Time for a rational approach to environmental issues
MICHAEL TAUBE: Fortunately, some writers and thinkers still believe in healthy debate and intellectual discourse on the environment. One of them is Peter Foster ($29)
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A user’s guide to coping in an age of anxiety
SCIENCE: Health law and policy professor Timothy Caulfield takes readers through an average day to show how evidence can allay our fears and inform our decisions (FREE)
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Cary Grant was a complicated, brilliant creation
PAT MURPHY: Grant may have lacked formal education and been a troubled soul, but he was nobody’s fool when it came to practising his trade and taking care of business [Use Coupon Code CC25 at checkout and SAVE 25%!]
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A revisionist history of who won the U.S. Civil War
MICHAEL TAUBE: New book maintains that the North may have won the war, but the South won the battle of ideas Use Coupon Code 11608 at checkout and save $5!
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What Jeopardy! teaches us about learning styles
MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA: It’s important for schools to have a knowledge-rich curriculum that sequentially builds on knowledge year by year. Alex Trebek taught us that
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Christmas pantomime a charming holiday tradition
PAT MURPHY: There’s no requirement to stick to the details of the original story. The entertainment imperative trumps ‘authenticity’ every time
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Charley Pride knocked down country music’s racial barriers
MICHAEL TAUBE: Audiences took a while to warm up to a black country musician. He wasn’t promoted in this fashion and photos didn’t accompany his early singles
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A guide to looking beyond the COVID-19 crisis
GERRY CHIDIAC: A small shift in mindset can get us to realize that what we’re going through really will one day simply be a memory
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Three political dramas worth watching
PAT MURPHY: Think of them as a form of therapy, a way of easing back to everyday life while still experiencing the atmospherics of the political arena
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What did Germans really think of Hitler?
PAT MURPHY: The Nazi approach was a blend of carrots and sticks, resting on three pillars: popularity, tradition and coercion
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Margaret Thatcher and the end of apartheid
PAT MURPHY: The Thatcher-Nelson Mandela relationship is a reflection of how very different people can evolve a respectful, albeit wary, understanding
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A KGB guide to subverting the press to your agenda
LEE HARDING: The methods of a former KGB operative remain applicable in the modern era, leading to disinformation and outright lies
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