Science, Technology & Environment

The Devil’s Curve: A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon’s Edge

Over the past two decades, the so-called “resource curse” has become one of the central problems of development economics. Academics, politicians, and policymakers have all struggled to understand the paradox of resource-rich countries around the ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades

By Marcello Di Cintio

Ursula K. Le Guin begins her seminal novel The Dispossessed with a characteristically simple yet profound observation about a wall: “Like all walls it was ambiguous and two-faced. What was inside it and what was ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives that Changed Canada

By Sandra Martin

With the passing of Christopher Hitchens in December, and the loss of such icons as Ray Bradbury, Maeve Binchy, and Gore Vidal in the months since, the last year has been one suffused with death ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Death: The Scientific Facts to Help Us Understand It Better

By Richard Beliveau and Denis Gingras

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos

By Neil Turok

Neil Turok, a South African–born theoretical physicist, is the executive director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and one of the winners of the 2008 TED Prize, which he received in part for helping ... Read More »

October 1, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Chronic Condition: Why Canada’s Health Care System Needs to Be Dragged into the 21st Century

By Jeffrey Simpson

Canadians routinely claim that no policy issue is more important to them than public health care, yet no one wants to have a frank conversation about the sacrifices necessary to keep it. In an attempt ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

By Alan Cassels

What will happen if I do nothing? Most patients are conditioned to avoid asking that question after a self-assured physician reports the result of a test or investigative procedure that uncovers evidence of a scary ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney

By Julie Devaney

Part memoir, part manifesto, Julie Devaney’s profoundly honest new book should be required reading for anyone who may ever have to visit a hospital – which means, in effect, everyone. The book details Devaney’s painful ... Read More »

August 13, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

By Jay Ingram

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as Mad Cow Disease, is nothing new to science, but over the past two decades the scale of human tragedy and the huge toll on the beef industry due ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age

By Modris Eksteins

Van Gogh. Few other names carry so much cultural weight. Simply mentioning the Dutch painter calls forth myriad associations: the ubiquity of Sunflowers and Starry Night; the mystery of the severed ear; madness; depression; his ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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