Science, Technology & Environment

The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

While the digital era has ushered in significant changes to the way we communicate, the triumphalist message emerging from Silicon Valley and other tech strongholds tends to shunt aside serious discussion about the repercussions of ... Read More »

March 24, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood

By Kerry Clare, ed.

“Mom” is such a loaded word. Girls grow up absorbing, as if by osmosis, the mother-child relationships around them; then, suddenly, it’s their turn to enter motherhood (or not, as the case may be). I ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

By Ann Dowsett Johnston

When we think about narratives of alcoholism, we tend to default to intervention-style tragedies, in which an embarrassing family member bottoms out via unthinkable consumption, keeping a bottle of vodka in the desk drawer, and ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

By Malcolm Gladwell

Years ago, when I was working as a bookseller, a publicist dismissed an idea I had for an author event within a nanosecond of hearing it. I don’t remember what the specific idea was, but ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be

By J.B. MacKinnon

J.B. MacKinnon is the co-author of the best-selling 100-Mile Diet, a book that drew much attention to the locavore movement. MacKinnon brings the same energy, intelligence, and insight to his new book. Recently shortlisted for ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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

By Clive Thompson

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

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