Hi Dave, thank you for your comment, glad you enjoyed the blog. There're promos on the front page slider but tend to be further down. You can find them if you click the right arrow button. There's currently three different blogs with book lists, depending on your interest: Stop anti-Asian Racism, A Guide to Open Data, and World Autism Awareness Day.

Hi Joe, thank you for your comment. I had a similar reaction when I saw that the sole copy of the Concept of Mind was tucked away in the TRL stacks collection. The library relies increasingly on circulating metrics to determine the currency of its collections, which has the effect of marginalizing important but oft-forgotten books like this one. I think a balance is needed, where books of cultural importance are afforded collection space regardless of their circulation metrics. Your comment is refreshing because it indicates that there's public demand for such books. Also, sometimes print availability affects how well a book is represented. It looks like the last popular paperback edition of Concept of Mind was published in 2000 and a rarer Rutledge edition in 2009. Between the selection pressures that librarians often face, this one might have been overlooked. The Meditations seems to be available for circulation as well as ebook. I concur with your sentiment on the Dialectic of Enlightenment as well. On the encouragement of your remarks, I'm going to contact the collections development department to see if they'd consider purchasing circulating copies of the Concept of Mind and the Dialectic of Enlightenment, and see if the reference copy of the former can be shifted to open stacks for easier access. From previous experience, the library is open-minded about such requests and takes the input of the public seriously.

My apologies, I meant to say either knockout or insert genes. Follow this link for an overview and publications on the subject: https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/internal-content/about-human-germline-gene-editing

Hi David, it works the same as any other cells, where they target specific sequences of DNA and either delete or knockout genes. CRISPR/cas is one such method, but more precise. Germline editing is (mostly) illegal. If you're interested in the subject I'd highly recommend giving a look at one of the books mentioned above.

Fantastic blog. Really fascinating to learn about Ontario's role in the development of nuclear energy. I wonder how nuclear will factor in the future of renewable energy (although it's traditionally classed as non-renewable due to finite uranium resources)

What a lovely recollection of this episode in the Osborne's collection history. As a Harry Potter fan, this was really cool to learn about, esp. the detail about Maurice Sendak designing the collection logo!

Hi DM, thank you for your comment! I did provide links to some accessible resources in the last paragraph, as we all as one of the pictured books, but I'll be sure to include more in the future! Glad you liked the article otherwise, - Angjelin.