Science, Technology & Environment

★ Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Flicker

When 16-year old Brion Gysin hopped a train from Edmonton in 1932, it was with the intention of leaving bourgeois burgs forever, the better to become a traveller, poet, painter, and all-around student of ecstasy. ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Human Wildlife

By Dr. Robert Buckman

The average adult is made up of 100 trillion cells. But only one-tenth of those are human. The rest are bacteria, fungi, parasites, and “miscellaneous riff-raff.” That is one of the astonishing facts in Dr. ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Requiem for a Giant: A.v. Roe and the Avro Arrow

By Palmiro Campagna

Numerous books have been written about the rise of A.V. Roe Canada and its development of the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor plane, raising the question: can another book about the subject add anything significant to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness

By Pat Capponi

A key area has fallen through the cracks in the follow-up discussions to the Romanow Commission on Canada’s health care system: mental health. Thankfully, activist Pat Capponi has been paying close attention to the fate ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By Gabor Maté

When The Body Says No explores the intimate connection between mind, body, and spirit through life stories and intimate interviews with dozens of people who have lived, died, and sometimes overcome chronic illnesses. Vancouver physician ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Virtual Clearcut or the Way Things Are in My Hometown

By Brian Fawcett

It’s a common enough story: boy grows up in isolated small town, escapes to big city, never looks back. But author and former Globe and Mail columnist Brian Fawcett can’t quite leave his hometown of ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist’s Search for a Killer Virus

By Kirsty E. Duncan

The influenza epidemic after the First World War was the deadliest outbreak on record, killing an estimated 20 to 40 million people in one year. Kirsty Duncan, a geographer at the University of Windsor, became ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Cure of Folly: A Psychiatrist’s Cautionary Tale

By Gordon Warme

With his book The Cure of Folly, University of Toronto psychiatry professor Gordon Warme attempts to recast the practice of psychiatry as “soul care,” an idea close to its roots, rather than a dubious science ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values

By Michael Adams

An innocuous, unarmed United States with health care – this is what Canada is to many. However, according to Michael Adams’ second book, Fire and Ice (much less intriguingly titled than his first, Sex in ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Secret Ingredients: The Brave New World of Industrial Farming

By Stuart Laidlaw

Stuart Laidlaw, a member of The Toronto Star’s editorial board who has led the paper’s coverage of Canadian farm and agricultural issues, has written a compassionate and harrowing account of the burgeoning industrialization of Canadian ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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