My friend Ben Cohen passed on these images at the World’s Fair, and I just had to share them. Taken by Sandra Critelli, it’s a picture of a mass migration of stingrays in the Yucatan Peninsula.
It is common belief that there are only two feasible jobs for a science graduate: a teacher, or a researcher. Well, this weekend I found another job possibility for science students.
I was surfing the net and stumbled upon the Canadian Space Agency website. They just had the National Astronaut Recruitment [...]
STEPHANE DION: Well, this is a treat – somebody really famous is in the race. Let me be the first to say that having that awesome soprano voice and being able to hit 4 to 5 octave range is just amazing. I mean that song in Titanic was certainly popular – couldn’t escape [...]
It’s election-time! Don’t like your choices? Think you can do a better job than Harper, Dion or Layton? Well…now is your chance to prove it!
The CBC program, Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister, will be visiting the University of British Columbia on Tuesday, September 16! Graeme Cunningham, a finalist from the 2007 program, will be [...]
Wed Sep 17 12:00 PM
Venue: Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, Room 120, 2202 Main Mall
Mike Celia, Professor of Civil Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option
Princeton civil engineering professor Mike Celia will be giving a talk this Wednesday titled, “Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option”.
For [...]
That would go something like this:
STEPHEN HARPER: Voting for a harpist would be cool. I mean, I’m no classical musician, but that Stephen Harper seems downright magical on the harp – a real virtuoso. His fingers just seem to glide over the strings. His technique and speed are unmatched, and his concentration, you can [...]
Brett MacFarlane over at Think Small has a great event coming up called “Interesting Vancouver.” In many ways, it’s quite similar to our Terry talks, and by proxy the TED conference, but this one aims to focus on the local greatness here in our Vancouver community (and not just UBC specifically, [...]
Check it out! I love the clean effective design of this slideshow. I’ve been thinking about good slideshow presentations now that teaching term has started up again. Here at Terry* we’ve also been thinking about what makes a good talk in preparation for our Terry talks event. Wouldn’t it be great, if all your [...]
UPDATE: Reuters has picked up the story. According to their report:
But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks associated with it spread rapidly through the media.
In east India, thousands of people rushed to temples to pray and fast while others savored their favorite foods [...]
When I finished my exams this April I was exhausted and uninspired when it came to my academic future. After a few weeks of brain bed rest my inner science geek took over once again. I ordered some non-fiction books from amazon.ca and I downloaded [...]
As there are a lot sciencey people in this community, I thought I would ask for some thoughts on the Large Hadron Collider, which will be launched tomorrow from “deep underground the Swiss-French border.”
The goal of the project, headed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), is evidently to re-create conditions that may [...]
A couple things converging here. Namely, the exterior painting of my home (a nice rustic red colour), and the Beijing Olympic games. As well, you find that household paints these days have the most luxurious names ever, so I figure why not use pollution as an inspiration (the smog in Beijing seems to be all [...]
Today, as part of my departmental monthly newsletter, I received a note about the Department of Homeland Security. If you were unaware, over the past few months, DHS has been empowered to review, copy, or straight out withhold any electronic equipment (think laptops, external drives, iphones, cell phones, etc.) on your way through the border. [...]
Thanks to Portland based artist Michael Paulus, we need no longer wonder. Paulus has put together a series of pen and ink drawings depicting what a number of famous cartoon characters’ skeletons might look like. My favorite is Fred Flintstone:
Are there any medical types out there who could diagnose dear Freddy’s [...]
Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god (hat tip to Sean at Cosmic Variance).
Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars: How fast could Usain Bolt have run?
Physicists in Oslo are awesome.
From the paper’s abstract:
Since that very memorable day at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, a [...]
You get asked some pretty crazy questions, when you’re wearing an “Ask Me” button. The craziest I got today was, “What should I do with this $100 bill that I just found?” No kidding. Needless to say, it was an interesting conversation.
Another interesting question that I got today was, “So, what are the [...]
SWARM is as it sounds – two frenzied nights of visual and mental stimuli from Vancouver’s visual arts community, it is mixed with food, sound, and drink and spread across out fair city – from Mount Pleasant to Gastown. It’s always a lot of fun, and chalk full of great local artists and their [...]
(by Vince LiCata and reprinted from the SCQ)
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Travelling back home this summer, I made the marvelous discovery that a new novel has been published the 44 Scotland Street series! The name of the book is The World According to Bertie, and I actually yelped for joy in the Heathrow airport Borders bookshop when I saw it on the shelf. It’s not as [...]
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The Annotated Fuld -or- Lehman Employees Respond to Bankruptcy in Creative Way -or- “This Sucks”
Many of you are likely somewhat familiar with the mortgage fiasco currently underway in the United States. This year alone, the USG has bailed out three major banks using tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. However, from now on it looks like US banks are stuffed:
When Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. flew to New [...]