Joseph Wilson

Freelance writing and editing – Science, Technology and Culture

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"We must not believe the many, who say only the free ought to be educated, but the philosophers, who say only the educated are free."  Epictetus (55 A.D. - 135 A.D.)
Featured articles:

Collaborating Across Disciplines. Open Source Business Resource. July 2009

Come on in, the water's fine ... right?, We asked Joseph Wilson to take the plunge at Toronto's beaches. His advice: Swim at the Islands, avoid Scarborough. The Globe and Mail, Aug 09, 2008

Great ideas from minds that don't think alike. The Toronto Idea Exchange culls innovation from the meeting of people with very little in common.  The Globe and Mail, Mar 29, 2008

Blinding Them With Science Creationism's curious blend of cherry-picked facts and biblical literalism comes to Canadian churches.  The Toronto Star. October 13, 2007

The Creationist Spin on our Origins What the creationists says are the scientific facts. The Toronto Star. October 13, 2007

Cyborg Sensation  An Interview with Steve Mann, the "world's first cyborg," during Digifest 2004. NOW Magazine. May 13 - 19, 2004

Joseph Wilson's Top 10 Tech Events A run down of the most influential events in technology during 2004. NOW Magazine. Dec 29 - Jan 5, 2005

Life Lessons from Dawson An analysis of the role technology played, for better or worse, in the tragic shooting at Dawson College. NOW Magazine. Oct 5 - 11, 2006

Big City, Bright Lights  The black-out of 2004 revealed to Torontonians the true extent of the light pollution in our skies. Spacing. Fall 2005.

Street Smarts A description of the practice of teaching math and science in public spaces rather than in schools. Spacing. Spring/Summer 2006.

www.nowtoronto.com: Now magazine is Toronto’s leading independent weekly, readership 395,000.

www.spacing.ca: Spacing magazine is devoted to “understanding Toronto’s urban landscape,” and was 2007 Small Magazine of the Year and 2007 Magazine Editor of the Year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors.

www.torontostar.com: Canada’s largest circulation daily newspaper.

www.treehousegroup.org: The Treehouse Group is a multi-disciplinary think-tank that tackles issues of social policy and entrepreneurship.

www.torontoist.com: An excellent blog covering all things Toronto

www.boingboing.com: The internet’s best repository of “wonderful things.”

www.collisiondetection.com: An excellent site by writer Clive Thompson cataloguing points of “collision” between the worlds of technology and culture.