscapes of the Heart till the fertile ground plowed by Henry David Thoreau in Walden, focusing on writers’ personal relationships with the natural world. Missing ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet

By David Suzuki and Holly Dressel

The environmental movement has endured a reputation for negativity since its inception. To simply acknowledge the science behind environmentalism is to embrace this negativity – most of the things that so-called developed human society does ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse

By Norman Henderson

The open prairies tend to be ignored or considered fleetingly by many urbanites, a blur from a car heading elsewhere. But in the last decade titles like Don Gayton’s The Wheatgrass Mechanism, Sharon Butala’s The ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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