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Multiple Division

As if high school isn’t hard enough

Amanda Perry

Grief Observed

A portrait of loss

Ruth Panofsky

A Developing Situation

Scenes of the first five waves

Mary Hunter
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Kathryn O'Hara

Kathryn O’Hara is the president of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association and a journalism professor at Carleton University.

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Passionate Darwinism

A Quebec science writer travels back 3.5 billion years from his porch April 2011
The year 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species. That year also saw the publication of more than 100 titles in English alone commemorating the man and his work. Evolution: The View from the Cottage was not among the…

Don’t Blink

A environmentalist says conscription is the right prescription for survival July–August 2005
The world population is growing; developing nations are entering the global marketplace; China wants cars and beef. We are consuming our natural resources at record speed, and half of us are now for the first time ever living in cities. How will we all get enough good air, water, food and shelter to survive? Is war the…