Gaming, especially online gaming, is part of modern culture. Whether you’re playing scrabulous on facebook, or tennis on that new Wii you got for Christmas, you should take a minute and check out this game called Climate Challenge from the BBC.
In this game, you get to be the president of the European [...]
Let ‘em loose!
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I’m a third generation eastern European. By that token, my grandparents speak Ukrainian, my Dad went to Ukrainian Sunday School as a kid, and I learned only the really important words to a 10 year old (derogatory slang, swear words, food, and money). Both [...]
Nature has run a free supplement in this week’s issue, which includes 15 essays written by scientists on their respective areas of Earth science. The overarching theme: “…it is essential that Earth scientists and society interact in mutually beneficial ways[...]it is also crucial that Earth scientists are excited and inspired by science in its [...]
It doesn’t take a scientist to tell you that Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has a drug problem. Junkies can be seen shooting up in alleys, high on street corners, and selling dope to fellow junkies. In addition the obvious threat of death by drug overdose, drug users face issues of HIV and Hepatitis virus [...]
Thermodynamics
Ok – one word, five syllables, first two syllables…
[crudely embodying the second law? source]
Dr. Ng jokingly challenged last week’s class to attempt “thermodynamics” in charades while covering it in lecture. After he said that, a version of the following went through my head: a set [...]
For the past 10 months I have been the AMS Executive Coordinator of Student Services, a position that has challenged my thinking, expanded my vision, greatly improved my communication and problem solving skills, and generally, helped me to learn and develop in ways I previously hadn’t thought possible. In a few short weeks my term [...]
Patents are great: they provide a unique look at both the scientific and sociological context of a given time, by way of the problems being solved, how they were being solved, and tracing how scientific discoveries are incorporated into the products we use (and just as importantly, don’t use). Simultaneously, they perhaps also provide a [...]
A quick search for “Without Borders” turned up the following 177 serious organizations:
Doctors Without Borders Action Without Borders Careers Without Borders Teachers Without Borders Words Without Borders Mothers Without Borders Engineers Without Borders Reporters Without Borders Designers Without Borders Lawyers Without Borders Builders Without Borders Sociologists Without Borders Libraries Without Borders Librarians Without Borders [...]
Most spam letters try to appeal to either your hunger for fame/glory/endless amounts of real-cash-now or pluck at your heart strings, playing a sad little violin whose notes beget notions of sorrow for [...]
In my hunt for things to incorporate in a lecture later today, I came across this great video (Ma and Pa Kettle) on the mathematics divide.
In the end, I won’t actually be using it, but hey, I wonder if it also feels about right to those continually addressing the skeptics.
[Original source; Hat Tip - OIIFTG]
I really like this graph for two reasons:
It does a great job representing the current warming trend over time (i.e. there is little confusion over statements like, “Yea, but I always hear it was this warm/cold back in yadda-year”). It becomes [...]
SENSibility 8: The Supercarrot
A genetically engineered carrot has been developed in the US that greatly increases human absorption of the calcium within the vegetable. I am not making this up. A gene has been altered to allow the calcium in the carrot to flow through the plant membranes and out into the digestive tract. The whole idea is [...]
It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
Talking zeitgeists – the whole we’re all gonna die mentality that is somewhat prevalent in the culture of global issues. Here the talk was to break it down a bit (why do these feelings exist), and also bring up two concrete instances where we’ve already been there, done that.
(Click on the movie [...]
For our first lecture in ASIC 200 we decided to define “global” in our respective contexts (Allen in the humanities, and myself in the sciences). This was kind of hard for me, since if I were to look at that word from a purely empirical data driven angle, it would be hard to talk about [...]
*Just buy these chocolate bars:
The label reads:
REDUCING YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT TASTIER!
Put your feet up and treat yourself while treating our planet better. After all, it’s the only one with chocolate on it.
CONTAINS: 3.5oz of feel good all [...]
Saving the Environment
You’re at a vegetarian restaurant with Julie, the hippie chick from your fitness club. It’s your first date, and things are going nicely when, across the room, there’s a loud clank of silverware. You glance over and see the environment stagger away from its table, grasping its throat.
A seemingly endless moment passes as [...]
This year’s AMS elections have kicked off to an intense start. Up for grabs are all five AMS executive portfolios, two student seats on the UBC Board of Governors (the highest university goiverning body), and five student seats on the UBC Senate (the highest academic governing body). The all-candidates meeting was held Friday, and [...]
An Apocalypse (just for kicks)
Our vows have been long since forgotten, and she has exhausted her patience. Through shearing and tainting and scarring she continued to provide. With increasing frequency and decreasing respect, her treasures were adopted as ours: earth, air, water.
At first she cried and bled. Rivers hungry for bigger and better banks escaped their ancient [...]
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I move to have the sanctity of the Oscar Awards ceremony placed within the Millennium Development Goals.
Well, maybe not. It’s just that… is it me, or is this Oscar (will it happen will it not?) thing everywhere in the news these days? There’s such media saturation that it brought to mind the following thought I had the other day.
Say I was an alien coming down to Earth, and [...]