Shattering Silos

By Lambert Zuidervaart

Questions first raised by Hannah Arendt in the 1960s take on new urgency in the post-truth era, as political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain: Is truth politically impotent? Are politics ...

The Immaculate Conception of Data

By Kelly Bronson

Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Seed and chemical companies are using these data, and these agribusinesses are a form of ...

A Lantern on the Bow

Edited by Jeff Kinder, Paul Dufour
Contributions by Philip Enros, Roger Voyer, G. Bruce Doern, Meg Barker, Janet E. Halliwell, Graham Orpwood, Arthur Cordell, Hank Trim, Michael Jenkin, William Forward, and Rick Clayton

A History of the Science Council of Canada and its Contributions to the Science and Innovation Policy Debate (1966–1992) was at the forefront of a re-assessment of how knowledge can shape society, as ...

Flora's Fieldworkers

Edited by Ann Shteir
Afterword by Suzanne Zeller

When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural ...

War and Remembrance

Edited by Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort, Michel Prum, and Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger

Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

Memory, while seemingly a thing of the past, has much to reveal in the present. With its focus on memory, War and Remembrance provides new viewpoints in the field of war representation.

Bringing an interdisciplinary ...

Transformative Media

By Sandra Jeppesen

In 1999, Seattle activists adopted cutting-edge livestream technology to cover protests against the World Trade Organization. The Indymedia network that emerged established the importance of alternative, ...

Across Greenland's Ice Cap

By Alfred de Quervain
Introduction by Martin Hood, Martin Lüthi, and Andreas Vieli

As polar exploration reached its zenith, and in the same month that Captain Robert Falcon Scott perished in Antarctica, four young scientists from Zurich took ship for Greenland. Though they had little ...

The Joint Arctic Weather Stations

By Daniel Heidt & P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Series: ISSN

This is the first systematic account of the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS), a collaborative science program between Canada and the United States that created a distinctive state presence in the ...

Transforming Medical Education

Edited by Delia Gavrus & Susan Lamb

Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences and structural barriers in medical education. The essays ...

Animal as Machine

By Michel Anctil

Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are ...