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- The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Bully for Brontosaurus
Reflections in Natural History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of dicursive essays on natural history.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- 1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Resource Type: Website
The PLOS mission is to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Everything that we publish is open-access – freely available online for anyone to use. Sharing research encourages progress, from protecting the biodiversity of our planet to finding more effective treatments for diseases such as cancer.
- Race and IQ
Expanded Edition
Resource Type: Book
This editions contains 5 new essays that address the claims made in The Bell Curve and the social agenda these claims are used to promote.
- Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
A small number of researchers, mostly well outside of the scientific mainstream, have seized upon some of the new findings and methods in human genetics, and are part of a social-media cottage-industry that disseminates and amplifies low-quality or distorted science, sometimes in the form of scientific papers, sometimes as internet memes – under the guise of euphemisms such as 'race realism' or ‘human biodiversity'. Their arguments, which focus on racial groupings and often on the alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them, have the semblance of science, with technical-seeming tables, graphs, and charts.
- Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Unravelling the DNA Myth
The spurious foundation of genetic engineering
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A survey of the implications of the collapse of molecular biology's "central dogma", that an organisms genome fully accounts for its characteristic assemblage of inherited traits. The author adresses how the biotechnology industry has been able to convince the world that genetic modifications are safe.
- Why the zoo shot its tigers
Resource Type: Article
A discussion of the practice of - and motivation behind - culling and conservation in the one of the worlds foremost science and conservation zoological facilities, the London Zoo.
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