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The current cost to taxpayers of a single homeless person in Vancouver: $55,000
The possible cost to taxpayers to house a single homeless person in Vancouver: $37,000
According to a study co-authored by SFU, UBC, and UofC analysts (via Vancouver Sun):
The report calculated that a [...]
The Economist has an interesting article (via Jordan at NP) on the future of Wikipedia:
But Wikipedia is facing an identity crisis as it is torn between two alternative futures. It can either strive to encompass every aspect of human knowledge, no matter how trivial; or it can adopt a more stringent editorial [...]
So, I bought some lettuce this morning:
Starting from the left, we have radicchio, chicory, and the sad looking plant on the right? That’s arugula. All will (hopefully) grow on my balcony over the summer, and provide some zest to a boring leaf lettuce salad.
You [...]
No doubt, you are all aware of the bizarre dimensions of an anatomically correct Barbie Doll.
But what about the pundit of porkgrinds, the sultan of stupidity – Homer Jay Simpson?
President Stephen Toope knows how to dance!
Yes, its true. I know you didn’t expect it, but in addition to his impressive list of accomplishments in the field of international and human rights law, the president of UBC can also dance. More importantly, he took time out of his busy schedule to sit down and talk to Terry about his role as [...]
1. An ad campaign for a flat screen tv where the product is displayed next to a girl with a small chest and with the slogan: “Flat and Proud”
2. The attempts to hide tanks behind camouflage in the middle of the city. Especially when those tanks never change their location. I’ve been told [...]
Professor John Anthony Allan, Terry* Salutes You!
The Sotckholm Water Prize, often considered the ‘Nobel Prize” of the environmental sciences, was awarded to Professor John Anthony Allan this year for his innovative “Virtual Water” concept. According to the Stockholm International Water Institute press release:
Professor Allan pioneered the development of key concepts in the understanding and communication of water [...]
What are the ethics and what is the impact of volunteering abroad?
Sociology 435 provides students an opportunity to deepen their formal preparation for citizenship through a field placement in a ‘developing’ country. A key goal of this course is to integrate classroom-based instruction and experiential learning, by connecting theoretical knowledge to everyday practices through [...]
Keeping in tow with my last post and last week’s ASIC class, Respectful Insolence has a great article on the (un)scientific arguments made by animal rights activists. Here’s an excerpt:
What I am going to discuss is the seemingly scientific arguments that some opponents of animal research and animal rights activists like to invoke, [...]
For those of us leaving campus soon, here I am again promoting the hell out of things I think is worth doing before graduation – item #139: see a movie at the Norm Theatre:
The line up for the next few weeks? Oscar Nights.
The Kite Runner
No Country for Old Men
[...]
I hadn’t heard of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad until I walked into what felt like a Terry Gilliam movie brought to life:
The music was reminiscent of Aquarela do Brazil sans the Spanish and brass section. Suspended 2 and 3 stories above me were six performers of the Aeriosa Dance [...]
UBC Realities of Race is a week long series of events, which takes place annually at UBC during the week of March 21st, the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. Realities of Race seeks to heighten the awareness of racism among UBC faculty, staff, students and the wider community by providing a space to [...]
Food is a big issue these days – none more so than in Richmond (at this very moment). This letter, in case it’s not clear being part of a Terry blog, is not a UBC or a Terry thing – just a personal thing.
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To: GCL Public Hearings, Richmond, BC
Attn: [...]
I just discovered this:
The second year of The Winter Farmer’s Market is almost at an end; there are only 3 more dates set before the summer farmer’s market begins in June. I loved going to my local farmer’s market when I was growing up (for all the wrong [...]
What Google Earth Revealed
Two years later in an ergonomic chair I flew across the screen to gaze again at the blur where I had lived. Two eyes disunbelieving: the town, that time shown from above in all its complex clarity.
Google Earth showed, and did not show, the road into town. The middle of nowhere is [...]
Attention All “19 Years Old or Older”s – The Gov. BC Wants Your Climate Logo
The BC government announced a contest today for students 19 years of age and older:
British Columbia design students are being invited to compete to create a new logo for the government’s LiveSmart BC climate action programs, Premier Gordon Campbell announced today.
“Our goal is to tap into the creative energy and [...]
MTV did it again, really has a finger on the pulse of the generation; we finally have a development reality show:
http://www.freethechildren.com/filemobile/homepage_videos.html
(it’s the first video in the list - watch it tonight – if you have MTV – if you have a television)
Is this a good thing?
My initial dry heaving suggests, no, this is [...]
Today marks both Big E’s birthday bonanza and Pi day (3.14, get it?), so a group of physicists have dubbed March 14 “Talk Like A Physicist Day“. I’ve decided to use “field” and “boson” in every one of conversations today. Luckily, keeping with science humor puns and my oceanography background, “boson” [...]
No, you didn’t fall asleep in March to awake in early November. It’s March 14, and another story is unfolding in the United States after New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced his sudden departure from office.
In case you’ve been dozing, here’s what happened: the Governor was known as a crusading, do-gooder knight in shining [...]
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SENSibility 9: The Old Ice is Leaving Us
More news from the global “uh oh” file.
There is evidence that the old, thick ice of the arctic is melting away faster than previously thought. Ice that is more than two years old used to make up 60 percent of the arctic ice pack. Now, ice that is more than two years old makes [...]