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Globe & Mail

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Out Out, Damn Blind Spot

Originally in: Globe and Mail

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time, by Michael Brooks.

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The Roswell incident notwithstanding, cold fusion was the 20th century’s original “I want to believe” moment.

In a few short weeks in May, 1989, the …

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A Valentine to Science, a Primer for Adults

Originally in: Globe and Mail

THE CANON: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. By Natalie Angier.

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‘Science is huge,” explains Natalie Angier, “a great ocean of human experience; it’s the product and point of having the most deeply corrugated brain of …

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Al Neil, King of the Underground

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Al Neil may not be the king of the underground. For many years, it would seem, he was the artistic underground of Vancouver.
In a …

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Diana Thater

Lighting Vancouver's Latest Landmark

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A curious addition recently arrived to the after-dark vista of the Vancouver waterfront: light. Every evening a sliver-thin shaft of light, calibrated to activate at …

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Moshe Safdie

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Moshe Safdie, the internationally renowned and prolific architect, is about to do something he says too many of his cohorts fail to do: A postmortem.…

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