• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, May 7, 2014

Random iPad App of the week: This is very cool. The Massey Lectures Series has been transformed into a rich iPad app that includes close to 200 hours of text, audio lectures, interviews and images. Users can learn more about selected Massey authors, ask questions, share ideas or respond to another reader's in-line comments. Notable Massey Lecturers include Northrop Frye, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Stephen Lewis, Thomas King, Margaret Somerville, and Wade Davis. The Massey Lectures iPad app is available for free, with the option to purchase the book and lectures individually or in curated bundles of similarly themed topics. At launch, six books will be available: "Blood: The Stuff of Life" by Lawrence Hill; "The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos" by Neil Turok; "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" by Margaret Atwood; "The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit" by Margaret Somerville; "Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa" by Stephen Lewis; and "The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative" by Thomas King. Download the app here, created by Critical Mass.