An innovative Atlantic Canadian company aims to put the region on the solar energy map.
by Tom Mason
Except for the Russian accent, Alexandre Pavlovski sounds a lot like the oil executives who first descended on Nova Scotia’s offshore scene 30 years ago. In fact, he can barely hide his enthusiasm as he discusses his adopted province’s [...]
by Tom Mason
Dr. Rudiger von Ritschl scrolls through a series of computer screen images. As the slices of brain tissue peel away like the layers of an onion, an ominous, tentacled mass begins to emerge from the shadows. It’s a huge brain tumour, one that was an unrecognizable speck of discolouration on conventional x-rays, rendered [...]
by Tom Mason
THE WINDSWEPT TOWN OF Stromness on Scotland’s Orkney Islands was given its name by the Vikings who first settled here 1,000 years ago. It means “strong tide point,” a reference to the powerful tides that rip by the headland that lies just south of the town. Here in this out-of-the-way place the European [...]
by Tom Mason
YOUR MOTHER IS RELATED TO a venereal disease. It isn’t just an edgy insult. It’s the truth.
Not that there’s much of a family resemblance, but the tiny organisms swimming around in Dr. Andrew Roger’s microscope known as Trichomonas vaginalis are our distant relatives nevertheless. Very distant. These tiny one-celled organisms and the creatures [...]
