Science, Technology & Environment

Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction

“It is to be hoped that human sexual inadequacy … will be rendered obsolete in the next decade.” This lofty expectation, from the introduction to Masters and Johnson’s 1970 book Human Sexual Inadequacy, reveals both ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century

By Clarke Mackey

Modern life is fraught with paradoxes that can be soul-draining. We’re surrounded by labour-saving devices, but none of us has any time. Cultural artifacts present themselves on every screen, small or large, while time-honoured cultural ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Legacy: An Elder’s Vision for Our Sustainable Future

By David Suzuki

Geneticist, broadcaster, author, and social critic David Suzuki is one of the loudest voices in the global green community, and is surely the elder statesman of Canadian environmentalism. Suzuki adds to an already impressive body ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

By John Vaillant

John Vaillant is a literary shaman. The mixture of fact, conjecture, and superstition he concocted for 2005’s The Golden Spruce was pure magic and earned him the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. That same ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Global Forest

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger

In the introduction to her new book, Canadian botanist, researcher, and lecturer Diana Beresford-Kroeger recalls the way Irish storytellers, the “living memory bank of [their] race,” treated their subjects. The rhythm and style of Beresford-Kroeger’s ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them

By Laurence Packer

No matter what you eat, how you dress, or where you live, your life would change for the worse if a few key insects disappeared. Although there are only a handful of pollinators among the ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Up North Again: More of Ontario’s Wilderness from Ladybugs to the Pleiades

By Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner

Up North Again, by journalists and outdoor enthusiasts Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner, gives readers a glimpse of the natural wonders of southern Shield country (the “up north” of most Ontario city dwellers). It is ... Read More »

August 23, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Flights of Imagination: Extraordinary Writing About Birds

By Richard Cannings, ed.

The sex lives of birds is an intriguing topic, about which most of us have little or no knowledge. Did you know, for instance, that Australian male superb fairy-wrens court their sweethearts with yellow flowers; ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Bird Detective: Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds

By Bridget Stutchbury; Julie Zickefoose, illus

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A History of Marriage

By Elizabeth Abbott

What are the core values of marriage? How does money, or the lack of it, affect the roles of spouses? What became of the double standard that permitted “a husband to take legal action against ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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