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Denial of Facts Is No Way to Understand Science

James Hoggan | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Climate Science, Fraser Institute, Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, Koch Industries, Climate Change, Climategate, Confirmation Bias, Motivated Reasoning, Green News
James Hoggan

There was a time when I couldn't understand what motivated writers like Margaret Wente to stand so firmly against such clear and solid science. The psychology of "confirmation bias" has provided the answer for me.

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Lucia Graves

Global Leaders Call On Canada To Fight Climate Change In New Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, Video, Africa, Kyoto Protocol, Globe and Mail, Climate Change, Desmond Tutu, Durban Conference, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Canada, Green News

WASHINGTON -- African leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jay Naidoo of former President Nelson Mandela's cabinet, and Zwelinzima Vavi, general...

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A Deadly Dance: A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: A Dance With Dragons, Globe and Mail, Fantasy Fiction, Game of Thrones, Song of Ice and Fire, Books, Fantasy, George R. R. Martin, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

Was it worth the wait? That is likely the most burning question facing readers of George R. R. Martin's mammoth Song of Ice and Fire series regarding its fifth and latest installment, A Dance with Dragons.

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Behind The Globe And Mail's Award-Winning Stories

Globe and Mail | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: Globe and Mail, Newspapers, National Newspaper Awards, Canada National Newspaper Awards, Media News

Globe and Mail journalists won five National Newspaper Awards for 2010. The Globe was also on the short list of finalists for six other awards. Here a...

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A Well-Written Story Poorly Told

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mildred Pierce, Jeffery Deaver, Harlan Coben, Scott Brick, Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Tonight I Said Goodbye, Lincoln Rhyme, Michael Koryta, Asimov, Globe and Mail, Myron Bolitar, Audiobook, Chicago Tribune, St. Martin's Press, Zachary Scott, Books News
Tom Alderman

The Bolitar audiobooks are Twitter-talking, cheeky-sleuth mysteries at their best and require an often light, irreverent touch in narration.

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Electronics Changes Books, Bookstores and Publishing for Christmas 2009

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Taylor Gatto, Winter Olympics, Sherry Turkle, Made to Break, Dumbest Generation, Dumbing US Down, Life on the Screen, Giles Slade, Stephen Colbert, Sarah Palin, Ereaders, Ken Bruen, Kindle Reader, Amazon.com, Sony, Apple, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sales, Mark Bauerlein, Oprah, Itablet, Globe and Mail, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, London Boulevard, Chicago Tribune, Books News
Giles Slade

On the day before Christmas, I realized I didn't have a present for my friend, Tom Harapnuik, who'd given me a copy of Mark Bauerlein's The Dumbest Ge...

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A Magical Night of Music and Another Triumph for Toronto: The Grand Opening of The Royal Conservatory of Music's Koerner Hall

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anton Kuerti, Classical Music Reviews, Toronto Mendelsson Choir, Beethoven?S Fifth, Music Education, Peter Simon, Acoustics, Michael Koerner, Music, The Royal Conservatory of Music, Culture, R. Murray Schafer, Classical Music, Beethoven, Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Young-Classical-Musicians, Radio, Globe and Mail, Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Glenn Gould, Koerner Hall, Emerging-Classical-Musicians, Arts Education, Grammy-Nominees, Telus, Entertainment News
Marissa Bronfman

Friday night's grand opening of The Royal Conservatory of Music's Koerner Hall proved that Toronto has truly become one of the world's top cities for the performing arts.

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Is it Time to Invent a New Masculinity?

Sean McManus | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jesse Eisenberg, Hugh Dancy, John Krasinski, Japanese Herbivores, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Cera, Bonobos, Gawker, Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, Masculinity, The Year of Awkward Young Men, Femininity, Working-Class Masculinity, Gender Roles, Healthy Living News
Sean McManus

The new economy is a tough place for these old-fashioned guys. That's why it's important that we work together to create a new kind of masculinity, not defined by "infants in Morissey onesies."

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Canada's Globe And Mail Replaces Editor

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Stackhouse, Globe and Mail, Newspapers, Canada, Ed Greenspon, Media News

TORONTO — The publisher of Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper says editor in chief Ed Greenspon is stepping down. The newspaper's publisher and ...

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How to Save Lit Mags

Caleb Das | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globe and Mail, Publishing, Publishing Industry, Creative Writing, Lit Mags, Literary Magazines, Media News
Caleb Das

Literary sites shouldn't behave as if they are some kind of living archive.

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I Wish Obama Would Kiss Me

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Year of the Ox, Michelle Obama, Harper's, Lewis Lapham, President Obama, Eat Pray Love, Julia Moulden, Elizabeth Gilbert, Michael Valpy, Globe and Mail, New Radicals, The Giving Life, Featured Contributor, Healthy Living News
Julia Moulden

Blame it on the Year of the Ox - or the year of hugs and kisses, "ox", as I'm calling it. What got me started was seeing how so many commentators are...

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