Things to do on a boat, by David Semeniuk.
Spend 3 days waiting to go to sea. Surf the net for three days while waiting to go to sea. Eat freshly baked cookies for three days while waiting to go to sea. Go through your entire ration of exquisite coffee for three days while waiting [...]
The ceremonies are over, the gowns are returned, photos developed and your parents aren’t that proud of you anymore. Now comes the time for many, many of us to sit down in front of the computer or hover that giant Sharpie pen over the newspaper, and look for someone who is brave enough to hire [...]
This Wednesday I’ll be heading out on a three week research cruise to the northeastern sub-Arctic Pacific Ocean – or roughly somewhere around here:
The arrow marks Station P, or Papa: the station farthest east along a 1400km track – Line P – starting at the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Station P [...]
Carl Linnaeus, the oft-considered grandfather of biological taxonomy would be turning 301 years old today had he been a superhero, or a demon, or a Redwood. If he were alive today and had he just written System Naturae, I would have sent him the following birthday card.
Front Picture: Bobo the clown’s head
Front [...]
“It is our moral obligation to protect the defenseless.”
– Simon Jackson
Recently, I met Simon Jackson. I really enjoy connecting with people, especially leaders who inspire others. You know the kind of person…
An activist with a passion for their cause and an energy that is contagious. After chatting with [...]
Biodiversity, Food Security, and Mr. Potato Head
Today, 22 May 2008, is the International Day for Biological Diversity. Happy Biodiversity Day, everyone!
I’m sure you’re just like me, and when you think about biodiversity, you picture amazon rain forests full of tropical flowers, crazy insects, and colorful birds. I know the last thing that I’m going to think [...]
The past week has been packed. At the end of this month, I will be heading out to sea for three weeks. Going to sea may sound fun,but it really means packing up a laboratory, and fitting it in a small space allotted to you on a boat. It also means preparing everything you could [...]
I’ve got a piece up at the SCQ today, which is (another) failed attempt at publishing at Seed’s print magazine. Here, a few months back, I was asked to have a go at their “Why I do Science” section but in the end it wasn’t for the editors.
Overall, it sounded like they were [...]
This post was inspired by leaking, sneezing, and a very confused immune system.
Hello Spring, Fall, come in, have a seat. So, here’s the deal – I already love Summer and Winter very, very much. They both have things to love. You two, however, have many undesirable qualities. For example, Fall – [...]
- file this under “+1 for spectacular use of scientific language” -
I signed up for The Scientist a while back. Recently, I received this email:
LOOKING FOR A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP?
And finding the world is a crowded petri dish?
It’s not always easy to find that certain person for a [...]
Graffiti, Animation, Art? – I’m confused and very excited.
My recent crude espousal of stop-motion animation with my own toolbox led me to discovering a wonderful artist working in Argentina: Blu. His work appears to be heavily subverted by the anxiety arising from modern technological development, societal norms, and spotted with images of introspection. Anyways, the artist’s website is chalk full [...]
I have to admit, I don’t read very much.
That isn’t true. I read so much (primary science literature) that I no longer want to read when I don’t have to. Seven years ago, university attached itself to the mental teat responsible for feeding my curiosity of fictional literature. Six years later, [...]
The Huffington Post has created an interactive database of every donation made to the 2008 US presidential candidates that you can peruse at your own leisure. For example, here’s Berkeley, California:
If funding is taken as any indication for support, it isn’t surprising to see a largely blue screen (and the 30 [...]
As convocation is a few weeks away for some of us, I was joking with a friend if they will play Pomp & Circumstance in the Chan. Then the conversation dissolved into naming bizarre theme songs for the ceremony. Here are some honourable mentionables:
Cycling for Everyone
The City Program at Simon Fraser University is presenting this free public talk by Dr. John Pucher of Rutgers University.
Cycling for Everyone: Lessons for Vancouver from the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany
May 15, 2008, 7 pm
Venue: Segal Graduate School of Business Building, 500 Granville Street, Vancouver ( corner [...]
It’s the end of the semester; classes are over, marking is done, and my office is a sty:
This always happens – a flurry of the previous 4 months can be viewed in one photo*: among other things, I count papers for three classes and my thesis, three large catalogues used to order [...]
Back in February, I first read about a proposal from the Institute of Creation Science that advocated the Texas government to approve an accreditation request for an MSc in Creation Science education. Last December, education officials approved the plan, and it went to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Academic Excellence and Research Committee.
[...]
I’ve been scooped! From the Tyee:
The director of a Vancouver non-profit urban-agriculture group suggests that the eat-local movement may have reached a new tipping point.
“There is definitely a buzz and an interest,” observes City Farmer’s Michael Levenston. “We are busy seven days a week; our classes are full, our phone is [...]
Pangea Day, organized by T.E.D. Conferences, (see www.pangeaday.org) arrives on May 10, 2008 with a live 4-hour broadcast from Los Angeles, Rio, London, Cairo, Kigali, Mumbai, bringing the world together through the medium of film. With 24 Nokia competition-winning short films, music performances, and comments from speakers like CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Queen [...]
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Is BC Ferries Guilty of Greenwashing?
After spending 8+ hours loading, unloading, moving, hosing, smashing, fixing, taping, more taping, and more hosing, all of our ship-y science-y things were in order yesterday for the upcoming research expedition. On the ferry ride home, I noticed something that was potentially dubious:
What do you think – this may or may not [...]