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.
The Greatest Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
Robert Langlands’s work may have no practical applications—and he doesn’t mind at all
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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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