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Carbon—The Unauthorized Biography Review: The Element that Got Snookered

by Marc Glassman
February 18, 2022
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Succession star Sarah Snook voices Carbon the element in Niobe Thompson and Daniella Ortega's playful eco doc Carbon—The Unauthorized Biography.

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Picture a Scientist Review: A Woman’s Work

by Madeline Lines
January 19, 2021August 21, 2021
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Picture a Scientist illustrates how the fight for gender equality in the scientific community is far from over although it has come a long way.

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When Worlds Collide: Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer on Fireball

by Jason Gorber
November 11, 2020August 12, 2021
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"You don’t need an exotic and a wild landscape like a sinkhole in the Yucatán Peninsula to find the wonders and recesses of the human soul." - Werner Herzog

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TIFF 2020: Fireball Review

by Pat Mullen
September 16, 2020August 9, 2021
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Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer look to the stars in Fireball, the duo's latest collaboration after Into the Inferno and Encounters at the End of the World.

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Will “clean meat” change how we consume animals?

by Marc Glassman
May 1, 2020December 11, 2021
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Meat the Future (Canada, 90 min.) Dir. Liz Marshall Over the past couple of years, it’s become impossible not to know about plant-based foods that mimic meat. The appropriately named Impossible Foods

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‘Chasing Einstein’: Into the Unknown

by Pat Mullen
January 8, 2020August 27, 2021
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Chasing Einstein (USA, 80 min.) Dir. Steve Brown, Timothy Wheeler Albert Einstein’s equation of E = MC2 might be the most famous scientific theory of our time, but does it add up? Chasing

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‘Human Nature’ Will Get Audiences Talking

by Pat Mullen
October 3, 2019August 27, 2021
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Human Nature (USA, 94 min.) Dir. Adam Bolt Adam Bolt puts a bun in the science oven and births something mind-boggling in Human Nature. This densely informative but surprisingly accessible documentary provides an

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Different Brainwaves: ‘The Divided Brain’

by Pat Mullen
April 5, 2019August 18, 2021
Reviews

The Divided Brain (Canada, 78 min.) Dir. Manfred Becker The world, like the brain, is split between the left and the right. Left-wingers favour democracy and progress, while the folks on the

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Review: ‘Inventing Tomorrow’

by Tara Hakim
January 18, 2019August 28, 2021
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Inventing Tomorrow (USA, 87 min.) Dir. Laura Nix Imagine a city carved by bubble bath lakes with white, foamy and luscious bubbles scattering the streets. That is what we see in the

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Fighting with Our Whole Hearts

by Chanda Chevannes
November 20, 2017August 29, 2021
Essays

"I’m inspired by Sandra Steingraber every day. What she says is that she’s a biologist and she’s a mother. And so, the way that she fought was with her whole heart. And

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