In recent decades, the search for alternative energies has become increasingly important to the average citizen. Whether it’s due to concerns for the environment or worries about shortages in fuel or rising prices, most people agree that other options need to be found. Considering the amazing amount of energy that is showered down upon [...]
Just a heads up that there are still apparently a few tickets left to the inaugural Interesting Vancouver event (the evening of Friday, Oct 24th). This is sort of maneuvered as a local TED-ish (but without the hype and price tag) conference. They’ve got a pretty interesting speaker line-up (including myself), and [...]
On recommendation by a friend, I recently watched the original Zeitgeist, a doccumentry that touched on topics like religion, economics and 9/11. It was pretty eye-opening, and although most of the ideas I had already known about, I hadn’t seen them presented so effectively before.
On Oct 3, the addenum (sort of like an appendix [...]
Well, it took a while to formally announce this, but here are the winners to last season’s writing challenge. Check out the links, and see what sort of material the Terry site is always on the hunt for.
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UBC Creative:
1st: ““Little Hike” By Vania Chan
2nd: ““When [...]
When I signed on to join the Terry blogging team, I was told to introduce myself to you guys in my first post. So, hi. I’m Sarah, long-time lurker, first time blogger. Current science student, potential mad scientist/med school hopeful/interpretive dancer, depending on how things go.
One of the more interesting things: I sometimes moonlight [...]
Hey all,
Just wanted to introduce myself – the name’s Alvin. I’m a fledgling blogger here on Terry, and just wanted to say hi and to let everyone know who who I am. I’ve recently graduated from UBC with a BSc in Biology, and I’m sort of in that “limbo land” of figuring out what [...]
Just a note to say that James Orbinski tickets are now available for pick up at the Chan Centre Box Office. Currently, tickets are limited to UBC students, staff, and faculty (please bring ID), and there is a limit to 2 per person. If you’re interested in getting a block of tickets, do [...]
Here, at Totem Park (one of the many residences at UBC), we have a little publication called the Totem Times. In the October issue there were two completely unofficial and unscientific polls concerning the upcoming elections in Canada and the USA.
The first poll was “Who will win the US Presidential Election?” 90% said Obama, [...]
% Voter turnout for 2008 Canadian Election: 51
% Voter turnout for 2004 Afghan Election: 70 (source)
% Voter turnout for 2005 Iraqi Election: 80 (source)
A recap for those of you who have yet to attend one of our amazing lectures!
Adventures in Science is a speaker series put on by the Biophysics Student Society. We are hosting researchers from all corners of science to come to UBC, on a bi-weekly basis, to [...]
Did anyone else go to the Sheldon Solomon talk last week?
Was it just me, or did it feel like Yuk-Yuks for thinkers of Kierkegaard, tight-jeaned hipsters, the introspectively abused, and/or wandering graduate students?
I think that’s what filled the room, not necessarily his research on terror management or death anxiety. It doesn’t take 26 [...]
Wade Davis in the house, Oct 27th, 11am at the Freddy Wood.
Wade Davis is cool. As close to a real life Indiana Jones as you can find. He is a noted author, anthropologist, and has one of the greatest jobs ever – he is a National Geographic Explorer. He’s also one of the nicest persons I’ve met and was as gracious as can be when he [...]
6:11am – Waking up. Fuck, I’m tired and I’m, oh no. There’s a wad of turkey meat slumbering away in the pit of my stomach. Second dinner at one o’clock this morning was a bad idea after all. Second dessert was, however, delicious.
Alright, lets go Dave. Move it. Shower time. This voting thingy is [...]
Manea’s dream is to go back to Romania and find his mother. He smiles inside his beard, looking upward. Manea is currently homeless and thinks his mother may be dead, or worse, she may not remember him.
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Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to [...]
Polls open from 7am to 7pm, October 14th (today). That’s all.
(You don’t need a card like the above – just your ID and you’ll need to figure out your electoral address. Details here – just type in your postal code).
120 big names on the Canadian climate change research front (six of whom are at UBC) signed a letter last week urging Canadians to strategically vote for the environment. The letter opens with:
We have been disturbed by what we perceive to be a lack of attention to the environment during this election campaign. [...]
While I was waiting for some acid to dissolve some stuff, I decided to grab a coffee and loiter around the UBC bookstore’s magazine section this afternoon. I came across this beaut of a title from the latest Scientific American:
Do you think a title that begin with “Forget the Big Bang” might instill [...]
In the blogging world, “delurking” is an invitation for blog readers to say hello in the comments section. This is interesting to us, because this website happens to get a pretty decent readership, but we’ve noticed that the comments have been a little sparser this past year.
Hmmm… so do we have more readers, but [...]
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STAND for Housing
Are you concerned about the increasing levels of homelessness in Vancouver? What about the fact that the government is not keeping the social housing promise it made when it accepted the 2010 Olympic bid?
This Saturday, there is a big STAND for housing at the Vancouver City Hall. Here`s the link to the facebook event, [...]