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Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is a city dominated by water.

The problem of consciousness may just be a semantic one. The brain absorbs a sea of sensory input, the tiniest fraction of which reaches the shore of our awareness.

The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and more recently, management science an

David Miller elegantly and provocatively reformulates critical rationalism-the revolutionary approach to epistemology advocated by Karl Popper-by answering its most important critics.

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads.

Waterpower is the largest source of renewable energy in the world today, and microhydro is a mature, proven technology that can provide clean, inexpensive, renewable energy with little or no impact

To ensure food security and restore the health of the planet, we need to move beyond industrial agriculture and return to the practice of small-scale, local farming.

Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas.

Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world. Most people just want sewage to go away, preferably without having to see, smell, or worse yet, touch it.

Small-scale home biodiesel production holds a singular attraction for the do-it-yourself enthusiast.

Vous êtes convaincu qu’on ne bronze pas derrière une vitre, que le chocolat est un antidépresseur, que le palmier est un arbre, que la reine du jeu d’échecs est une femme et que manger des carottes

À travers l’histoire, notre planète a connu cinq grandes extinctions de masse.

Sous la direction de Georges-Henri Arenstein, André Benoit et Lucie Pétrin évoquent la relation entre l’humain et le cheval.

The climate changes experts predict a drying of 20 to 30 % of the water available in the Great Lakes area in the next century, a forecast already in progress.

Aujourd’hui, les colonies d’abeilles disparaissent à un rythme effarant et on se demande si elles vont survivre. Les abeilles sont ici depuis 20 millions d’années, bien longtemps avant nous.