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Tech equalizer
Usually, tech conferences are stuffed with men, but at the Mobile Tech For Social Change sessions during Net Change Week at the MaRS recently, nine... -
Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks
GROWING UP JUNG: COMING OF AGE AS THE SON OF TWO SHRINKS by Micah Toub (Doubleday Canada), 261 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNNNAlthough it sounds... -
The Steps Across The Water
THE STEPS ACROSS THE WATER by Adam Gopnik (Doubleday), 304 pages, $21.95 cloth. Rating: NNNote to doubleday: when you send out review copies of a... -
Zero History
ZERO HISTORY by William Gibson (Putnam), 416 pages, $31 cloth. Rating: NNNIn his 10th book, William Gibson returns to the amoral financial genius Hubertus Bigend,... -
Frenetic engineering
Detroit - I'm watching a robot chase a kid around a parking lot. It's an 8-foot-tall skull with flaming eyes and snapping jaws of iron.... -
Rebel mobility
While this use is not exactly endorsed by Steve Jobs, your mobile phone might be your most powerful tool in the demonstration action outside the... -
Football TVs final frontier
Tim Dekime must be stressed. As the point person for NBC's television coverage of this weekend's Super Bowl, DeKime needs to make sure his team... -
Free shareable iTunes in sight
By most accounts, the 2009 Macworld in San Francisco, Apple's last annual marketing fest, was a snooze. The yearly convention devoted to the deification of... -
Browse and get smarter
The most important news is often buried at the back of the newspaper. Last month, when researchers released the results of a massive three-year study... -
Brain food
MY STROKE OF INSIGHT by Jill Bolte Taylor (Viking), 184 pages, $27.50 cloth. Rating: NNNJill Bolte Taylor's story is like no other. She was a... -
Titters for Tipler
THE PHYSICS OF CHRISTIANITY by Frank J. Tipler (Doubleday), 286 pages, $18.95 paper. Rating: NOnce a respected physicist, Frank Tipler, it appears, has gone off... -
Christians convert to gaming
Gaming has found god. The Christian right has figured out that, instead of rallying against video games as morally deficient purveyors of violence and apathy,... -
Soul Of The World: Unlocking The Secrets Of Time
SOUL OF THE WORLD: UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF TIME by Christopher Dewdney (HarperCollins), 243 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNNNIn his fourth non-fiction book, poet and... -
E-books get some traction
IFOA author Andrew Westoll slams resistant publishers [rssbreak] I've been slamming the e-book concept for years. I've argued that readers in love with the crinkle... -
Is Wikileaks sell-off a sellout?
Hugo Chavez must be pissed off. Last month, an archive containing three years of e-mails between the president of Venezuela and one of his top...
