Soviet Board Games Repackaged by the Western Bourgeois
SOVIET GAME: “Fields”
(Repackaged in the West as “Monopoly”)
OBJECTIVE: To make it through the game without harming any one, while providing for your loved ones.
PLAY: Players take turns rolling dice and moving the corresponding number of squares. If you land on a Wheat Square and you are hungry than you [...]
Well, it took a while to formally announce this, but here are the winners to last season’s writing challenge. Check out the links, and see what sort of material the Terry site is always on the hunt for.
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UBC Creative:
1st: “Remember the Leaf” by Amanda Truscott
2nd: “The [...]
Old MacDonald Had a Farm, so Does UBC
The Trek to the farm may be long, but on a nice fall sunny day, when the wind is blowing and the leaves are falling, hop on your bike or go for a walk to the South Side of campus and discover this unknown world. Amidst construction sites for new condos and mysterious [...]
David Eby, of Pivot Legal Society here in Vancouver, has a rather funny (yes, sometimes even funny-ha-ha) yet penetrating way of discussing the above issues. Do yourself the favour of reading his blog.
That’s all from me!
Green Drinks on Campus
For networking and random chatting about all things green on campus, check this out (you’ll notice that the event on the poster has already occurred, but will come again on the first Tuesday of every month):
Allen’s earlier post on the issue of “waste”, reminded me of an interesting art exhibit I read about at my blog. Here we have Chris Jordan, an artist from Seattle, who frequently plays on visual perspective using digital manipulation. His work is really quite striking, as an educational tool generally, but also [...]
Canada’s Clean Air Act: The Solution or the Problem?
“Climate change is rapidly emerging as one of the most serious threats that humanity may ever face.”
~ Kenyan Environment Minister Kivutha Kibwana, President of the conference, at the second meeting of the Parties to Kyoto Protocol, November 6, 2006.
The second meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol took place from [...]
Kids and Combustion
When I was in high school, I remember friends who were jealous that my parents knew math and science – since obviously that meant I could ask them for help with my homework. What my friends didn’t know was that my parents treated the most straightforward question as an invitation to a freewheeling Socratic [...]
There’s nothing like a good cup of coffee to wake us up in the morning (or mid-day). Some of us like the bitter taste of it that makes your body cringe, others find comfort in its warmth, others combine excessive amounts of sugar to the caffeine to energize their otherwise lethargic bodies. No matter what [...]
SENSibility 2: Don’t Forget the Garbage
We hear a lot about climate change these days. It is The Big Dark Thought of our time, just as nuclear Armageddon was The Big Dark Thought during the Cold War. It is worth remembering that a lot of people lost sleep worrying about nuclear war, and understandably so. Imminent extinction events have a way [...]
This Sunday is the annual Day for Darfur, and here in Vancouver it will revolve around this documentary on the crisis. See you there?
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Day 4 Darfur Event in Vancouver, BC
Room 1700, SFU Down Vancouver
515 W. Hastings St. Vancouver
September 16, 2007
3-5pm
The film presents the [...]
INDEX: Design to Improve Life
While in Copenhagen, Denmark a little more than two weeks ago, I stumbled upon the award exposition for the INDEX: Design to Improve Life biannual competition. Coined as the world’s biggest design award, what distinguishes this particular event is that unlike most other design awards, prizes are not given according to professional [...]
So starting off with an emotional outpouring was not my original intent, but the events of September the 9th had such a positive effect on me that I find it relevant to share this day in my life.
I have certainly been accused, or honoured with the label of being an affectionate person. I often [...]
Besides Nuclear Energy, Other Quick Fixes That Didn’t Pan Out So Good
Liquor
Breast Implants
Rosie O’Donnell on The View
Pesticides
1986′s Flow-bee Haircut before the Junior Prom with Wendy Barnes
World War I
For my first entry I will go a bit out of theme (“Ça commence bien!”) and start with a book review. It’s not even recent, or by some worldly scholar, and I doubt any of your teachers will give it out as a reading assignment any time soon. But to keep in the international studies [...]
Entitled…
… And held at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC, September 13th from 8pm to 10pm. The exhibit itself runs from September 14th to October 7th.
More info can be found here.
While I may, in the not-so-distant future, address issues of grave importance with unparalleled insight (I’m tempted here to insert something indicating the depth of my sarcasm… but I’ll resist the urge), I think that the spreading of this video far and wide is vastly more entertaining.
If you’re interested in hearing about some fascinating climate change research that’s being done at UBC, and you’re keen to trek downtown, have a bit of (free) breakfast and meet professionals in the fields of climate change and sustainability, check out this event on WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12th from 7:30am to 9:00am. The email to which [...]
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Arctic Sovereignty? Well we need some place to dump the trash…
This article graced the back pages of 17 Monday’s addition of the Globe. In a brief conversation with Professor Michael Byers on the issue, he said Canada’s best chance in the debate over arctic sovereignty lay in Environmental Protection. Guess we’re flushing that down the tubes.
For the keener’s out there the Arctic [...]