Annually, the UBC Student Leadership Conference (SLC) is a venue where over 1,100 students come together to connect and learn. Conference highlights from last year included a keynote address by Stephen Lewis and featured presentations by: Charlene Easton, Peter Busby, Hannah Taylor, and Terry’s very own Dave Ng, to mention [...]
Panda tours the CK Choi Building. One of the greenest of the green…
And now for your viewing pleasure… A Panda and the CK Choi Building (super green building!)
PART I
The Squamish Nation Traditional Territory is located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. The territory has a total area of 673, 540 hectares and includes the area from Point Grey to Roberts Creek and north to the Elaho River including all of the islands in the Howe Sound and the Squamish valley. [...]
The world kicked off an hour of darkness this weekend to raise global awareness of humanity’s excess energy consumption. The event started off last year as over 2 million Sydney residents and the Sydney Opera house went lights out for one hour in hopes of answering the following question:
How can we inspire people [...]
Please make Banterist your one-stop source for potentially obscure, Harry Potter, Star Trek and Moonraker-related political humor.
(Re-printed with permission. See Brian Sack‘s original post at his website The Banterist. Also highly recommend, The Nigerian Email Experiment)
Scrap Your Car – Buy A Hybrid…or a bus pass, or a bike.
First off, I had no idea this program existed (perhaps because I don’t drive):
The Scrap-It Program is working to improve Lower Mainland air quality by getting older, high-polluting vehicles off the road.
Trade your qualifying vehicle for one of these incentives.
Gordon Campbell (BC’s premier for all your non BCrs) announced yesterday [...]
Get your tickets to the AMS Block Party! This April 11th event (last day of classes) is held by UBC students, for UBC students and the campus community. It is intended as a safe and festive event that will bring the students and friends together in a celebration of a year completed and [...]
Protesters are at it again this weekend at the Vancouver Public Library. This week, a rather large group (~200) of pro-China protesters gathered at the Northwest entrance, wearing white t-shirts with “Anti Riot and Explore The Truth” on their backs, and held the banners, “Human rights≠ riots” and “Stop media distortion”. They chanted [...]
Boy, talk about consumption. Great music video featuring the digital art prowess of Chris Jordan.
I’ll follow suit with Allen’s previous post about the sort of questions that might be thrown at you for the science portion of the ASIC200 final exam.
Essentially, the science section will be about 6 short answer questions done within a timeframe of about 1 hour. Both topics (climate change and GMOs will be [...]
From the deep, damp dungeons of the Google Laboratories comes “Google Suggest”:
Our algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. An example of [...]
OK, so these are not real, and probably belong on the ASIC 200 page, not the main Terry page. But what the heck!
For ASIC 200 students, these are examples of the kinds of questions you will encounter on the final exam for the social sciences and humanities section. Dave will be posting up some [...]
Enough of the serious, and onto the unserious – the internet, and stuff:
Popularity of net-speak: lol wins! wtf and omg come in at a close second, while rofl and lmao aren’t doing well at all…
How about internet memes?
(see the show here – go to video 6)
Just got back from some time off, where my wife (Kate) and I had a week to explore the city of New York. It was the first time for us, and it was a pretty busy week where we tried to fit in [...]
(This program is made possible in part by a grant from American World Corporation: “Meeting tomorrow’s energy needs, TODAY!”)
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(On screen is a montage of public parks and backyard barbeques.)
Voice over: It’s a warm spring day. Gathered at the parks and picnic grounds across America, families are cooking meat [...]
This Easter, I expected to witness intense Christian fervor and devotion. Instead I found a rather unexpected source of regional tourism.
Riding up the mountainous road that leads to Harissa this past Sunday, I encountered few cars. I anxiously wondered whether I had been misadvised. One of my guides indicated that the small town hosted [...]
My department’s very own Prof. Douw Steyn will be addressing the Vancouver Institute this Saturday (Mar 29), at 8:15pm in Instructional Hall 2 of Woodward Instructional Resource Center (directions here). Prof Steyn is an atmospheric scientist in the department of Earth and Ocean Science at UBC, whose research (among other [...]
How would you feel if you were required to pay higher premiums, or worse yet – denied coverage – if an insurance agency found you were “more likely” than the average human being to acquire a particular disease? What if you were denied a job you applied for because you were genetically predisposed for heart [...]
..after 5 bloody hours, that is.
This is as bizarre as it is amazing. A top tantrik or “black magician” in India was made a fool of earlier this month when he failed to kill an atheist on national television using his artful methods.
On 3 March 2008, in a popular TV [...]
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Survey Says! American Public Attitudes Towards the Environment
Dr. David M. Konisky from the University of Missouri’s Institute of Public Policy recently released a survey that captures American attitudes towards current environmental issues (pdf here). The results were obtained from a questionnaire sent to 1000 adults as part of the 2007 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES).
At the global and [...]