Despite enormous gains by feminists in opening up scientific and medical professions to women from the late nineteenth century onward, femininity continued to be associated with intellectual ineptitude.

Auto pilot, devil's handshake and four sisters on Thumb Street.

Ludwig Wittgenstein instructs you on how to comport yourself in a stuck elevator.

Holographic animals, water parks and mind-reading helmets: young Lethbridgians speculate about what Lethbridge might be like in twenty years.

"Asked to write a character sketch, I wrote three pages on Ann’s hands. The paper was returned with every line crossed out and a question mark at the end."

Arthur Manuel recounts the time he and over 300 other activists took over the Department of Indian Affairs in 1973.

Robertson Davies' diaries reveal his zest for life and penchant for an act he refers to only as "h.t.d."

Each of the paradigm shifts that pushed human communication forward has met with stiff resistance. Even the invention of writing. From the perspective of the twenty-first century, such resistance seems incomprehensible, almost ridiculous.