The False Promise of Green Housing
One designer is challenging the conventional wisdom about environmentally friendly construction
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Viviane Fairbank (@vivianefairbank) is a writer based in Montreal and the associate editor at The Walrus.
How One Canadian’s Math Could Help Us Understand the Universe
The profound effects of Robert Langlands’s grand unifying theory
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Why I Don’t Read Rebecca Solnit
It’s time to stop buying into the author’s brand of pop feminism
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The Pleasures, and Dangers, of a Fully Personalized World
A millionaire mathematician spent fifteen years building his perfect home. After his untimely death, what can the house tell us about the man?
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How Canadian Scientists Are Leading the Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life
If there are aliens on the newly discovered exoplanets, we may be the first to find evidence of them
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Can We Leave Now?
The class struggle behind the vote to close Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland
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Trump, Clinton, and the Absence of Meaning
Are politicians bullshit artists—or scientists?
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Sue You to the Moon and Back
Vexatious litigants bring frivolous, repetitive, and outlandish claims before the courts. Here are some of Canada’s most notorious
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