I can’t stop thinking about Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I’ve always prided myself on being a bookworm, but her words made me realise that recently I haven’t been reading very much aside from what I’ve needed to read for class. What’s more, since much of what I do [...]
Floral Kaleidescope
White Agapanthus
Some years ago I began photographing exotic tropical hibiscus blooms to catalog my collection. Part of the appeal in growing these beauties is cross pollinating to create new cultivars. I wanted a catalog of my collection so that I could keep a record of which blooms were crossed and what [...]
Reduce, reuse, recycle, or chuck it in the garbage – Do we really know which is best?
The environmentalism movement is currently experiencing an injection of perhaps well-needed popularity. Celebrities who own multiple homes that could each comfortably house the inhabitants of small villages, and who regularly circumnavigate the globe in private jets that have a maximum capacity of seven, routinely remind us to do such environmentally responsible things as turn [...]
Check out this picture, and the blurb below:
A 79-year-old man with mitral valve prolapse of both leaflets and consecutive severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation underwent central double-orifice repair, the so-called “Alfieri stitch” operation. With this technique, a double-orifice mitral valve is artificially created by approximating the free edges of the leaflets at the site [...]
I wrote this on my lab’s blackboard about a month ago:
I was curious about what sort of jokes the my lab mates and users would come up with. A variety have been written and erased – some funny, but most punny. It got me thinking about science humour. From my grade [...]
The venerable Bil Keane has been writing the punchline-challenged Family Circus comic for about a million years. Usually the panels are smarmy enough to make even the most seasoned elderly parishioner cringe, but the strip has always remained completely devoid of social relevance, ensuring its continued popularity across the [...]
Paper, Plastic, or Neither? An Olympic Terry Challenge
Some Olympic math …
The 2010 Olympics are coming to Vancouver in approximately 785 days (according to the monstrous countdown clock outside the Vancouver Art Gallery), and VANOC is putting sustainability near the top of their agenda – along with organizing over 6000 athletes from more than 80 countries, 35,000 [...]
This is beautiful. The acceptance speech of Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature this weekend.
SENSibility 7: Like Fish? Only 50 years left
Do you really like fish? I really like fish. I like fish and chips at Go Fish near Granville island. I used to devour sushi (before a rare tropical bug caught in Indonesia basically destroyed my insides). I like salmon candy and the Kaisen seafood platter at En Restaurant on tenth avenue. I like Chilean [...]
As a UBC’er who lives in Richmond, I drive past the Garden City lands every time I‘m avoiding traffic on No. 3 Road. This 55 Hectare (136 Acre) field sits between the bustling development in Richmond’s city centre and the farming fields to the southeast. It’s a very large undeveloped green space in a city [...]
I remember hearing this before – but apparently this is the first major American study of its kind:
“The Rising Cost of Low-Energy-Density Foods” (Monsivais and Drewnoski, 2007; J. Americ. Diet. Assoc. 107: 2071-2076; if your university has a subscription, you can access the full article here, and here’s the press [...]
A Local Food Feast
For the first time in my three years living in Vancouver, I was able to return for (American) Thanksgiving to my hometown of Pullman, in southeastern Washington. Every year, my family does a big Thanksgiving dinner at our house or at the affectionately named “Cooley Gulch Farms”. Jim and Zoe Cooley, who are like [...]
Just caught this at Boingboing: Here you have history professor, Dr. Alan Charles Kors, attempting to encapsulate the entirety of human history in a 60 second lecture. The transcript goes:
* First, tribes: tough life.
* The defaults beyond the intimate tribe were violence, aversion to difference, and slavery. Superstition: everywhere.
[...]
Remember Cyclone Sidr? Many have forgotten it – another Cyclone kills another few hundred people. Or is it a few thousand? Thousands of people are without food, clean water, clothes, or blankets – yet coverage on the aftermath of Sidr is virtually absent from [...]
Well, we’re pretty much full on into the exam period, and seeing students shuffle from one place to another (be it an exam or a library, etc) brings back some vague memories of my own undergrad (a long time ago, I actually lived at Totem Park). Anyway, I was a crammer, although not necessarily a [...]
Yann Martel: Imaginative Atrophy and Lonely Book Clubs
(Reprinted from Shifting Baselines)
Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi, spoke on campus last night and I was smart enough to attend. I cannot possibly impart all of his wisdom here so I’ll give you what I found to be the most interesting snippets. My own wisdom: if you haven’t read [...]
“Environmental Impacts of Divorce” (pdf here) reads the title of an accepted manuscript soon to be published the highly accoladed journal PNAS (press release)
You meet the love of your life, you marry them – you move into one house. That’s one house to heat, and one house to supply potable [...]
This talk is really quite remarkable. Larry hails from Stanford Law, and is an eminent authority on copyright, particularly as it pertains to this crazy world of Web2.0
Ketchup, Global Warming, and Why I Love Heists.
I am ketchup. I was first produced en masse by the Heinz Company in 1875. They wanted to make bland American food taste more delicious. I was perfect for the job. I was poured onto meat, potatoes, bread… and that’s it. I did not invade the meals on which I had no personal expertise. [...]
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Canada’s shameful performance in Bali
As many of you may know, a rather important conference is taking place this week in Bali, Indonesia. This is a United Nations Climate Change conference, and represents the gathering of representatives from over 180 countries, with hundreds of observers from inter- and non-governmental organizations. This is a crucial opportunity to discuss the time period [...]