SciencePhoto essay: From Doves above, images of our stunning Earth belowPlanet Labs launched 28 Dove satellites from the ISS and scanned the planet. Their mission? Scan the Earth every day to change it for the better.
OttawaEarl Cowan, the fly in the Conservatives’ rally ointmentThe Tories had refined their recipe for a smooth rally down to a science. But maybe they’ll now need to vet even their most ardent defenders.
WorldBeware: Killer electric fansIs falling asleep next to an electric fan a potentially fatal mistake? In South Korea at least, it is widely thought to be.
CanadaTrudeaumania with a mean streakAt a packed rally of red clad fans, the Liberal leader and Kathleen Wynne teed off on Harper
LifeSah-ry, eh? We’re in the midst of the Canadian Vowel ShiftThe old vowels are ’oot’: Canadians are changing how we speak, though none of us are noticing. Linguists might know why.
PhotoPhoto essay: Brazil’s threatened tribe, damned by a damCristina Mittermeier has spent years documenting the Kayapo tribe in Brazil—and its fight to save a culture and way of life
MoviesIn Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer prods an open wound againThe sequel to the acclaimed documentary ’The Act of Killing’ shocks a nation into talking about its genocidal past
ScienceRemembering Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the (dwarf) planet PlutoHe lived in awe at the grandness of the universe, so it’s fitting perhaps that his ashes are now 0.0005 light years away
CanadaThe centre of controversy: Where is Canada’s middle?It should be an easy question: What’s Canada’s geographic centre? But groups in Manitoba and Nunavut say they’re right.