Here’s a beautiful essay, as food for thought. Food that seems to be of a nutritious nature.
The folks over at BuildingGreen, working with the DOE and Google, have put together a cool layer for GoogleEarth:
This is interesting – President Bush signed the first law making the release of National Institute of Health research publicly available. This also marks the first time such a law has been passed for any publicly funded scientific research:
The provision directs the NIH to change its existing Public Access Policy, implemented as a [...]
This is quite an evocative video. It contains a lot of powerful historical footage in a few short minutes, even somehow managing to make the Y2K celebrations seem like a distant, nostalgic memory.
(I think I might be behind the times for posting this now. But Terry readers don’t ever watch MuchMusic anyway, [...]
This is freaking cool. (Tip: Jordan)
Scrabble for cheaters: A game of verbal smarts and fraudulence
The premise is simple: canvas your friends for money – money to pay off the judges to look the other way while you defile the sanctity of Scrabble. The best part is: it’s [...]
A good one too, by Spike Milligan.
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CHRISTMAS 1970.
A little girl called Sile Javotte
Said ‘Look at the lovely presents I’ve got’
While a little girl in Biafra said
‘Oh what a lovely slice of bread’.
Yea…those are bears sledding down the snowy hill on inner tubes.
Tomorrow marks 10 days – that is, 10 days until your sustainable masterpiece mansions of gingerbread, icing, sprinkles, and perhaps a little leftover Halloween candy are due. In order to spur your appetite for delicious baked goods, and moisten your thirst [...]
Originally published here.
I’ve had my doubts with scientific journalism before (see here). My beef was, in short, how can a journalist who has not been well educated in a particular field effectively cover that field’s scientific discoveries? How can they understand the small nuances and assumptions, those that professionals aren’t always [...]
I found this story this morning, an article published on Friday by the Canadian Free Press by global warming skeptics Tom Harris and John McLean (article). The authors stated:
“In total, only 62 scientists reviewed the chapter in which this statement appears, the critical chapter 9, “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change”. Of the comments [...]
Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi, an Iraqi journalist and member of the Alive in Baghdad blog, was killed in his home yesterday (tip: NowPublic). He would have turned 24 this week.
Ali lived in Habibya, it’s considered as a part of the Sadr city. On Friday the 14th at 11:30pm Baghdad time, Iraqi [...]
Dave Ng has a call for “What kind of scientist is Santa?” which got me thinking about, “What super powers might Santa have?” which ultimately led me to think about the general classification of super powers:
The Scientific Academy has received a disproportionally large amount of exposure when it comes to superhero-dom. I found [...]
While responding to Sarah Burch’s post about Canada in Bali, I was reminded of some of the doubts that have been cast on climate science—some evident quackery, and others… possibly not.I have spent hours lately trying to wrap my mind around what is a great deal of back-and-forth between the “consensus” position on climate [...]
Just got this email about the state of negotiations in Bali and how Canada in particular is weighing in:
International officials and experts have named Canada the worst country in the world on climate change as Canada blocks UN efforts in Bali.
There’s still a few hours left to save our country, and [...]
Here is a great opportunity to share your experience as a university student in British Columbia and how you would like to see that experience change.
The Ministry of Advanced Education wants to know what it’s like to be a post-secondary student in BC.
On January 15-16, 2008, the Ministry will host a System Leadership [...]
Right now, the 40th annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union is taking place in San Francisco. The Fall meeting consists of around 15,000 researchers from around the world descending upon the bay area to nerd it up on issues covering nearly every facet of earth and ocean [...]
O.K. So the deal is that it’s the holidays – and soon the whole merriment parade will be kicking into high gear. This includes a number of things that I bet many households end up going through. Things such as:
1. the strategic maneuvering of the mistletoe locale.
2. watching [...]
Workers of the World Relax: The Simple Economics of Less Industrial Work
Conrad Schmidt, 2006
Book Review
We are killing ourselves to make useless crap. Crap, in its various forms–by which I primarily mean mass-produced consumer goods–takes up resources and energy and redirects it all, essentially, to a pile in some obscure corner of your house. There it collects dust and periodic interest for about [...]
Its that election time of year once again! Nominations close on January 11th 2008. More information can be found here .
Registration Open for the 2008 UBC SLC
Are you an established student leader on campus? Are you a budding individual inspired to make changes in your community? Are you a curious mind wondering about various involvement opportunities on campus?
If so, consider this year’s Student Leadership Conference, which will take place on January 12, 2008. The annual event will feature Stephen [...]
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Clearly, it’s holiday season, so let’s switch gears a little. Share your musical recommedations.
Well judging by the slowing down of comments, it would appear that the holiday internet slowdown is upon us. Which also means that it’s time to put out a post that is a little on the light side.
For me, one of the things I’m curious about is musical preferences – especially since I [...]