Yann Martel, author of “The Life of Pi” will be at UBC next week. He’ll be giving an illustrated talk that features new illustrations from his award winning novel. This special event is organized by the Vancouver International Writers Festival.
Yann Martel
7:30 pm Tuesday December 4
Frederic Wood Theatre
Constructing Sustainable Buildings…or Laboratories…or Both
John Robinson’s seminar was awesome – I almost switched disciplines. He’s the project director behind the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), a building set for construction at the future Great Northern Way Campus in Northeast Vancouver.
CIRS’ goal is to “accelerate sustainability in the lower mainland”, and of course [...]
Poochie Comes to Vancouver
In yet another example of the prophetic powers of The Simpsons, VANOC has just unveiled its mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games: three cutesy, attitude-filled creatures who enjoy hanging out, snowboarding, and being cynically marketed towards children with high disposable incomes. When I saw Quatchi, Sumi and Miga, my first reaction – well actually [...]
I’ve just discovered several intriguing pieces on the garbage problem at thetyee.ca. The first suggests that we actually don’t need to be a society that produces garbage. Then, scroll to the bottom of that piece for a description of Earth’s Eighth Continent (yes, it is what you think, sadly), or a piece on made-to-break technology. [...]
The Art of Science – The Science of Art?
We started a new unit in my grade 12 biology class yesterday, on the mechanisms of inheritance. I wanted to impress on my students how the recognition of DNA as the code for life pervaded and altered the public consciousness. In a century that had already seen (and would later see) more history-changing events [...]
Is it just me, or do these cute and lovable forest creatures remind you of a certain Spike and Mike’s cartoon festival favourite?
Sumi: A thunderbird that enjoys alpine skiing in Whistler Quatchi: a Sasquatch (yes…) Miga: a cute, huggable, dance-crazy, flying sea bear
The mascots are the creation of Vancouver graphic [...]
O.K. now that the talk is finished, I can relax a bit now. Organizing these Terry talks is a bit akin to being a wedding planner, but without a set audience of relatives – which makes it a bit stressful sometimes. In any event, James and Alisa (100 Mile Diet) did a [...]
Duh, over! Intelligent Design is not real science. You can’t teach it in science class. Debate over.
Perhaps you remember the good ‘ol flying spaghetti monster. Maybe, you’ve never heard of Dover, Pennsylvania before. Either way, I bet if I asked you, “How did life begin on Earth?” that you’d have some kind of opinion.
[...]
What’s Your Anthrome? or “If you Can’t Save Them, Name Them After Yourself”
Humanity has greater impact on global environment than “natural” forces
Say goodbye to those old cliche, “pristine” environmental biomes embraced by our misguided ecology brethren of yesteryear, and instead embrace a brand new set of anthropogenic biomes – anthromes, if you will:
Researchers from McGill and Baltimore have provided (subscription required), [...]
Maldives 3: Return from the island paradise
Although it barely made a blip in world news, a conference of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) was held in the Maldives approximately 10 days ago. The purpose of this meeting was to bring together representatives from a host of countries with similar economic, development, and environmental concerns in order to negotiate a [...]
Viral media: A second installment
Hey folks
I posted an argument a few weeks back. It was a simple ten minute argument as to why you should take action against climate change. The producer of that Youtube film has since refined his argument to address many of the criticisms leveled at him after the initial airing.
He makes a [...]
Upcoming Seminars…
There are two interesting talks around UBC this week:
The first is tomorrow at 4pm in Earth and Ocean Sciences Main Building (directions), Room 330a:
John Robinson of UBC, Sustainable Development Research Initiative, IRES and Dept. of Geography
Green Buildings: How to change the world in about 1 million small steps.
The second is [...]
Looking for Water
Rosy McKinnon stood in the barn doorway with a battered yellow bucket. She was watching the sunset above the arid landscape of the farm, adorning the dry fields in a gold wash. She thought that the dimming glow made a lonely country lonelier, and looked to see if a truck would rattle past on [...]
As we try to “curb our consumption” on this year’s Buy Nothing Day, I thought about the 16L of concentrated hydrochloric acid I received this morning in the mail:
Those 16L of concentrated acid will make 160L of the 10% HCl my lab requires for the work we do. Why might this remind [...]
Here’s what wiki says about consumerism:
Consumerism is the equating of personal happiness with the purchasing of material possessions and consumption.
Just so you know, today (Nov 23rd) is a day-long moratorium (and called Buy Nothing Day) on consumer spending: a day to think about the impact that our consumerist tendencies have on [...]
Free Movie Nights by Cinema Politica
Check this out, a student in one of my classes just told me about, Cinema Politica at UBC. Every Wednesday they show a movie at the Norm Theatre in the SUB. It’s free for all you UBC-ers.
Cinema Politica at UBC is a weekly series showcasing movies that harness the power of film [...]
The petri plate is the work of Satan. How does God know what a petri plate is in this ancient time before the advent of scientific achievement? It is because he’s God, which is really handy for that sort of thing.
There’s a lot of buzz over some research just published on stem cells (
Just a reminder for those who don’t have tickets yet, in that we still have some available. Tickets are free and may be obtained at the Chan Centre Ticket office (Open today from 12noon to 5pm). Individuals may pick up a maximum of 2 tickets. Ticket availability is first come first served. Note that [...]
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Takesies Backsies: Facebook Flouts User Privacy…Again
This whole Web 2.0 “revolution” seems to be sticking, so far. A personalized internet experience is what the internet-using masses want. For those of you unfamiliar with what Web 2.0 is (but are likely a part of), Wiki has a nice definition, “Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and [...]