Science & Technology

Articles in Science & Technology

In-depth examinations of the issues that matter in the realm of science, technology, and society.

March 2010

Bird Calling

by Marcello Di Cintio

Captivated by an endangered avian species, the former director of the Calgary Zoo becomes the world’s foremost expert in its propagation


January 2010

Faster, Higher, Sneakier

by Alex Hutchinson

Does Canada’s “Top Secret” sports technology program undermine the Olympic spirit?

The People’s Poll

by Leigh Kamping-Carder

A new way to gauge public opinion


December 2009

Mind Over Matter

by Alex Hutchinson

Keeping a place for thought experiments in an empirical age


November 2009

Whalebones

by David Ng

Saving the remains of the world’s biggest animal

Global Impositioning Systems

by Alex Hutchinson

Is GPS technology actually harming our sense of direction?

Fly At Your Own Risk

by Carol Shaben

Why is Transport Canada moving toward self-regulation for the country’s airlines?


October 2009

The Glad Scientist

by Dan Falk

A Vatican astronomer explains why science and religion are a match made in heaven


September 2009

Connected to the Hip Bone

by John MacLachlan Gray

A aging boomer’s quest to repair the wear and tear


June 2009

How Google Unconquered The World

by Jon Evans

Google’s new Android mobile phone, and why Apple lost the ball (again)

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Galore
Galore
by Lia Grainger | NOVEMBER 2009
Galore by Michael Crummey Doubleday Canada (2009), 352 pp. A pale man falls, lifeless, from the belly of

Off the Rails
Off the Rails
by Monte Paulsen | JUNE 2009
How Canada fell from leader to laggard in high-speed rail, and why that needs to change