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Dancing at the Dead Sea: Homo sapiens: hurtling toward suicide *
You know our messy living space of a planet isn't in great shape when Alanna Mitchell, a sharp-eyed Globe and Mail journalist raised by an equally sharp-eyed field biologist, travels toward the world's most abused landscapes with one big awful question on her mind: "Are humans a suicidal species?
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ENtanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics ****
While Einstein referred to his phenomenon quite colourfully as "spooky action at a distance," how could he have guessed that -- within only a couple decades of his death -- entanglement would be observed up close in the laboratory?
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Forward, into the past *
Why are our imaginations retreating from science and space, and into fantasy? asks SPIDER ROBINSON
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Krakatoa author: 'I still marvel at things' ****
There are few subjects that aren't of interest to the magpie mind of author Simon Winchester. ALEXANDRA GILL discusses his book on Krakatoa, a first love in Canada and his famous mentor
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Nature via Nurture: A genetic truce *
Are humans hard-wired to behave aggressively? Y chromosome could be the culprit in war." Like all of us, the British biologist and popular-science writer Matt Ridley has heard such pseudo-explanatory claptrap too often, hence Nature via Nurture, his attempt to explain why recent discoveries in the life sciences tell us as much about how experience shapes us as about genetic influences.
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Science savvy students Stump for Youth Science Month *
BC students vie for a chance at the Canada-Wide Science Fair.
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Science. Fiction *
I am a devotee of fiction about science. Not science fiction, though I occasionally crack a Michael Crichton novel for the dope on dinosaur DNA or nanotechnology.
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Thunderstruck (Keyes review) **
"Disappointed" was the chief word John Keyes had for this promising new volume from Seattle's Eric Larson. Two stars out of five.
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Is the Earth Doomed? *
Scientific study is announced at a time when Hollywood prepares release of the motion picture THE CORE, which depicts a similar scenario
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Mind over matter *
Paralyzed patients are taught to use their brain waves to move a white ball on a computer screen so they can communicate. ANNE McILROY reports on a German neuroscientist's pioneering work...
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The Oceans in Crisis *
Newfoundland isn't the half of it. This week's scientific bombshell reveals that all the world's oceans are emptying of fish, ALANNA MITCHELL writes. But the cod fishery is the worst-case scenario -- and to deny that, experts say, is sheer idiocy...
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