A piece of geeky brilliance, from McSweeneys, one of my favourite websites:
Illnesses Whose Victims May Not Be Safely Eaten
1. Rabies
2. Chickenpox
3. Leukemia
4. Tuberculosis
5. The common cold
6. Hodgkin’s disease
7. Hepatitis*
8. Leprosy
9. Crohn’s disease**
10. Mono (aka [...]
Critical thinking should be taught in elementary schools.
Debating the Patenting of Life
For all those who already have an opinion on the issue and need to share it with other or for someone who would just like to learn more about each position, this event should be quite exciting. It’s also an opportunity to support the UBC debate theme, which is afterall considered a varsity sport. Get [...]
Dear Michelle,
Thanks very much for your recent email, your communication efforts during your campaign have been notable- well done! (please see below for her email)
I believe I share your view that public service is a meaningful quest and that passionate people are a good fit for politics. Despite our shared ground though, your [...]
Interested in Hydrogen?
So I’m certainly not qualified to make any judgments on scientific merit or viability, but this looks pretty cool to me.
A colleague in one of my classes mentioned this in a discussion on international energy issues today. He came across an interview with Jerry Wooddall on the U.S. National Public Radio (Kinda like CBC, [...]
This is the Bell Curve all over again, except that this time, heavy weight scientist of note, Dr. James Watson (he of the Watson and Crick double helix fame) is stepping into the furor. In essense, he’s been making some highly contentious comments on genetics, race and intelligence. The Independent has a good piece [...]
Sudan: Attack on North Darfur imminent
This is scary. Last week, Amnesty International reported that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are amassing in six or more towns in North Darfur, Sudan. This is the same region where so much indiscriminate government-led killing has taken place over the past 4-5 years.
In light of this terrifying news, Amnesty called again for [...]
For magnificence, for variety of form and color, for profusion of brilliant life — bird, insect, reptile, beast — for vast scale — Uganda is truly the pearl of Africa.
– Winston Churchill, 1907
However, the pearl of Africa may not be so shiny anymore. First, there was Idi Amin who is estimated [...]
This seems to be all over the net today. Pretty thought provoking…
The video is actually kind of prevalent in a number of ways. For instance, the mention of Facebook is pretty interesting to me. At the beginning of the summer, when we were interviewing for our Terry project hires, we were fortunate enough [...]
Don’t tempt me… But, man, talk about creativity. Truth is, I can’t really say more than what the title gives away. The good stuff starts about 3 and a half minutes in.
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(PAUL BERG) PROTEIN SYNTHESIS: AN EPIC ON THE CELLULAR LEVEL – 1971
On an open field at Stanford [...]
Newsflash. The money raised during Shine Day (Sept 8th) for the UBC 2007 Shinerama Campaign has finally been counted! That means buckets upon buckets of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters (and some bills) have finally been painstakingly counted, rolled and lugged away. The final totals for Shinerama’s week of activities are still being determined, but [...]
UBC scientist shares in Nobel glow
Just saw this in the Vancouver Sun today, about John Robinson, who has in the past been the lead author of a number of IPCC working groups. He’s also an excellent speaker, so if and when we hear of him giving a talk at UBC, we’ll let you know.
(Vancouver Sun, Oct 13th, 2007 [...]
Gore and the IPCC win the Nobel Peace Prize
IPCC figures rock!
It appears that Dr. Sens is also a soothsayer of sorts having posted about Gore yesterday. And if you don’t know what I mean, I am, of course, referring to Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Fitting, since a lot of the discussion taking place around the [...]
Cuddlier than whom? Our beloved Panda. I think not. Check out the AMS archives in this video.
There’s nothing like waking up to the news. In the midst of hearing about the US going ahead with its anti-missile shield and Burma’s ongoing crisis, I learnt that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize along with the IPCC
for their effort to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made [...]
Maize: the Plant that Colonized the World
Here’s a seminar next week at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. It’s a suggested $5 donation but that includes the price of admission (and students with ID may get in free anyway – not sure on what the logistics of that is though, so if you know, please leave a comment).
Dr. Michael Blake, [...]
O.K. I’m going to make Friday my day to see what’s going on around UBC and/or Vancouver that looks like it would be worth checking out. Here’s one on genetics and the woolly mammoth, which has the added bonus of hanging out at the Vancouver Club (a nice place by all accounts.)
Lions, sabertooth tigers, [...]
SENSibility 4: Gore’s Film has Nine Errors (But Students can Still Watch It)
A British High Court judge has ruled that Al Gore’s climate film, An Inconvenient Truth, contains nine “scientific errors.” According to Justice Burton, the nine “errors” were statements made in the film that are not supported by mainstream scientific consensus. Among the errors are the assertions about the extent of sea-level rise, the disappearance of [...]
The UBC Students’ Global Health Initiative would like to invite all UBC students to an information & networking evening: From Passion To Skill: Experiences in Uganda, India & Honduras. There will be an address by Dr. Gavin Stuart, Dean of the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and presentations from our three global health projects. After the [...]
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Zeitgeist: Food for lots of thought
As part of the Facebook frenzy as of late, I was directly towards a group supporting a documentary called “Zeitgeist.” I must admit that I simultaneously approach conspiracy theories with considerable scorn, while becoming enraged when ANY counter-culture analysis or investigation is painted with the crazy brush. This one definitely deserves a watch.
It [...]